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Renewables in its DNA
ABO Wind is a wind farm project development company that is working on the energy transition:
The energy transition is built on sun and wind. But the path to putting facilities on fields and meadows is long. The project development company ABO Wind knows the way around but is also aware of the pitfalls. The…
A bright future
Eva Unger researches a class of minerals known as perovskites:
They can be made to emit light – or used for generating electricity. Perovskites are semiconductors, and as such are ideally suited for use in electronic components. They are being investigated by the materials…
Who if not us?
How industry and research in Adlershof are tackling global challenges:
Climate change, plastic pollution of the environment, water scarcity – the world will get stuck in man-made mess if nothing is done against it. Industry and research in Adlershof are doing something against it and are…
Green methanol for shipping and industry: €10.4 M. for "Leuna100" project
Consortium of two Fraunhofer institutes, DBI-Gastechnologisches Institut Freiberg, Technical University of Berlin and C1 from Adlershof makes industrial history at the Leuna site:
The Berlin-based climate tech start-up C1, together with its partners the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT,…
BESSY II back in operation after cyber attack on Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB, national metrology center) can use its experimental stations again:
Since Monday 3 July 2023 BESSY II light source produces brilliant light for research again. It was shut down as a precaution after a hacker attack on the IT systems at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) mid-June. The…
17 articulated buses with electric drive for Berlin
E-MetroBus project presents results:
In the E-MetroBus project, the partner organizations Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), TU Berlin and Reiner Lemoine Institute, have integrated seventeen articulated buses with battery-electric drive into their fleet.…
HZB and University of Jena establish Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications
New institute HIPOLE to provide significant impetus in the field of energy materials:
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy, HZB) will jointly establish the "Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications" (HIPOLE) on 1…
BESSY User Meeting in Adlershof
Despite a cyber attack on the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, the meeting will take place as scheduled:
On 15.06.2023, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) became the target of a cyber attack. All IT systems were shut down for protection. The research centre cannot be reached via the website, email or telephone at the…
Effects of sector coupling on the German power grid
RLI research team presented the eGoⁿ project, a planning instrument for the electricity grid expansion with flexibility options by integrating other energy sectors:
In early June, a team from the research department Transformation of Energy Systems of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) presented their eGon project. In the project, the researchers are investigating the effects of…
Green Deal Ukraina: HZB launches an Energy & Climate Project
Think tank will assist in rebuilding a sustainable energy system in Ukraine:
Green Deal Ukraina, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is working with partner institutions in Ukraine and Poland to establish an energy and climate think tank in the capital, Kiev. The…
Power supply to health facilities in Ghana
RLI releases data and digital map to be used for planning electrification strategies:
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…
Fast and flexible solar energy from the printer
Innovation platform Solar TAP develops innovative solutions for photovoltaic applications and intends to bring them into use quickly:
Lighter, more flexible and adaptable – the innovation platform Solar TAP develops innovative solutions for photovoltaic applications. The aim is to make surfaces already used in agriculture, the building sector and…
Neighbourhood concepts for more sustainable mobility
Reiner Lemoine Institut and Localiser are planning charging infrastructure at HOWOGE locations in Berlin:
RLI and Localiser RLI GmbH are supporting the housing association HOWOGE in a project to develop neighbourhood concepts for more sustainable mobility in Berlin. In this context, a new subproject started in March: RLI…
Berlin Adlershof: Record growth despite skills shortage and multiple crises
Positive development despite interlocking crises/ Remarkable increase particularly in employment:
Despite various interlocking crises, the Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof was able to grow significantly in 2022. Revenues and budgetary resources increased to €3.63 billion (2021: €3.21 billion),…
HZB receives funding to make innovations usable more quickly
Helmholtz Association funds innovation platforms on accelerator technologies and photovoltaics research with 4.2 million euros:
The Helmholtz Association has selected three new innovation platforms that will now be funded. HZB is involved in two of them: The Innovation Platform on Accelerator Technologies HI-ACTS is intended to open up modern…
Future-oriented expansion of the LUM management
Susanne Lerche-Merchant will strengthen the management of the company as Managing Director/CEO as of March 2023:
LUM GmbH was founded in 1994 by the Managing Director Prof. Dr. Dr. Dietmar Lerche as innovative development, production and service corporation. The headquarters are located in Berlin, Germany. Subsidiaries work in…
Solar cells produced from liquid inks were tested under real life conditions in the field
HZB team optimises metal halide perovskites for the slot die coater – a step towards industrial production:
Solar cells made from metal halide perovskites achieve high efficiencies and their production from liquid inks requires only a small amount of energy. A team led by Prof. Dr. Eva Unger at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is…
HZB team investigates charge transport in MXenes
Superstore MXene are considered an exciting new class of materials for energy storage:
MXenes are able to store large amounts of electrical energy like batteries and to charge and discharge rather quickly like a supercapacitor. They combine both talents and thus are a very interesting class of materials…
Tackling the climate crisis with high-efficiency tandem solar cells
The research at Helmholtz-Zentrum has reached the pinnacle of its field:
“No other sandwich will give you this amount of energy” – although this is putting it quite crudely, the sentence contains a highly scientific truth. After all, it was included in the presentation of Amran Al-Ashouri,…
Flexible charging strategy in electrified logistics fleets can relieve pressure on power grids
Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), IAV and E.DIS Netz GmbH presented the results of the research project Netz_eLOG on the intelligent grid integration of e-mobility:
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…