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We are very pleased to be an important part of the European consortium of the EUH2STARS research project, which will make Upper Austria the centre of seasonal storage of renewable energies (via hydrogen) in Europe! In this European reference project, the consortium leader RAG Austria AG, together with LINZ AG, AGGM Austrian Gas Grid Management […]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the entire team at the Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz. We look back on a year full of innovations and progress and thank our dedicated team and partners for the successful cooperation. May the festive season inspire us to continue working on sustainable and new energy

Broadening horizons! This was the motto of yesterday’s workshop with guest professor Dr. José Hernán Muriel-Ciceri (Tecnológico de Monterrey, LIT Law Lab) from Mexico, who provided us with insights into Colombian energy law and the potentials and hurdles of renewable energies in the country. Our colleagues Michael Denk, Jovana Winkler and Argjenta Veseli had the

The Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz was featured in the Upper Austrian edition of the Kronen Zeitung this Sunday. On the occasion of the awarding of the State Prize for Innovation at the beginning of November, the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz and in particular our Heat Highway project were featured on a whole page.

Our colleague Giulia Garzon was part of a productive project meeting with our Social License to Automate 2.0 partners and she presented preliminary research results at the BEHAVE 2023 Conference on Nov. 27-29 in Maastricht! Focused efforts during the meeting shed light on key aspects, and anticipated further advancements in our collective research. Aims of the project

The first ETIP PV Social White Paper has been released: Towards Sustainable and Massive Deployment of Photovoltaics: The Nexus of Socio-Economic and Technological Challenges. Rudolf Kapeller had the pleasure to contribute chapter 1.4 on „Acceptance of novel true-cost pricing grid tariff schemes“: Electricity consumption is independent of the load situation in the grid and is hardly

Provincial Councillor for Economics and Research Markus Achleitner: “With the research results of the new endowed professorship ‘Energy Economics and Applied Econometrics’ at the Future Energy Lab of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) at the JKU Linz, the energy transition can be implemented even faster” The new endowed professorship in “Energy Economics and Applied

Our two experts Argjenta Veseli and Hans Böhm presented specific analyses of the Carbon Cycle Economy Demonstration (C-CED) project in the context of hydrogen and CCU at the WIVA P&G annual event. Hans Böhm discussed the potential of CCU (carbon capture and utilisation) in Austria – both in the future “residual supply” and in the

Last month, the kick-off meeting of the project ZEUS – Zero Emission throUgh Sectorcoupling took place! The Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz is a partner in this project and has attended the kick-off meeting with three motivated people (Robert Tichler, Hans Böhm and Andreas Zauner). The focus is on the development and cross-sectoral demonstration of

How big is the challenge of decarbonising peak loads in the heat supply? Despite the increasing use of renewable energy sources, heating networks are still predominantly dependent on fossil fuels. In order to achieve complete decarbonisation, heat peak loads must be addressed effectively. Today we have launched the RE-PEAK project, which aims to analyse the