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PTB has developed drones with precision navigation whose eight rotors enable steady-state hover flights.

30 March 2020

Determining the impact of wind turbines on flight navigation systems

Researchers are developing a forecasting tool that calculates the impact of wind turbines on aviation navigation aids.

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Dismantling a wind turbine at sea

Recycled energy systems

Wind turbines and photovoltaic modules have a limited lifetime. A number of projects are looking at how the components can be recycled.

Wind turbine

27 February 2020

Fraunhofer IWES develops the world's largest network simulator

The new test rig enables science teams to test how powerful wind turbines can optimally supply power to the grid.

HZB's record-breaking cell with an efficiency of 29.15 per cent.

14 February 2020

Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell reaches new record

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has developed a solar cell with an efficiency of 29.15 per cent from the materials perovskite and silicon.

Novel battery inverters by SMA Solar Technology

7 February 2020

New battery inverter successfully in use

The inverters developed by SMA Solar Technology in the PV Diesel funding project are used around the world for power storage projects.

On display is a large metal boiler with indicators and metal pipes leading to and from it.

18 December 2019

Flue gas as a source for synthetic fuel

Research between cooling towers: A plant is being built in Niederaußem that utilises captured carbon dioxide to produce synthetic fuels.

A look behind the scenes at the new test centre for micro gas turbines

4 December 2019

Germany's first test centre for micro gas turbines inaugurated

Small, but fine, because of low-emission: micro gas turbines can provide electricity and heat decentrally in industrial plants or private households.

Ein Kameramann filmt einen der Protagonisten des Films „Energy for Tomorrow – Innovative Geothermal Technology“ vor einer Versuchsanlage.

2 December 2019

Film shows latest geothermal energy technologies

With “Energy for Tomorrow – Innovative Geothermal Technology”, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is providing an insight into current research projects.

Triple-junction solar cells made of III-V semiconductors and silicon have the potential to raise photovoltaics to a new level of efficiency.

New record for multi-layer solar cells

With an efficiency of 34.1 per cent, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have broken the current world record.

The Jülich solar tower belonging to the German Aerospace Centre.

10 years of research at the Jülich solar tower

In contrast to commercially operated solar thermal power plants, electricity production at the Jülich solar tower is not the central concern.

View of a Francis turbine for hydroelectric power plants

Stable grids thanks to hydropower

The demand for flexible hydropower to stabilise electricity grids is growing worldwide.

With its 300 built-in sensors, the FVA nacelle at the Centre for Wind Power Drives (CWD) at RWTH Aachen University is used in numerous research projects.

Together on one (drive) train

A “transparent” wind turbine nacelle with around 300 built-in sensors formed the focus of the FVA Nacelle research project conducted by scientists at RWTH Aachen University. Together with industry representatives from the Drive Technology Research...

The highly innovative large-diameter bearing test rig for offshore wind turbines.

New large-diameter bearing test rig: Simulating 20 years in 6 months

The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems has successfully commissioned a test rig for rotor blade bearings with up to 6.5-metre diameters in Hamburg. The large-scale test rig will be used to develop new methods for designing and configuring...

A section of the new model wave channel in operation. A model wave channel has been inaugurated at the Coast Research Centre (FZK), a joint central facility belonging to Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

25 February 2019

Perfect waves inland

On 19 February 2019, a model wave channel was inaugurated at the Coast Research Centre in Hanover. The wave channel at a scale of 1:10 is a model of the Large Wave Channel (GWK) in its future expansion stage. Scientists can already investigate the...

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