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March 22, 2023 | Scientists at Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) are guided by the principles of Open Science and try to make much of their scientific work accessible. In a key issue paper, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) also supports the principle of Open Science and sees it as...

March 16, 2023 | Kathrin Goldammer, executive director of RLI, was in Japan from February 27 to March 3 within the scope of her membership in the German-Japanese Energy Council (GJETC). The council is a German-Japanese committee to strengthen knowledge exchange on technologies, policies and impacts of the energy transition. In its form, continuity and...

March 10, 2023 | Electric fleets in the logistics industry offer secured flexibility for the power grid. Together with grid-serving charging strategies, they can help to avoid bottlenecks or overloads in distribution grids and make more flexible use of electricity from renewable sources. These are the findings of the Netz_eLOG project team. In it, the...

March 8, 2023 | Bernd Hirschl, from the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and scientific director of the expert consortium, today handed over the final report on the Brandenburg Climate Plan to Axel Vogel, the state’s minister for climate protection. The RLI collaborated on the report for the sector transport and mobility. The report...

March 2, 2023 | The project “National Research Data Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Energy Systems Research” (NFDI4Energy) was officially launched on March 1. The Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) is part of the consortium and participated with two researchers in the kick-off workshop at the University of Oldenburg on February 22. In the new project, RLI scientists...

February 28, 2023 | It is the largest public dataset on actual energy use in Nigeria: researchers from the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) publish representative results of a survey of about 4700 households and businesses. As part of the project “People Power: Optimizing Off-Grid Electricity Supply Systems in Nigeria” (PeopleSuN), the data provides answers to...

February 16, 2023 | Brandenburg’s Minister of Economics Jörg Steinbach presented a feasibility study for the establishment and expansion of an efficient transport network for hydrogen in Brandenburg at a press conference in Potsdam today: It has a total length of about 1,100 kilometers. Of these, around 600 kilometers (54 %) are converted natural gas...

The RLI celebrates its birthday today: 13 years of successful research on renewable energies. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to do. The following list shows 13 challenges of the energy transition – and how RLI scientists are working to overcome them until our goal of 100 percent renewable energy is reached. 1. Enable more...

January 26, 2023 | Volker Wissing, Federal Minister of Digital Affairs and Transport, today handed over his ministry’s funding notification to the RLI and the project consortium for the E-Bus 2030+ project. In this project, RLI scientists, together with TU Berlin and the Berliner Verkehrsbetrieben (BVG), are developing strategies for the complete decarbonization of Berlin...

December 6, 2022 | The bus fleet of ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam GmbH (ViP) is going to be 100 percent electric by 2031. This was announced by the state capital Potsdam and ViP on November 28. The RLI developed the underlying feasibility study together with its project partner EMCEL. With this decision, the city and the...