Will We Soon See E-Highways All Over Europe?
Battery technology needs to have a very high ratio of energy to battery weight. So far batteries meeting this requirement are only in the research stage.
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Merkur Offshore Wind Project Secures Needed US $1.8 Billion in Financing
The Merkur Offshore wind farm will be one of Germany’s largest wind farms.
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Inauguration of FVA Nacelle at Wind Research Centre in Aachen
The FVA nacelle makes it possible to test the electromechanical drive train of wind turbines in the multi-megawatt range under near-real-life conditions.
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GE Ventures Invests in sonnen Group’s Mission to Form Utility of the Future
sonnen develops and produces the smart storage system “sonnenBatterie”.
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EWeLiNE Project for Better Forecasting For Solar And Wind Power Generation
In the EWeLiNE project, Fraunhofer and the German Weather Service have been working to develop better models for forecasting the generation of renewable electricity.
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How to Make Battery Energy Storage Attractive to UK Customers
Costs for residential battery energy storage in the UK remain too high. For storage to enter the mass market, suppliers have to innovate their customer propositions and business models.
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Forty years of DLR energy research: Think tank for solar thermal power plants
At the end of the 1970s, the building of the first solar thermal pilot plants with outputs of a few megawatts began in the USA and Europe.
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Fraunhofer ISE Adds Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell Vehicle to its Research Fleet of Fuel Cell Cars
A fuel cell in the vehicle converts hydrogen into electricity which runs an electric motor. Only water vapor is emitted from the exhaust pipe.
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Laser Based Manufacturing Process for Solar Cells
For the first time point-contacted solar cells can be manufactured in series. Several million cells with significantly higher efficiency levels are already on the market.
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Clues on the path to a new lithium battery technology
Rechargeable lithium air batteries are a next-generation technology: Theoretically they might be much lighter and offer better performance than current lithium ion batteries.
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Emission-free Electric flight – DLR presents the HY4 research platform at the 2016 Hannover Trade Fair
Realisation of the hybrid propulsion concept for the HY4 research platform is an important milestone en route to making electric flight a reality – even for passenger transportation.
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