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These insulation boards from the OrganaPor_Fassade project are made from renewable raw materials.

12.08.2024 Mission Heat Transition 2045 Project Insights

How innovative insulation materials make buildings more energy efficient

Thermal insulation made from sustainable materials is a cornerstone of the energy revolution. These projects are working on new solutions.

Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck was convinced of the energy system contribution of the pragmatic yet innovative approach to the control, measurement and balancing of small, flexible consumption systems.

17.07.2024 Mission Electricity Transition 2045, Mission Energy System 2045 News

Federal Minister Habeck visits pilot installation for the management of micro-flexibilities

Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Habeck visited the pilot installation of the FlexMC funding project in Berlin Pankow on Monday, 15 July 2024.

Dr Jörg Reichert (naturenergie), Dr Tobias Benz (Mayor), Dr Reihaneh Zohourian and Prof Wolfram Münch (both EnBW) (from left to right) symbolically start the construction work.

12.06.2024 Mission Electricity Transition 2045, Mission Energy System 2045, Mission Hydrogen 2030 News

H2-Wyhlen: Ground-breaking ceremony for second power-to-gas plant

The partners have given the go-ahead for construction work on the second power-to-gas plant at the hydropower plant with a ground-breaking ceremony.

03.06.2024 Mission Electricity Transition 2045, Mission Energy System 2045, Mission Heat Transition 2045, Mission Hydrogen 2030, Mission Transfer News

New funding announcement for applied energy research

Research institutions, companies and others can now apply for funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action for funding.

The challenges and solutions for the energy transition and applied energy research in the future were discussed by the participants on the podium.

28.05.2024 Mission Electricity Transition 2045, Mission Energy System 2045, Mission Heat Transition 2045, Mission Transfer News

8th Energy Research Programme: Supporting the energy transition with research missions

The BMWK is realigning future funding in applied energy research in its 8th Energy Research Programme.

Panel discussion at the Berlin Energy Days

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.

The picture shows the park of Schloss Bellevue with the exhibition pavilions.

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.

SmartQuart in realisation: The energy-efficient new-build quarter in Bedburg can be seen here.

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.

Plättchen aus Aluminium, auf welches mit einem Femtosekundenlaser der Schriftzug

24.04.2024 Mission Hydrogen 2030 Project Insights

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.

Large-scale heat pump at the EnBW power plant in Stuttgart-Münster

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.

According to the University of Kassel, cooling units, such as the free cooler shown here, will probably be the most common source of waste heat for heat pumps in industry in the coming years.

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.

Portrait photo of Dr Claudia Buerhop-Lutz

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.

Dr Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, at the opening of the GWK+ large wave current flume.

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.

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr Torsten Schlurmann

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.

Cell design of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells and related manufacturing processes are the subject of intensive research.

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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