News from applied energy research

With JenErgieReal, researchers demonstrate in practice how cities can be sustainably supplied with power and heat.

In addition to technology, photovoltaics must also take meteorological and astronomical events – such as solar eclipses – into account.

The World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) took place in Milan in late September.

Following a successful planning application, the official start of construction of a solid biogas plant began on 30 September in Kirkel-Altstadt.

Thanks to augmented reality, residents will in future be able to see what planned wind turbines would look like on site.

Knowing the right time windows to install offshore rotor blades at sea saves considerable costs. This is where the start-up flucto comes in.

Noise from technically flawless wind turbines changes to background noise from a distance of about 750 metres.

Construction of the world's first industrial test system for synthetic fuels produced with solar thermal heat begins in Jülich.

The German government has decided to reduce the protection radius around air traffic control facilities from 15 to 7 kilometres.