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27th June 2016 – The staff of Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) has used this year’s field trip to have a social day for the first time. The work force of about 30 people has been “donated” for a whole day to refurbish the rooms and yard of “AJZ Kita”, a self-governing project sponsored by the...

22nd June 2016 – Marcel Sax, student assistant at RLI, has presented his work on hydrogen storage systems at the conference “Thailand – Energy Efficiency in the Infrastructure” on June 21st in Stuttgart. In his presentation “Enabling renewable energy off-grid systems through hydrogen storage – A global analysis”, he illustrated potential usages of modular electrolyzers...

June 22nd 2016 | RLI  presented parts of its research from the showcase project Micro Smart Grid EUREF at this year’s World Electric Vehicle Symposium und Exhibition (EVS) in Montréal from June 19th – 22nd, 2016. One of this year’s conference’s major topics was the roll out of charging infrastructure for the supply of battery electric...

Guido Pleßmann, PhD candidate in RLI’s Research Field Transformation of Energy Systems, has been awarded 3rd place of the Best Paper Award at the “2nd SEE SDEWES“ Conference in Piran. In his work “Outlook on South-East European power system until 2050: Least-cost decarbonization pathway meeting EU mitigation targets”, Guido shows how the EU’S goals for...

June 22nd 2016 – Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) has attended the dena Power-to-Gas Annual Convention on 21st June in Berlin. Visitors found information on Power-to-Gas and hydrogen as fuel at the RLI stand and used the opportunity to discuss with our researchers from the team “Mobility with Renewable Energy” about new developments and current projects from...

June 17th 2016 – Matthias Resch, researcher in the “Transformation of Energy Systems” team at RLI, and Sebastian Aschenbrenner, Project Head at Lechwerke Verteilnetz GmbH, participated as speakers in the forum “Stationäre Batteriespeicher in der Energieversorgung”, which took place in Landshut on June 16th 2016. They presented current results of the project Smart Power Flow....

June 14th 2016 – The “Long Night of Sciences” (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften) took place in Berlin and Potsdam on June 11th 2016.  More than 70 research institutions opened their doors for the public between 5 p.m. and 12 a.m. RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer participated as moderator of a panel discussion titled „Quo Vadis,...

June 13th 2016 – Kathrin Goldammer, Managing Director of Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), has chaired the HYPOS Matching Event which took place on June 8th 2016 in Halle an der Saale. About 100 members and guests of the HYPOS network met to discuss renewable energy integration in electricity grids and hydrogen pipelines as well as...

June 11th 2016 – Jochen Bühler, research associate in the field “Transformation of Energy Systems”  at RLI, has been invited as a speaker to the “Strommarkttreffen” (open meeting of researchers working on energy markets), which took place in Berlin on June 10th 2016. He presented the current results of the project SmartPowerFlow, where Jochen is...

June 10th 2016 – Matthias Resch, researcher in the “Transformation of Energy Systems” team at RLI, participated at the 13th European Energy Market Conference (EEM 2016), which took place in Porto June 6th to 8th 2016 as a speaker. He presented a study titled: “Increasing the Hosting Capacity of Distribution Grids by Implementing Residential PV...