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March 26, 2021 | With its first meeting on March 23, 2021, the advisory board in the project “BEST – Blockchain-based Decentralized Energy Market Design and Management Structures” takes up its work. Twelve advisory board members working in the fields of blockchain, energy management, grid operations, energy supply, and associations, are supporting the project and...

March 3 2021 | Norman Pieniak, Head of the RLI Research Unit Mobility with Renewable Energy has won the Award of the consulting company Energieforen Leipzig in the category “Most active science partner – particularly practice-oriented commitment to our members”. Norman accepted the award during the virtual 10th annual congress “Energy Market of the Future”...

March 1, 2021 | RLI supports the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg (MWAE) and the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Business (SenWEB) in issuing a roadmap to initiate the development of a hydrogen economy for the state of Brandenburg and the capital region. Specifically, RLI is leading...

19 February 2021 | Marlin Arnz, PhD student in the “EnergieSystemWende” Graduate School of the Reiner Lemoine Foundation, has won the “Clean Mobility Award” of the German Railway Industry Association (VDB). Every year, the VDB awards the Clean Mobility Award to three young academics whose innovative scientific work makes an outstanding contribution to more climate...

February 9, 2021 | Setu Pelz, researcher in the RLI Off-Grid Systems Unit at RLI is the winner of the annual Peccei Award for participants of the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP), hosted by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Setu was selected for the 2020 summer program and conducted a...

January 29, 2021 | The research project “BEST – Blockchain-based decentralized energy market design and management structures” began in January 2021 with a virtual kick-off meeting of the project partners. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the three-year project will investigate how blockchain technology can best be used to trade...

January 25, 2021 | The research project “ADVANTAGE – Automatic Inductive Charging of Autonomous Electric Vehicles in Logistics and Transport” started at the RLI in December 2020. This project aims at finding out more about how the charging processes of e-vehicles in public transport can be integrated into autonomous driving. Autonomous driving can be an...

January 12, 2021 | Reiner Lemoine Institute was granted the status of a non-governmental organization in the USA at the beginning of the year. After having passed an Equivalency Determination process, RLI is listed as a non-profit NGO in the US registry “NGOSource” for the year 2021. This will allow RLI to participate more easily...

20 January 2021 | During a workshop today, the team of the research project SzenarienDB presented an extension of the Open Energy Platform (OEP) to the public. The extension contains a collection of open scenario data – all data related to one scenario calculation for the Energy Transition accumulated. Goal of SzenarienDB project achieved After...

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...