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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...

September 7th 2018 – Organized by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), in collaboration with the Institute of British Geographers, the RGS’ Annual International Conference took place at Cardiff University from August 28th – 31st 2018. 1,700 participants from more than 50 countries exchanged views on various geographic research topics within a total of 370 sessions, focusing...

July 17th, 2018 – Philipp Blechinger , Head of the Research Field Off-Grid Systems at RLI was accepted as a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). The AGYA is a cooperation existing since 2013 between the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. It is the...

July 11th 2018 – A delegation of Reiner Lemoine Institute visited the Philippine capital Manila in context of the EnerPHIL Project. The first symposium on German-Philippine exchange on the Energy Transition on June 13th 2018 was the highlight of the week. It was organized by RLI in cooperation with the University of the Philippines, supported...

July 3rd 2018 – The European research project Fostering a Next GeneRation of European Photovoltaic SoCiety through Open Science (GRECO) has started with a kick-off meeting in Madrid. Berit Müller, Head of the RLI Research Field Transformation von Energiesystemen represented the RLI. A total of eleven organizations, institutes, and universities from all over Europe work...

June 15th 2018 – How can all parties involved in the German Energy Transition be allowed to participate in planning processes? This question is being researched by the Reiner Lemoine Institute together with the Energieavantgarde Anhalt e. V. as part of the Kopernikus project ENavi. On May 23rd and 24th , the first workshops on...

A delegation of three RLI researchers – Catherina Cader, Kathrin Goldammer, and Philipp Blechinger – has been travelling to the USA from April 16th to 20th for a joint workshop with the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) at the University of California, Berkeley. The workshop brought together experts from the energy and digital sectors...

March 1st 2018 | The new RLI research project SzenarienDB was kicked-off at a meeting on February 25th. The aim of the project, expected to run for three years, is to develop a publicly accessible database for scenario data. In energy systems research, the term scenarios describes the input data, assumptions on future developments, and...