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09.01.2020 | The RLS Graduate School has taken up its work at the RLI. For four years, the team will research questions related to the energy system transition. Four grants were awarded by the Reiner Lemoine Foundation. Marlin Arnz, Anya Heider, Alexandra Krumm and Ricardo Reibsch were selected as doctoral candidates. Philipp Blechinger is head...

09.01.2020 | The expansion of renewable energy and the integration of the energy sectors (heat, mobility, gas) will place further demands on the electricity grid. These include the expansion and restructuring of the grid at several grid levels. The effects of sector coupling on the power grid are being looked at in the context of...

09.12.2019 | In a large practical trial with 63 StreetScooters WORK XL at a distribution centre of the Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL) in Kleinmachnow near Berlin, the management of the loading processes from the network operator’s point of view is being tested for the first time. The aim is to develop procedures for intelligent...

28.11.2019 | Science, technology and innovation play a major role in shaping our societies. Therefore, research teams must address societal challenges by reaching out beyond their own communities, gathering everyone “around one table”. One way to do this is by organising dialogue events, called “Mobilisation and Mutual Learning” (MML). The GRECO project has performed six...

15 October 2019 | Reiner Lemoine is one of the pioneers in the field of renewable energy. He built up several innovative companies with friends and business partners. In a documentary entitled “Fuck commercialism, let’s do something real” Horst Frebel has retraced the life and work of Reiner Lemoine. In interviews and numerous original recordings,...

08 October 2019 | A workshop on open-source tools at the RLI took place on 02 October as part of a delegation trip from Indonesia. Katrin Lammers, who works in the RLI research area Off-Grid Systems, presented the open-source tools (oemof, excel tools) developed by the RLI. The open-source approach met with great interest among...

02 October 2019 | The more than 300 referenced arguments are designed as an interactive ArguMap and are intended to generate a low-threshold access to the current state of scientific knowledge and to bring together different competing views in a clear and comprehensive way. In an argumentation analysis of the debate on alternative propulsion, we...

Mascha Richter and Ludwig Hülk of the RLI research unit Transformation of Energy Systems participated in the final project meeting in Brussels on 16.07.2019 and presented the public relations work and the project database developed by the RLI. With the completion of the EU research project REEEM, the RLI has published the majority of the...

04 September 2019 | The energy transition has stalled. To overcome the problems, the energy system as a whole must be reformed. This is shown by a new study by the Reiner Lemoine Foundation (RLS). In the study, the authors get to the bottom of the structural barriers of the transformation. To this end, the...

Organized jointly by the RLI and the Chair of Economic and Infrastructure Policy (WIP) at the TU Berlin, the first summer school on “Sustainable energy access and renewable energy” took place from 5-17 August 2019 as part of the California-Berlin Research and Exchange Plus (C-BEAR+) program sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and...