NEWS New Initiative for SDG7: RAEL/​UC Berkeley-Berlin Reiner Lemoine Institute Energy Access GroupAugust 25, 2017

RAEL looks for­ward to a new part­ner­ship with the Rein­er-Lemoine Insti­tute in Berlin, Ger­many. On August 28^th, RLI and RAEL togeth­er will sign a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing on the scope of their part­ner­ship. In this ini­tia­tive, the part­ners have cre­at­ed the Berke­ley-Berlin Ener­gy Access Group (BBEAG) head­ed by Philipp Blechinger and Daniel Kam­men. At RLI, Philipp is head of the research field Off-Grid Sys­tems.

Based on the 7^th UN Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal (SDG7) to ensure access to afford­able, reli­able, sus­tain­able, and mod­ern ener­gy for all, RLI and RAEL have cre­at­ed the Berke­ley-Berlin Ener­gy Access Group (BBEAG) in order to

• joint­ly work on mod­els and tools for elec­tri­fi­ca­tion mod­el­ling and planning,
• explore new fields of sus­tain­able ener­gy-water-food sup­ply and transport,
• pro­vide advice for pub­lic and pri­vate decision-makers,
• joint­ly devel­op projects and apply for project funding,
• estab­lish aca­d­e­m­ic exchange among both insti­tu­tions and oth­er inter­na­tion­al partners.

We look for­ward to a fruit­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion, in which we will ben­e­fit from our respec­tive areas of exper­tise, meet the goals devel­oped with­in our part­ner­ship, and cre­ate last­ing synergies.

If you are inter­est­ed in these research top­ics and col­lab­o­ra­tion, please con­tact Philipp Blechinger and Daniel Kam­men

For the announce­ment on the Rein­er Lemoine Insti­tute web­site, click here.