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December 17, 2020 | The Reiner Lemoine Foundation (RLS) Graduate School has published an impulse paper for the election year 2021. The paper, entitled “Setting the Course for the Renewable Energy System”, highlights the issues of flexibility, storage technologies, social participation, and renewable mobility and makes recommendations to policymakers on how to advance the Energy...

November 24, 2020 | RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer is part of the founding team of the network “Women in Green Hydrogen”. This is an international platform for women working and researching in the field of green hydrogen. The associated database of women experts was published today. Increase women’s visibility The initiative was launched by...

November 19, 2020 | How much and, above all, what kind of charging infrastructure for e-mobility needs to be installed in Germany by 2030? This question was investigated by RLI on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) and the National Control Center Charging Infrastructure (Leitstelle Ladeinfrastruktur) under the umbrella of...

November 10th 2020 | To create sustainable access to electricity for people in rural Nigeria, Reiner Lemoine Institute participated in the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP). In this context, a comprehensive data portal for electrification planning for the whole of Nigeria has been created, which was launched today in an official opening ceremony with the...

November 5th 2020 | Oliver Arnhold and the consortium around the DIN SPEC 91433 have won the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Innovator Award 2020. With these awards, DIN honors special projects and commitments in the field of standardization every year. DIN-SPEC 91433 accelerates the setup of charging points Oliver receives the prize in the...

October 28th 2020 | In the project “Solar Study Old Town Spandau”, RLI determined the potential for photovoltaics on the roof surfaces of the Old Town of Spandau. Despite a high proportion of listed buildings, the technical photovoltaic potential of the Old Town of Spandau is up to 2.53 MW. This is the result of...

October 7th 2020 | Since many scientific conferences in 2020 will be held as online events, RLI researchers have recorded a series of lectures and poster sessions as videos, which are available free of charge. CIRED Berlin 2020 Martha Hoffmann, researcher in the RLI-Research Unit Off-Grid Systems, presented an ePoster entitled „Investment Planning in Multi-Vector...

September 25th 2020 | In cooperation with the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), Reiner Lemoine Institute is organizing its first conference on climate change and climate justice. A special focus of the conference is to involve as many different voices and perspectives as possible in the discussion.We are looking forward to receiving...

August 25th 2020 | This week, the first purely electrically driven articulated  buses will launch for daily operation on Berlin’s Bus Route 200 as part of the E-MetroBus research project. At the same time, RLI is publishing an app that will help passengers calculate the carbon footprint of their journey and provide further information on...

August 4th | The federal state of Berlin is to become “pariskonform” by the year 2050 at the latest! In this context, the RLI is investigating the possibilities of the federal state of Berlin for reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector. The Paris Convention is the successor to the Kyoto Protocol. It was signed...