Project insights: Research for the energy transition

Project LOReley

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.

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Photovoltaics

Environmentally friendly and efficient: thin-film solar cells in tandem

In the CAPITANO project, researchers have developed a tandem solar cell that combines two thin-film-based solar cell types (perovskite and CIGS).

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Photovoltaics

New printing technologies for efficient silicon solar cells

The INNOMET project team has succeeded in printing fine-line contacts with a triangular cross-section on crystalline solar cells.

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Thermal power plants

Turbomachines indispensable even in a climate-neutral world

Away from fossil fuels towards hydrogen. The ECOFlexTurbo project provides support here by researching combustion systems and developing them.

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Solar thermal power plants

Hybrid power plants generate cheap solar electricity – around the clock

The hybrid CSP-PV power plants produce renewable electrical energy both during the day and at night.

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Solar thermal power plants

Sharp focus with sandwich heliostats

A new sandwich mirror panel made of thin steel sheets with a core of polyurethane should help reduce electricity generation costs.

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Thermal power plants

Worldwide unique technology platform for micro gas turbines

DLR has a technology platform for testing and further developing fuel- and load-flexible micro gas turbines that is the only one of its kind.

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Wind energy

Intelligent systems monitor wind turbines

Wind turbines: For the first time, the condition of the towers' surfaces can be assessed solely on the basis of digital data.

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Bioenergy

The role of bioenergy in the energy system

Bioenergy has a special role to play among renewable energy sources. To achieve this, it must be able to fit flexibly into a complex energy system.

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