About the Institute
The text is the website content of the Reiner-Lemoine-Institut (RLI), listed as both author and publisher. It presents the institute's work on the energy transition and the transport transition (Energie- und Verkehrswende), and says its experts carry out data analyses, plan and optimise infrastructure or energy systems, produce strategic planning studies and pursue research questions using scientific methods. The text does not state the institute's legal form or location.
Research Focus Areas
- Socio-economic field studies: spatial datasets such as resource availability, settlement patterns, and socio-economic and demographic values, needed to improve energy supply.
- Hydrogen: green hydrogen is described as an important future energy carrier; the institute takes a holistic view from potential analysis for production, storage and use through to infrastructure and value chains.
- Electricity grids: research on planning and operation of grids, especially distribution grids.
- Grid integration of e-mobility: questions such as how additional load peaks affect the grid and what grid- and system-supporting charging strategies for electric vehicles could look like.
- Rail and buses: analysis of where trains are during the day, their energy consumption and where they need supplying, and where and how buses are charged or refuelled and how they link to local energy systems.
- GIS analyses: geoinformation systems are used as key tools in the institute's off-grid work.
Participation and Knowledge Communication
The text states that the energy transition is a social process as well as a technical one, and that involving all stakeholders in local decision-making is essential for its success.
Why It Matters for the Energy and Transport Transition
According to the text, the institute supports clients in tasks that are important for the energy and transport transition, offering data analysis, infrastructure planning, strategic studies and scientific research.