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Hamburg/Berlin, march 10. 2022  |  Decentralized electrolysers improve the energy yield from wind and solar plants, make our energy system more resilient and save grid expansion costs. This is shown by a new study conducted by the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) on behalf of the eco-energy cooperative Green Planet Energy eG (formerly Greenpeace Energy). Such...

March 8, 2022 | At the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), every day is International Women’s Day – for all employees. The institute’s employees work in engineering and for energy research just as much as for gender equality and more visibility for women in science. In this way, the RLI is ahead of this years International...

March 04, 2022 | On February 27, the Brandenburg Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Climate Protection published the interim report for the Brandenburg Climate Plan. The results show: A continuation of emission trends would miss the target of achieving climate neutrality in Brandenburg by 2045 at the latest. On behalf of the ministry, a consortium...

February 8^th, 2022 | The Reiner Lemoine Institute turns twelve. Since its founding on February 8, 2010, the institute’s staff has been committed to a future with 100 percent renewable energies. Twelve years of RLI, that now means: three research areas, more than 100 employees, guest researchers and scholars, more than a dozen tools and...

December 22nd, 2021 | With RLI managing director Kathrin Goldammer and Anne Schalling, researcher in the RLI research area Mobility with Renewable Energy, the RLI was represented twice at the Cluster Conference Energy Technology Berlin-Brandenburg. The contributions of both of them and all other presentations, workshops and parts of the event are now available to...

December 6th, 2021 | The Baden-Württemberg Minister of the Environment Thekla Walker has appointed RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer to the advisory board for Baden-Württemberg’s hydrogen roadmap. Kathrin’s appointment to the board is initially for two years. The advisory board members will meet twice a year. The advisory board is to support the Baden-Württemberg state...

October 21, 2021 | Catherina Cader, Head of RLI’s Research Unit Off-Grid Systems, is part of the first cohort of AGYLE, an African-German Young Leaders network. AGYLE brings together young African and German leaders from the fields of business, politics, media, and international cooperation in a long-term business network. A jury selected a total of...

October 15, 2021 | To achieve its climate targets, Germany must use two percent of its surface for wind energy. But conflicts over site selection for new wind turbines and species protection are currently hampering expansion. The think tank Agora Energiewende has commissioned Reiner Lemoine Institute to develop an online tool that shows where the...

October 1, 2021 | Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) welcomes today’s entry into force of “Redispatch 2.0” as a first important step in the conversion of the energy system to decentralized renewable energy, but still sees a need for addition in the long run. With today’s entry into force of the amendment to the Grid Expansion...

September 14, 2021 | Since 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement has set the marching orders for climate protection. In order to achieve the 1.5° target if possible and at least the 2° target, not only the federal government but also all states and municipalities in Germany must significantly tighten their climate targets. In the new...