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09.07.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

Mobile rig installs and removes pumps

If a production pump of a geothermal power plant fails, it's removed from the borehole together with the production pipes and transported to the surf.

The building designs of the contest participants are to be implemented in Mirker Stadtquartier. The challenges involved are described in an interview with Professor Karsten Voss.

02.07.2019 Mission Heat Transition 2045 News

Solar Decathlon Europe 2021: Focus on Urban Solutions

international competition Solar Decathlon Europe 2021 (SDE21) in Wuppertal, Germany

3D model of Hesse: View into the northern Upper Rhine Graben (tertiary and quaternary covered).

28.06.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

Heat from the substratum for Hesse

The investment costs are in the double-digit million range. New methods combine satellite, airborne and terrestrial data.

With its 300 built-in sensors, the FVA nacelle at the Centre for Wind Power Drives (CWD) at RWTH Aachen University is used in numerous research projects.

11.06.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Optimizing the drive train of a wind turbine

A "transparent" wind turbine nacelle with around 300 installed sensors formed the focus of the "FVA nacelle" research project.

01.06.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Interviews

Stable and safe operation of electricity grids with photovoltaics

In regions without a grid connection, electricity is often supplied from diesel power plants. Photovoltaics could replace a considerable part of this.

Cloud camera in the parabolic trough plant La Africana.

26.05.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

Predicting solar radiation for the short term

Solar power plants can be operated more efficiently if the solar radiation is known precisely.

SIT turbines (Schottel Instream Turbine) on a floating platform operating in Scotland.

09.05.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

Ocean currents – an energy source for the future

A floating platform with a modular turbine system uses the tidal current.

A finished screen printing stencil is illuminated to print the fingers.

07.05.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

Lots of low-cost solar power

Reduce production costs of solar cells by optimizing the screen printing process and the passivation of the cells.

Maintenance work on the Alpha Ventus wind farm.

03.05.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

New maintenance concepts for offshore wind farms

New strategies for the operating phase and maintenance of wind farms significantly reduce costs.

PROMETEO test facility at the Plataforma Solar de Almería.

02.05.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

New high temperature oil successfully demonstrated at Plataforma Solar de Almería

New heat carrier, the silicone oil HELIOSOL 5A can be used in solar thermal power plants even at higher operating temperatures.

The building complex of the former military hospital from the 70s is being completely renovated and converted into office and laboratory buildings.

23.04.2019 Mission Heat Transition 2045, Mission Hydrogen 2030, Mission Transfer News

Military hospital becomes the heart of an emission-free power-only quarter

At the campus of Freie Universität Berlin, scientists are transforming the energy supply from fossil to 100 percent renewable energies.

The highly innovative large-diameter bearing test rig for offshore wind turbines.

08.03.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Test rig for rotor blades of wind turbines

The Fraunhofer IWES has successfully commissioned a test rig for rotor blade bearings up to 6.5 meters in diameter.

PV-diesel hybrid system supplies the 4,000 inhabitants on the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius.

08.03.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

Using PV electricity – saves costs for diesel fuel

In off-grid areas, PV electricity can supplement and, as far as possible, replace diesel generators.

The Zellerfeld demonstration installation in Egling an der Paar in Bavaria.

28.02.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 Project Insights

Biogas ensures stable networks

Biogas plants can flexibly feed in power and heat and in this way compensate for fluctuations in the power and heating network.

A section of the new model wave channel in operation. A model wave channel has been inaugurated at the Coast Research Centre (FZK), a joint central facility belonging to Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

25.02.2019 Mission Electricity Transition 2045 News

Coast Research Centre in Hannover inaugurates model wave channel

At the wave channel, the interaction of waves and currents can be studied and important insights for coastal protection can be gained.

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