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The increasing trend towards equipping buildings with active room cooling technology is expected to continue due to the warming climate and thus potentially place additional strain on the electricity grid. In our latest article, Rudolf Kapeller, Simon Moser, Johannes Reichl (Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz), Marianne Bügelmayer-Blaschek, Barbara Herndler, Thomas Natiesta, Roman Schwalbe (AIT Austrian […]

The EU project HyUSPRe is researching the feasibility and potential of underground hydrogen storage in Europe. The 4th newsletter on current and future activities in the project (www.hyuspre.eu) was recently published and can be read at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/yc2dybvs The progress of HyUsPRe will be presented during the EU Hydrogen Research Days as part

Wow! Prize for Innovation for the HeatHighway project led by the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz! The Upper Austrian State Prize for Innovation was awarded for the 30th time this year. With the HeatHighway project led by our key researcher Simon Moser, the colleagues at the Energieinstitut were able to secure first place in the

As part of the maxE project – charging infrastructure for maximum electrification on construction sites – we had the exciting opportunity to experience the use of battery-electric construction machinery and equipment and its charging infrastructure, the VOLTstation, live in action during a construction site tour. The direct exchange with the users provided us with valuable

The rise of renewable energies, especially solar energy, poses new challenges for grid management. In our current article, Johannes Reichl, Rudolf Kapeller, Andrea Kollmann and Jed Cohen present promising results on how households can be motivated to consume energy in line with renewable energy production times. Solar bonus: Households in our 1-year field test were

Congratulations to our colleague Simon Moser, who is leading the Heat Highway project! In this project, the topic of district heating transmission networks and industrial symbiosis is being examined together with 16 project partners. Simon Moser has recognised the topic as a theoretical concept and has taken the lead in setting up the project and

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