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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...

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...