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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...

December 7th, 2023 | Delayed expansion of the electricity grids jeopardizes the rapid implementation of the energy system transformation. More flexibility through heat pumps and heat storage in the electricity grid could counteract this and compensate for delays. This is the result of a short study by the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI). The scientists’ calculations...

November 30, 2023 | Hydrogen (H2) plays an important role in the renewable energy system to secure electricity generation. New and existing power plants must therefore be made ready for H2 operation. They should become H2-ready. However, the conversion and new construction of power plants that can be operated with 100 per cent hydrogen poses...

November 20, 2023 | Around 150 participants responded to the invitation of Reiner Lemoine Foundation (RLS), Graduate School, and Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) on November 15. to attend the ESW Conference. The event took place at the Berlin Academy of Sciences, where participants collectively discussed solutions, opportunities, and challenges of the Energy System Transition (ESW)....

October 16 – 20, 2023 | Clara Neyrand, Hannes Cramer, Philipp Blechinger and Katrin Lammers from RLI were in Nigeria from October 16 to 20 as part of the PeopleSun project. They supervised various workshops and training courses on site and strengthened the Nigerian-German exchange. Here are a few impressions from their stay: October 16...

 November 15, 2023 | The next milestone for the “Buffered-HLL” pilot project, buffered high-power charging for electric public transport buses, has been reached at Bensheim railway station in Hesse: Following the completion of construction and initial successful tests, the storage and charging system for electric public transport buses will now be officially put into operation...

October 24, 2023 | Electric vehicles not only draw electricity from the grid, they can also help make more electricity from renewable energies usable. They serve as rolling storage units and offer high potential for load-side flexibility through grid-serving charging. In order to make optimal use of this, the Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) has developed...

October 18th, 2023 | Hydrogen should be produced primarily when a lot of green electricity is available in order to avoid additional CO2 emissions in the electricity system. H2 quantities produced in this way can be used flexibly over time in sensible areas of application. A consistent expansion of renewable energies is crucial for a...

October 4th, 2023| Kathrin Goldammer, Executive Director of RLI, was in Mexico from the 2nd to the 9th of Septemberas part of the German government’s lecture program. She went there to for an exchange about green hydrogen. On her journey she visited different institutions and participated in important events. The trip aimed at a stronger...