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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