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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,...

June 11th 2020 | The first version of the Open Energy Ontology (OEO) is released today. The OEO standardizes the language in energy system analysis, enabling better research in these key areas: It improves exchange between energy system models, the exchange of data and scenarios, and it increases their transparency and re-usability. Ontologies are formal...

June 10th 2020 | Today’s kick-off meeting marks the beginning of the two-year research project UMAS that will investigate the future use of the Berlin Natural Gas Storage Facility, which has been shut down since 2017, as an energy storage facility for electricity from renewable sources. In this project, RLI is modeling the energy system...