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October 10th 2016 – RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has been appointed to the scientific advisory council for the conference „Grid Integration of Electric Mobility“ hosted by Automobiltechnischen Zeitschrift (ATZ). The seven member council decides which contributions will be accepted for the conference “Grid Integration of Electric Mobility“, which takes place May 16th and 17th...

October 6th 2016 – RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has participated in the Second Expert Seminar “Good Governance to energy transition” in Montevideo, Uruguay. At the seminar, experts from ministries, governments, associations, consulting firms, and development banks discussed with researchers about energy transition processes in Germany and Latin America. They compared policies and governance structures...

October 5th 2016 – Paul Bertheau, research associate in the research field Off-Grid Systems at RLI, has participated in the third EU Energy Initiative Advisory Board meeting in 2016, hosted by the European Commission’s EUEI Secretariat. The regular meeting brings together member states, the EUEI Secretariat, and the EUEI Partnership Dialogue Facility to discuss and...

September 29th 2016 – Oliver Arnhold, Head of Mobility with Renewable Energy at RLI, has given a lecture at the the “Lernlabor Flottenelektrifizierung” (Learning Lab Fleet Electrification). at HTW Berlin on September 29th 2016. Oliver’s session was titled “Electric fleets with renewable energies – detecting conflicts and optimizing operation” and covered cost-cutting, independence from grids,...

September 29th 2016 – RLI managing director Kathrin Goldammer has been a speaker at the three-day training „Changing Energy Markets” at the consulting firm KoM-SOLUTION in Berlin on September 29th. Her session was titled „New technologies: e-mobility and storage“ and focussed on application options for energy storages in markets as well as the future of...

September 23rd  2016 – Catherina Cader, research associate in the RLI research field Off-Grid Systems, has won the Best Paper Award at the “International Conference on Solar Technologies & Hybrid Mini Grids to Improve Energy Access“. She presented her work on „Geospatial Modelling and Implementation Plan for Electrification Strategies – The Case of Nigeria“ in...

September 23rd 2016 | Berit Müller, Head of the research field “Transformation of Energy Systems” at RLI, has participated in the conference “Modelling Smart Grids – A Challenge for Stochastics and Optimization” in Prague. Her keynote was titled “Outreach of energy system simulations – from models to reality” and discussed chances and barriers of energy...

September 20th 2016 – Berit Müller, Head of the RLI research field “Transformation of Energy Systems”, becomes spokeswoman of the initial consortium “Smart Energy Ostdeutschland – SmEnOs” (Smart Energy East Germany). She is going to be in charge of organizing the forum and hosting a final workshop at the end of the project, were key...

September 19th 2016 – Which regions in Brandenburg are suited best for e-mobility with renewable energies? The RLI has presented first answers to this research question last Friday. For the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics, the RLI has analyzed the situation in the federal state in the PIOnEER Project. In a first step, the RLI has...

September 19 2016 –The EnviroInfo 2016 is the 30th edition of the long standing and established international and interdisciplinary conference series on leading environmental information and communication technologies. It took place from September 14th to 16th 2016 in Berlin. This year, Kathrin Goldammer, RLI managing director, gave a keynote speech about “Why We Need Energy...