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March 10th 2017 – The RLI open source projects have  undergone a legal check-up and can now be published under public licenses. The teams working on the open_eGo and open_FRED projects have met with Till Jäger, a lawyer for copyright and media law from the firm JBB, on March 9th 2017 for a one-day workshop...

February 17th 2017 – The team working on the research project open_eGo has reached an important milestone: January marked the end of the first half of the three-year funding period. The project partners – consisting of Europa-Universität Flensburg (via the affiliated Center for Sustainable Energy Systems), Reiner Lemoine Institute, Next Energy – EWE Research Centre...

February 2nd 2017 – The RLI has been accepted as a member of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) at the beginning of the year. The SDSN is an international group of more than 500 research institutions who work on solutions for Sustainable Development. It was launched in 2012 by former UN Secretary-General...

January 17th 2017 – RLI has become partner in both of the two largest German research projects on the Energy Transition: WindNODE and ENavi each are sub-projects of large-scale funding initiatives by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). WindNODE is one of five...

December 8th 2016 – RLI will receive funding from the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure for a research project on hydrogen infrastructure. In the „ImplaN“ project, short for „Initial Infrastructure for hydrogen mobility based on predictable consumers“, which will last for 30 months, the RLI will develop strategies for increasing the number...

December 8th 2016 – The two RLI researchers Alexander Wanitschke and Paul Bertheau have won scholarships for their PhD projects and have been accepted into the PhD program of Reiner Lemoine-Foundation. The foundation, that established RLI in 2010, is funding a number of junior researchers who work in renewable energies and transformation of energy systems...

December 1st 2016 – Alexander Wanitschke, Oliver Arnhold, and Raoul Hirschberg from the RLI Research Field Mobility with Renewable Energy, have presented first intermediate result from the PIOnEER project on December 1st in Potsdam. At the Second Future Forum on E-Mobility in Brandenburg (Zweites Zukunftsforum „E-mobiles Brandenburg – erneuerbar elektrisch“) hosted by the Brandenburg Ministry...

November 30th 2016 – RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has been elected for the Board of Directors of HYPOS e. V. She will be co-opted member as of November 2016 for two years and will participate in decisions regarding the hydrogen infrastructure of Germany HYPOS is short for Hydrogen Power Storage & Solutions East Germany,...

November 10th 2016 – The RLI has released a revised version of the open energy modelling framework (oemof). oemof is an collaboratively-developed open-source software, based on the Python modelling library Pyomo. By using oemof, energy system model developers all over the world have a toolkit at hand that allows them to create multi-regional power and...

November 9th 2016 – Berit Müller, Head of the RLI research fied “Tranformation of Energy Systems” is now spokeswoman of the Working Group 4 of the “Research Network Energy System Analysis”. She has been elected during the first meeting of the Working Group that took place online on November 9th 2016. Berit is now responsible...