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April 10th 2019 | The energy transition can only be achieved together. But how can all interest groups contribute their views and needs to energy transition planning?  Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), together with Energieavantgarde Anhalt e.V. (EAA) has developed a Stakeholder Empowerment Tool (StEmp tool) within the Kopernikus project ENavi, which enables actors in the...

April 1st 2019 | RLI has released a tool for estimating the optimal share of renewable energy resources in an island energy system and introduced it to energy access planning experts in a workshop in Taguig City, Philippines. The Simplified Planning Tool (SPT) has been developed in context of the EU-ASEP project and in cooperation...

March 11th 2019 – Ten days of travelling through Southeast Asia: During the second Travelling Conference (SEA²), a three-member RLI delegation visited Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos from February 7th  to 15th. Their aim was to exchange ideas with local partners on renewable energy for a sustainable energy supply in Southeast Asia. The Travelling Conference is...

March 1st 2019 | One month after the official launch of the Market Master Data Register (MaStR), Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) publishes a first version of the master data for power generation plants in Germany. The register, managed by the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), contains the master data of market players, such as plant operators,...

March 1st 2019 | Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) is a partner in the E-MetroBus research and development project. The project, led by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), aims to test short-time charging under the conditions of the high-frequency bus service in Berlin. While TU Berlin, as a further scientific partner in the project, is responsible for accompanying...

January 16th 2019 | Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) is investigating the potential for charging infrastructure in the Berlin area, starting in January. On behalf of the Berlin Agency for Electromobility (eMO), RLI and Localiser RLI GmbH will analyze, how future charging demand will be distributed across the city. The consortium will be complemented by partners...

January 10th 2019 | RLI is a partner in the Creation of Mobile Metering Charging Points in Public Spaces project, which is being implemented as part of the “Clean Air Immediate Program 2017 to 2020”. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt – DLR), which is the program’s network coordinator, announced today...

November 14th 2018 – In September, the “Energy Modelling Platform for Europe” (EMP-E 2018) took place for the second time. At the EMP-E conference in Brussels, which was organized within the framework of four Horizon 2020 projects of the European Union. The energy system modelers and policy makers had the opportunity to exchange information and...

31. Oktober 2018 – After three years, the open_eGo (Open Electricity Grid Optimization) project was successfully completed in October. Together with the project partners, RLI developed a planning tool for the expansion of power grids. The tool was presented to the approximately one hundred participants from science and industry at a closing workshop at the...

October 2th 2018 – Zakia Soomauroo, PhD candidate at RLI, is currently visiting the United Nations in New York City for a three-week internship by invitation of the Embassy of Mauritius. In this context, she took part in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and attended events in the field of environments and climate. Zakia...