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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...

04.05. | On 29.04.2020 the kick-off workshop of the workshop series in the Netz_eLOG project took place – onlie, due to the current Corona situation. In addition to the project team from e.dis, IAV and DPDHL and staff from the Research Unit Mobility with Renewable Energy at RLI, more than 50 guests participated in the...

23.04. | “Generation Solar” was created as part of the EU research project GRECO. The app serves as a database for solar systems and has many practical functions, such enabling direct exchange between owners of solar systems. The data flows into future research in the field of solar systems and can promote the worldwide expansion...

01.04. | High quality data are important for the modelling and analysis of climate and energy scenarios. Where data are accessible and openly licensed, work with such data becomes more efficient and transparent and this work becomes reproducible. The Open Energy Platform, which is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and...