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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...

April 3, 2023 | RLI and Localiser RLI GmbH are supporting the housing association HOWOGE in a project to develop neighborhood concepts for more sustainable mobility in Berlin. In this context, a new subproject started in March: RLI scientists analyze needs and potentials for private and public charging infrastructure (LIS) for the HOWOGE locations. The...

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...