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On Saturday, 20 April 2024, the Taiwanese broadcaster ‘DaAi Television 2’ aired the documentary ‘CO2 AS A COMMERCIAL GOOD – Solution or aberration’. The documentary shed light on offsetting CO2 emissions that are particularly difficult to avoid through climate protection projects. Our colleagues Johannes Reichl and Julia Haider played a central role in the discussion […]

Exciting, impressive and informative tour of the methane electrolysis plant in Kremsmünster! The Energieinstitut had the opportunity to visit the first Austrian methane electrolysis plant and plasmalysis plant of our co-operation partner RAG Austria AG in Krift (Kremsmünster). The novel and innovative production of climate-neutral hydrogen with the simultaneous extraction of solid and pure carbon

In a festive ceremony at the residence of the Austrian ambassador in Brussels, our Managing Director Robert Tichler signed the Energieinstitut’s accession to “Hydrogen Europe Research”. The Energieinstituts motivation for joining the Hydrogen Europe Research cluster as a member is to accelerate networking with other central European research institutions in the field of hydrogen research

On 7 March 2014, our expert Marie-Theres Holzleitner-Senck presented the topic “Energy efficiency in the data cycle: sustainable approaches for a resource-saving future in the energy industry” as part of the IT expert series “Sustainable IT” at Softwarepark Hagenberg. The discussion explored the connection between digitalisation, sustainability, software and artificial intelligence, shedding light on exciting

Together for a more sustainable Upper Austria! A co-operation between Oberösterreichische Nachrichten and the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz shows how small changes in everyday life can have a big impact on the climate. In this interview, our colleague Johannes Reichl describes the OÖN Climate Challenge, which calls on people to reduce their carbon footprint

Publication alert! Together with the entire consortium of the completed ERA-Net project “SuperP2G”(www.superp2g.eu), we are pleased about the publication of our article in the Oxford Open Energy Journal on the challenges for power-to-gas in Europe in recent years. The full article entitled “Perspectives on green hydrogen in Europe – during an energy crisis and towards

As part of the consortium meeting at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna, we had the opportunity to discuss open questions and further steps for the INNOnet project. In INNOnet, load-variable grid tariffs are being designed and tested in real operation with more than 1000 households in 3 demonstration areas in Austria (Netz

Our Energy Law Conference 2024 in cooperation with BEURLE Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG and Metzler & Partner Rechtsanwälte was a day filled with stimulating discussions and insights into the latest trends and challenges in energy law. The event was characterized by a series of in-depth presentations given by leading experts. Benedikt Ennser opened with

Energy storage is a key element in the technical and economic balancing of fluctuations in generation and demand. Especially in a future energy system based on renewable energies, energy storage will play an even more important role because the fluctuation of generation will increase, while energy sources such as oil or gas, which currently take

High-temperature heat pumps powered by renewable energy are the most climate-friendly option for industrial steam! The recently published article in pv magazine Global summarizes the results of the study “Life Cycle Assessment and Shadow Cost of Steam produced by an Industrial-Sized High-Temperature Heat Pump” by our colleagues Lukas Zeilerbauer, Stefan Puschnigg, Johannes Lindorfer, and Felix