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July 4, 2023 | Green hydrogen is an important building block for the energy transition: It makes it possible to store renewable energy and can be used in various sectors. In the H2VL project for the Havelland district, experts from science and consulting companies have investigated how the entire hydrogen value chain, consisting of production,...

June 29, 2023 | For a good year now, the districts of Tübingen and Reutlingen have been jointly advancing the topic of green hydrogen with the project “Hy-NATuRe” (Hydrogen – Neckar-Alb-Tuebingen-Reutlingen). On June 29, the preliminary final event of the project took place with 60 regional stakeholders at the Westspitze in Tübingen. The jointly developed...

June 21, 2023 | In the E-MetroBus project, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), together with TU Berlin and Reiner Lemoine Institute, have integrated 17 articulated buses with battery-electric drive into their fleet. The quiet, zero-emission buses now run primarily on the project line 200 between Hertzallee and Michelangelostrasse. They thus replace a total of 17 diesel...

June 27, 2023 | Philipp Blechinger, head of the research unit Off-Grid Systems at RLI, is a fellow at Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) since last May. The Canadian-based institution is a center for research, education, and outreach on global governance and international public policy. It comprises a global network of scholars, students and...

June 06, 2023 | Last Friday, a team from our research department Transformation of Energy Systems presented their eGon project. In the project, the researchers are investigating the effects of sector coupling on the German power grid. The transformation of the energy supply towards a supply with renewable energies poses challenges for the power grids....

May 25, 2023 | Today the members of the WISTA Young Professionals Board met for the first time. Sarah-Juliane Starre, student assistant in the research unit Mobility with Renewable Energies, is a member of the new board, which aims to further develop Adlershof as a science location. The WISTA Management GmbH is a state-owned company...

May 2, 2023 | The Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) has released several data packages with information on health facilities, households, and electricity demand and supply in Ghana under an open-data license and illustrated them in an interactive digital map (webmap). It helps users to visualize and plan electrification strategies for health facilities and their surrounding...

27. April 2023 | RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer will offer an elective module in the summer semester 2023 as an adjunct lecturer in the Renewable Energies program at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW). Today, the lecture started with the title: “Economic Aspects of the Use of Renewable Energies.” Kathrin will speak in...

24. April 2023 | The Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) is a partner and founding member of the new Academic Council of Island Innovation. The organization aims to contribute to fostering innovation and sustainable change in island communities worldwide. The new body will meet for the first time on April 25. One of the main goals...

5. April 2023 | Avia Linke and Katrin Lammers from the research area Off-Grid Systems at the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), traveled to Ghana for the final workshop of the EnerSHelF project. On March 7, they presented the results from all work packages in a symposium in the capital Accra with partners from the participating...