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Exciting news from our Climate Campaigners project! We are pleased to announce that Climate Campaigners was one of the top 25 projects selected from a total of 307 submissions for the 2023 CMCC Climate Change Communications Award ‘Rebecca Ballestra’! We are honored to have been selected as a project finalist for this prestigious award, which […]

We got great impressions of the company Mersen and are happy to contribute to the development of new products! Currently, there is a strong global trend on the implementation of DC (micro) grids, electric vehicles, etc.. Therefore, Peter Zeller visited the company Mersen in Lyon, France, who develops and produces among a wide range of products for all kind of electric systems, high

The Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation & Technology supports projects with the Energie.Frei.Raum program to break down barriers in the area of testing and implementing energy innovations and corresponding technologies. The aim is to give these projects a sustainable chance in the international environment. We are allowed to start with

Promising business models for feeding industrial waste heat into district heating networks: how waste heat projects are initiated and successfully implemented is the subject of a new paper by Simon Moser and Gabriela Jauschnik. Link to the paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/13/10559 The most important findings first: Note: Our colleague Gabriela Jauschnik will present the contents of this

Sustainability in football: the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz, under the management by Johannes Lindorfer, is working on this in an EU project together with international project partners and is investigating, among other things, the reduction of microplastics on artificial turf pitches. In addition to national associations, the clubs FC Barcelona and FC Internazionale Milano

Are ethylene and ethylene oxide based on biogenic CO2 and power-to-X as economical as their fossil counterparts? According to the techno-economic assessment carried out as part of the Horizon 2020 project CO2EXIDE, they have the potential to be – but only if energy and resource efficiency is further increased and all products are recycled! Valerie

With the aim of further developing the hydrogen region of Upper Austria, the Upper Austrian provincial government founded the Upper Austrian Hydrogen Network. A strategy board coordinates the corresponding activities of the network. Robert Tichler is a member of the strategy board, in which current and future activities in the field of hydrogen in Upper

TransformationEnergy systemAmbitiousMultidisciplinary Interdisciplinary work is particularly important to us at the Energy Institute at JKU Linz. Last week, we were able to recharge our batteries and have excellent conversations to deepen our multidisciplinary structure during our teambuilding excursion. We wish you a relaxing and beautiful summer!

Our INNOnet project got off to a successful start: At the kickoff, innovative, performance-based electricity tariff models were discussed, which we will test in three large-scale demos in Austria. The aim of the project is to investigate how households can be motivated to avoid peak loads and increasingly use locally generated electricity in order to

How aviation fuel and the scent of spruce find each other and what this has to do with our European project REWOFUEL can be read in the current issue of the OÖN. Link to the newspaper article: https://tinyurl.com/mwj5ym6k