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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...

September 16th 2016 – RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has been interviewed today by DRadio Wissen. The interview about the “Nordlink Cable”, is now available online (in German). Background: Between Tonstad in Southern Norway and Wilster in Schleswig-Holstein, more than 600 Kilometer of  high-voltage direct current transmission line will be built – the so-called “Nordlink...

September 14th 2016 – Catherina Cader, researcher at the RLI, participated in the 2016 Myanmar Green Energy Summit in Yangon and represented RLI’s work in electrification planning. This two-day conference brings together stakeholders from Myanmar’s Energy Sector, private industry, researchers, international organizations and government representatives. The motto of this year’s conference was “Gearing Up the...

September 13th 2016 – All partners of the research project ecoPtG met for their second project meeting at the hydrogen fueling station at Schönefeld Airport on September 13th 2016. They presented first results of their work and discussed the next steps. For the ecoPtG project, the RLI is developing a modular electrolyzer that produces hydrogen,...

Six years of research for 100 % renewable energies September 7th 2016 – September 6th 2016 marked the day of RLI’s first larger public event: The RLI Energy-Dialog 2016. More than 130 guests from business, politics, research, and society joined us to discuss energy scenarios of the future. Corresponding with RLI’s three fields of research, the...

September 9th 2016 – We are happy to announce that the Reiner Lemoine Institute is now member of Kompetenznetz Rail Berlin-Brandenburg (KNRBB). KNRBB is a creative, open and international network of 68 cooperation partners, including 44 partners from the region Berlin-Brandenburg and 11 partners from european countries. It was founded in 2011. Today, it identifies...

September 7th 2016 – It is difficult to say whether or not it was the biggest “Strommarkttreffen” that ever happened. Nevertheless, this conference was a big success. “Strommarkttreffen” is an open network consisting of energy experts from science, politics and economy. Usually, there is one workshop every month, taking place at different locations in Berlin....

23rd July 2016 – Philipp Blechinger and Catherina Cader (RLI team Off-Grid Systems) presented and discussed first results of electrification modelling within the project “Rural electrification modelling in the framework of the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP)” during a two-day workshop in Abuja (Nigeria) on July 21st and 22nd 2016. NESP is a technical assistance...