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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...

August 1st 2020 | From now on, an orientation guide is available to everyone who wants to set up charging points in public spaces: The specification DIN SPEC 91433, which provides a standardized guideline for planning and setting up charging infrastructure for battery-electric vehicles. The DIN SPEC provides an overview of the complete process of...

July 14th 2020 | In a discussion paper, the Berlin think tank Agora Verkehrswende calls on cities and municipalities to push the construction and distribution of charging points for the rapidly growing number of electric vehicles more strongly than before. The paper was produced with the support of Reiner Lemoine Institute and shows that an...

July 9th 2020 | Elena van Hove from Arizona State University and Jess Kersey from UC Berkeley have joined the Off-Grid Team on July 1st, as guest researchers in the transatlantic C-BEAR+ Program. Both have already participated in the RLI Summer School in summer 2019 and are now continuing their collaboration in the form of...

10.07.2020 | Yesterday’s kick-off meeting of the consortium marks the start of the three-year research and development project PeopleSuN. PeopleSuN stands for “People Power: Optimizing Off-Grid Electricity Supply Systems in Nigeria” and aims to improve access to reliable and sustainable energy in previously underserved regions in Nigeria. Access to electricity for all is a Sustainable...

03.07.2020 | What does a good software tool that enables the planning and design of energy cells look like? How can sector coupling be included and how can data management be improved? And how can this be done following scientific standards, user-friendliness and be transparent and reproducible? This was discussed by energy system experts in...

15.06.2020 | The newly launched project website of the research project eGon offers an overview of the project contents and the different network planning tools. eGon ties in with the completed research project open_eGo and examines the effects of sector coupling on the German power grid. After the research project open_eGo focused on network expansion,...