In the wake of the changeover to renewables in the energy and transport sectors, storage systems are a key technology. They will play a major role in the energy transformation, from balancing the fluctuating feed-in...
Stephan Liese
Andreas Hinsch
Hannes FugmannSelected Posts
Episode 05: An Espresso with… Prof. Christoph Reinhart
Professor Christoph Reinhart came to Fraunhofer ISE as the winner of the Fraunhofer Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation for a research stay. He works as a building scientist and architectural educator at...
Innovation 4E
Thermal Comfort for Electric Vehicles – Longer driving range for electric vehicles through optimized battery management
What is the ideal operating temperature for electric cars? At what temperature do they perform best? The participants of the European research project JOSPEL are addressing just these questions by assessing the...
Maximilian Bruch
Design Meets Efficiency – Innovative Coating for Colored Photovoltaic Modules
The global photovoltaic market is growing rapidly. While the optimization of the efficiency, service life and price has been the main focus of solar module development up to now, the appearance of solar modules is now...
Thomas KroyerMore Posts
Agrophotovoltaics: Harvesting the Sun for Power and Produce
An old German saying says that the dumbest farmer produces the biggest potatoes. Today we can say in contrast that the clever farmer harvests solar electricity. In Germany, solar electricity is about ten times more...
Stephan Schindele
Petra Högy
Djamel MansourPhotovoltaics – the ordinary madness
SolarWorld is only the latest bankrupt PV manufacturer in Germany. Many now wonder: What is the matter with photovoltaics in Germany and what is next? When trying to answer these questions, we have to look at three...
Andreas Bett
Fully accredited and accepted worldwide: Solar collectors from all over the world are being tested in the TestLab Solar Thermal Systems at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg
The basic principle of solar-thermal collectors is simple. All utilize sunlight to warm up a heat transfer medium and thereby make heat energy available. Some supply households in our latitudes with warm water and solar...
Korbinian Kramer
