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June 2nd 2016 – The Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) participated in the 1st ATZ Conference Grid Integration of E-Mobility that took place in Berlin on May 31st and June 1st 2016. A delegation from the team “Mobility with Renewable Energy” presented results and methods from their field of research, focusing on the project Intelligent Mobility...

Paul Bertheau, researcher in the Off-Grid Systems research group at Reiner Lemoine Institute, has won first place at the Science Slam of the 2nd Stakeholder Forum of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP). The Science Slam took place on May 17th  2016 in context of the 2nd AEEP Stakeholder Forum at Politecnico Milano. Twelve finalists, selected...

The Cluster “Transformation Research” of the Heinrich Böll Foundation met on May 12th at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). In the working group on centralized and decentralized approaches to energy system transformation, which was moderated by Berit Müller (Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI)), a wide range of issues has been brought up. The...

RLI researchers were authorized to conduct a systematic overview of developmental aid in the EU in energy issues. In the course of 2016 they will generate an overview of how much funding and what kind of funding goes from the EU into developmental cooperation in energy issues worldwide. This exercise contributes to transparency within developmental...

The 10th Eursosolar-Conference themed “Public Utilities with Renewable Energies” took place on May 9th and 10th in Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. The Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) presented the interim results of the project SmartEnergy Ostdeutschland and promoted the network and usage of its outputs. The options for more sutsianable public services were discussed,...

RLI presented part of its work on population-based decision support techniques for energy systems design at this year’s seminar  on complex systems held by the scientific panel on environmental and geoscience simulation (Fachgruppe “Simulation in den Umwelt- und Geowissenschaften”) at Hamburg University of Applied Science on April 20-22, 2016. With its yearly seminar the panel...

The “31st Symposium Photovoltaic Solar Energy” took place at Kloster Banz from 9th to 11th March. One day ahead a PV-Diesel-Hybrid Seminar has been conducted in collaboration with Fraunhofer ISE. During this seminar Philipp Blechinger, teamleader off-grid systems at the Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) presented a global analysis of potentials for hybrid mini-grids. In addition,...

Building local capacities and promoting applied research are essential pillars in the development of renewable energies in Africa. Increased Africa-EU scientific cooperation is seen as crucial elements to boost renewable energy research in Africa. Therefore the Africa-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP) in cooperation with the Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences...

RLI presented some of its newest research results at this year’s International Renewable Energy Storage Conference (IRES) on March 15-17 in Düsseldorf, Germany: Storage demand in interconnected central and residential electricity systems (Caroline Möller,Session: Applications, Case Studies and Scenarios) Electrification planning with focus on hybrid mini-grids – a comprehensive planning approach for the global south...

Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) joins the international soil protection network „People4Soil” in February. People4Soil is a community of European NGOs, research institutions and environmental groups that want soil to be recognized as a common good and a critical resource for mankind. “We became member of People4Soil because we want to highlight the importance of soil...