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Our team members Andrea Kollmann and Benjamin Kirchler have just returned from the DIALOGUES project’s General Assembly on the picturesque island of Naxos, where the consortium reflected on our concentrated focus on Eenergy Citizenship and its important role in facilitating a just and equitable energy transition. The meeting led to engaging discussions on the outcomes […]

Last week we hosted the International Energy Agency (IEA) Task Meeting on the Economics of Energy Storage. We had the pleasure of welcoming numerous international experts to Linz. In the course of the 3-day meeting, the role of energy storage in Austria with the most diverse technologies and potentials could be presented. Afterwards there were

On May 10, we had the opportunity to present the current Subtasks 2 and 3 on Circular Carbon and Industrial Symbiosis of IEA IETS Task XXI at the IEA IETS “Energy Future 2023 in Industry Conference” in Göteborg.We had excellent task and invited presentations on global CCU potentials, holistic planning of circular carbon industry, industrial

Seasonal electricity and energy storage systems are a central component of the future energy system. Yesterday, a significant milestone in this regard was realized with our participation: the ceremonial commissioning of the world’s first geological hydrogen storage facility “Underground Sun.Storage 2030” in Rubensdorf bei Gampern. Andreas Zauner, Marie-Theres Holzleitner and Robert Tichler were present at

On April 6, a large stakeholder workshop was held at GeoSphere Austria as part of the CaCTUS research project with denkstatt Austria and the University of Leoben. Under the organization and moderation of Nikolas Sachs, representatives of science, industry and politics came together to discuss Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (#ccus) and its future and

Presentation of frESCO H2020 Project and eCREW Project H2020 at the EU Project Clustering Event: Smart Energy Services! With the aim of sharing common ideas and best practices and creating new knowledge to accelerate smart energy services, the SmartSPIN project is organizing two events on April 25 and May 17, 2023 – the “EU Project

Award for Valerie Rodin with the Young Scientist Poster Award at IEWT 2023 Valerie Rodin MSc was awarded the Young Scientist Poster Award at IEWT 2023 for her work on “Steel, ammonia, green H2 and CO2 – a pack of cards to create industrial symbiosis options in Upper Austria” (in collaboration with Johannes Lindorfer, Andreas

Online Workshop “Circular Carbon & Industrial Symbiosis – the Austrian Perspective” “Powered by” Climate and Energy Fund, the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz, with the involvement of BOKU (Prof. Tobias Pröll) and the WIVA showcase region, is leading Task 21 “Circular Carbon & Industrial Symbiosis” of the IEA’s Industrial Program Focus. Numerous participants attended our

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler University Linz, this year’s Forum Econogy 2022 offered, in addition to a short review of the development of the Energieinstitut, an exciting outlook on the importance and perspectives of energy research in the next 20 years. The Ukraine war as well