Renewable Energy / Photovoltaics

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…

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…

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…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

In his HyPerGreen project, the researcher aims to improve the efficiency of lead-free perovskite solar cells:

Dr. Artem Musiienko has earned a prestigious Maria Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for his research project HyPerGreen. In the group of Prof. Antonio Abate, HZB, Musiienko will explore and improve lead-free…

With an improved material structure, a team from HZB achieves efficiencies of up to 24.6%:

Perovskite semiconductors promise highly efficient and low-cost solar cells. However, the semi-organic material is very sensitive to temperature differences, which can quickly lead to fatigue damage in normal outdoor…

An innovative project for sustainable kerosine has been launched at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin:

The transition to clean energy, or Energiewende, in transportation has begun. We are moving away from fuels that are damaging to the climate like petrol or diesel and towards carbon-neutral energy sources, including…

BTB is pursuing a storage project to improve the sustainability of Berlin’s energy supply:

In a pilot project that is one of its kind in Germany, BTB GmbH, an energy provider, wants to make district heating supply more climate-friendly by integrating a seasonal geothermal heat storage facility. Exploratory…

Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency:

The current world record of tandem solar cells consisting of a silicon bottom cell and a perovskite top cell is once again at HZB. The new tandem solar cell converts 32.5 % of the incident solar radiation into…