News from energy research

27.05.2024 Mission Energy System 2045, Mission Heat Transition 2045, Mission Transfer News

"Tell good stories, not fairy tales"

During the Berlin Energy Days, it was discussed how knowledge from energy research can be effectively communicated to society.

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08.05.2024 Mission Electricity Transition 2045, Mission Energy System 2045, Mission Heat Transition 2045, Mission Hydrogen 2030, Mission Transfer News

Individual funding advice at the Week of the Environment 2024

Experts discuss research funding at the BMWK stand at the Week of the Environment in Berlin on 4 and 5 June 2024.

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29.04.2024 Mission Heat Transition 2045, Mission Transfer News

Energy-Optimized Neighbourhoods: SmartQuart Shows How it’s Done

Different neighbourhoods can be supplied with climate-friendly energy, as the SmartQuart energy transition real-world laboratory shows.

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24.04.2024 Mission Hydrogen 2030 Projekteinblicke

Releasing hydrogen more dynamically with a plate reactor

Wasserstoff an eine Flüssigkeit binden und ihn bei Bedarf wieder freisetzen: Darum geht es bei der LOHC-Technologie und im Forschungsprojekt LOReley.

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17.04.2024 Mission Energy System 2045, Mission Heat Transition 2045 News

Save CO2 with Large-Scale Heat Pumps

Large-scale heat pumps are being installed at no less than five power plant sites in the "GWP" real laboratory of the energy transition.

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15.02.2024 Mission Heat Transition 2045 News

Customizing Systems for Renewable Heat Supply

Researchers have analysed the heat consumption of 797 companies in Germany.

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15.08.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Interviews

Collecting data on solar plants: How new evaluation methods and AI help to increase their yields

Dr Claudia Buerhop-Lutz explains why collecting and evaluating large amounts of data from photovoltaic systems plays an essential role in dig4morE.

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30.06.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Test infrastructure in a new dimension

The German research landscape receives new test infrastructures for modern wind turbines – Federal Minister Habeck visits the facilities.

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26.06.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Interviews

Control over the tides

Large Wave Flume: Professor Torsten Schlurmann, head of the marTech joint project, reports on the project work.

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20.06.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Manufacturing tandem solar cells on an industrial scale

Two new research projects are working on scaling up perovskite silicon tandem photovoltaics to an industrial scale.

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19.06.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

How process heat or electricity can be produced without pollutants

A team of researchers is developing a steam generator to burn hydrogen and oxygen and generate electricity or heat without pollutants.

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15.06.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Solar industry in Germany shows double-digit growth for the sixth year in a row

The annual report of the PVPS photovoltaic programme shows that the German photovoltaic sector continues to develop positively.

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08.05.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Microturbine becomes hydrogen-capable

Euro-K is working with TU Berlin to develop a burner that can be installed in commercially available turbines and run on 100 percent hydrogen.

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03.05.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Sun Day: 240 gigawatts of newly installed photovoltaic capacity worldwide in 2022

In 2022, the photovoltaic sector again recorded significant growth. Globally installed photovoltaic capacity currently hits around 1.2 terawatts.

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18.04.2023 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Higher power through coordinated switching of several converters

The WindUmEta project partners have optimised the converters connected upstream of the power grid so they receive more electricity from wind turbines.

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