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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...

November 28th, 2022 | The German Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) has appointed RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer as a member. At the council’s recent meeting in Berlin on November 28-29, she will attend the meeting for the first time as a council member. The council currently consists of 14 members and aims to promote...

16.11.2022 | As of October 1, 2022, Juliane Arriens is the new co-head of the research unit Mobility with Renewable Energy at the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI). She succeeds Oliver Arnhold, who previously headed this area together with Norman Pieniak. Oliver handed over his previous responsibilities to Juliane and has been fully dedicated to the...

September 16th | The sixth RLI Energy Dialogue (RLIED) took place on September 12, 2022. This year, RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer, together with the Reiner Lemoine Foundation (RLS), welcomed more than 100 people again to a face-to-face event in Berlin. The participants from science, administration, politics and business came together to discuss the topic...

September 15th 2022 | September 15th is International Democracy Day. On this occasion, Mascha Richter and Editha Kötter explain how the RLI supports democracy with its research work and how the open science principle we follow at the RLI can make political decisions more transparent. They jointly head the research unit Transformation of Energy Systems....

September 7th 2022 | RLI, TU Berlin and the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA) have published an e-paper with initiatives from the workshop “Concepts for Sustainable Urban Mobility – Bottom-up Approaches and Case Studies”. The workshop was jointly conducted in December 2021 by Philipp Blechinger, head of the research unit Off-Grid Systems at RLI and Zakia...

30th August 2022 | 16 participants, six workshops and a lot of cultural exchange: For the second time, young scientists and students had the opportunity to further educate theirselves for two weeks on different approaches around the transformation of energy systems within the framework of the California-Berlin Research and Exchange Plus (C-BEAR+) program at the...

August 4th, 2022 | They are crucial for modeling current and future energy systems: data on electricity generation. The Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) has published an updated set of publicly available data from the Market Master Data Register (MaStR) of the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The register contains data on all electricity and gas plants...

August 4th, 2022 | They are crucial for modeling current and future energy systems: data on electricity generation. The Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI) has published an updated set of publicly available data from the Market Master Data Register (MaStR) of the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The register contains data on all electricity and gas...

August 1st, 2022 | Since the first Corona Lockdown, many people’s everyday lives have changed significantly. This also affects work, which has been shifted from one day to another from the office to an – initially often temporary – workplace at home. This has also changed the mobility needs and behavior of employees. What changes...