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August 19, 2025 | Anna Glaum is a mechanical engineer and spends three months at RLI. She is a trainee at the network operator 50Hertz. As part of a cooperation between the company and RLI, Anna is gaining insights into the research work at RLI during her traineeship. We asked Anna three questions about her...

August 12th 2025 | By 2045, up to 26,000 electric trucks with a total electricity demand of up to 430 GWh per year could be registered in Berlin – this corresponds to the annual consumption of around 100,000 households and requires a strong and sustainable power grid. The charging infrastructure (LIS) in the capital must...

Mascha Richter, head of the RLI research unit Transformation of Energysystems, and Philipp Blechinger, head of the research unit Off-Grid Systems and the Reiner Lemoine Graduate School, are joining the advisory board for the CommunitE Innovation project run by the Alliance for Citizen Energy. As advisory board members, they will advise the project’s management team...

April 28, 2025 | Four years of research, 4,700 households and businesses surveyed, two tools and a knowledge pool: the PeopleSuN project shows what it takes for off-grid solutions to advance sustainable power supply in Nigeria. The PeopleSuN project aimed to improve access to reliable and sustainable energy in previously underserved regions in Nigeria. Researchers...

April 17, 2025 | Guest researcher Bachirou Djibo Boubé from Niger is staying for 6 months at the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI). He supports the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems with the development of electricity demand profiles for remote communities in West Africa regions using artificial intelligence for energy access. We asked Bachirou three questions about...

10 April 2025 | At the end of March, representatives of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) of the Universities of Osnabrück and Oldenburg as well as the affiliated institute OFFIS – Institute of Computer Science founded the Open Energy Ontologies Foundry (OEO Foundry). The new initiative aims to develop structured knowledge models (ontologies) for the...

2 April 2025 | Berlin must make its heat supply climate-neutral – this is what the Heat Planning Act stipulates. Heat storage systems play a central role in this. This shows a joint project by the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and...

Vienna, 01.04.2025 | With more and more battery-electric trucks and buses on Austria’s roads, the need for charging infrastructure and the demands on the electricity grid are increasing. To support this ramp-up of e-mobility, the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) has joined forces with a German-Austrian consortium to develop a platform on which stakeholders involved in...

March 10, 2025 | The University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin) has appointed Dr. Kathrin Goldammer as an honorary professor. From summer semester 2025, the electrical engineer and Managing Director of the Reiner Lemoine Institute will become a professor at HTW Berlin in Faculty 1 Engineering – Energy and Information. Dr. Kathrin Goldammer complements the...

March 4, 2025 | More than 200 mayors and leaders from administration, politics, business, civil society and science today published the call “For a state of the future – call for courageous state reform”. RLI supports the initiative and calls on other individuals and organisations from politics, administration, business and civil society to join. RLI...