News from applied energy research

Living Lab for the Energy Transition

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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Important milestones reached in the living lab for the energy transition

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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Industry and Services

Customizing Systems for Renewable Heat Supply

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

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Wind energy

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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Photovoltaics

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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Thermal power plants

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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Photovoltaics

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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Turbomachines

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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Photovoltaics

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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