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May 31, 2021 | Editha Kötter, Head of the RLI Research Unit Transformation of Energy Systems is supporting the “The Citizen Assembly On Climate” in its 8th meeting on June 5, 2021 as a fact checker. She is supporting the Citizen Assembly as an expert to develop recommendations on how Germany can achieve the goals...

May 28, 2021 | In cooperation with the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), the Reiner Lemoine Institute hosted its first conference on climate change and climate justice in November 2020. A particular focus of the conference “Interconnected voices: Climate change, equity, and the way forward” was on bringing as many diverse voices...

May 26, 2021 | Reiner Lemoine Institute has written down its corporate values in the form of a charter, thus affirming its will to create a positive working environment for all employees of the institute. At the same time, the RLI has signed the “Diversity Charter”, thus committing to the company’s goal of promoting diversity...

May 21, 2021 | The RLS Graduate School at RLI will be expanded starting in 2022. For this purpose, the Reiner Lemoine Foundation announces two new PhD scholarships. Interested applicants can apply for a scholarship until the end of August. The focus is on research work on the transformation of the energy system. “Everywhere you...

March 30, 2021 | RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer is a member of the four-person jury of a competition within the framework of the “Masterplan Solarcity”, which is awarded by the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy, and Industry. Here, outstanding Berlin solar projects are awarded two prizes. The aim of the competitions is to...

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...