News from applied energy research

Berlin Energy Days

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.

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Energy transition and society

"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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8th energy research programme

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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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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