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May 22, 2024 | Berlin is ready to tackle the challenges of climate change and take on a pioneering role in the use of renewable energies. A powerful team of energy market, heat market and digital experts will provide support. On behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment,...

May 6, 2024 | The opportunities offered by green hydrogen for the decentralized power supply of hotels and tourist facilities on the Pacific islands of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands have been revealed by a feasibility study in which RLI scientists were involved. The analysis was carried out as part of the project...

April 11, 2024 | oemof e.V. was founded at the beginning of 2023 and aims to support the development and application of the energy system modeling framework oemof (open energy modeling framework) of the same name the Reiner Lemoine Institute became a member of the association at the end of February, making it the first...

April 10, 2024 | Ilka Cußmann has been the new Head of the Transformation of Energy Systems research unit at the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) since April 1, 2024. She will head the division together with Mascha Richter. Ilka is an expert in the creation of open data models for energy system analysis and the...

March 19, 2024 | Four weeks of exchange, four weeks of joint work: three guest researchers from Kazakhstan are visiting the RLI in March. Aigerim Karibay (KMG Engineering), Gulzhiyan Kabdulova and Ayazhan Karabayeva (national company Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary) are working together with the RLI researchers as part of the “Green HyRECA” project. They are working...

March 19, 2024 | RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has been a board member of Women in Green Hydrogen (WiGH) since February 16th 2024.  At an annual meeting in Berlin, the association members elected their first board of directors. Women in Green Hydrogen is an international network of women working in the hydrogen industry. Kathrin...

February 1st, 2024 | Jakob Gemassmer has been the new Head of the Mobility with Renewable Energy research unit at the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) since 1st January 2024. Together with Juliane Arriens, Jakob now forms the management duo for the division. Jakob is not a stranger to the RLI. He has been a researcher in...

January 29th, 2024 | A broad alliance from research and industry is calling on the German government to provide federal funding for application-oriented research into electromobility in the 2024 budget and beyond. In an open letter, the signatories address the German government, which is planning to massively reduce funding for “measures for the further development...

January 10th, 2024 | Since 1 January 2024, Christine Kühnel has been Co-Managing Director of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) and heads it together with Kathrin Goldammer. Kühnel holds a doctorate in industrial engineering and is an expert in civil society aspects of the energy transition and environmental protection. She has been Head of Division...

December 06, 2023 | A delegation from Pakistan visited the Reiner Lemoine Institute in November. The visit of the Pakistani energy and grid planning experts took place as part of the GIZ Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project (REEE II). The aim of the project is to drive forward the energy transition in Pakistan and...