Following an initiative in the senate of the university and organised by a then set up working group, a new project is launched to create a climate protection concept for the university to accompany the university's process towards climate neutrality.

Dr. Stephan Barth, Managing Director of ForWind, the joint center for wind energy research of the Universities of Oldenburg, Hannover and Bremen, has taken over the chairmanship of the Wind Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP) of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The 45-year-old physicist…

Already last year the energy informatics expert Prof. Dr. Astrid Nieße has been appointed to the professorship for Digitized Energy Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oldenburg. Previously, she taught and conducted research as Professor of Energy Informatics at the…

The new "Offshore Megastructures" Collaborative Research Centre led by the University Hannover is researching and developing concepts for massive offshore wind turbines. In two sub-projects, Oldenburg researchers are investigating rotor designs and wind conditions at high altitudes.

Dr. Christiane Stroth, former PPRE and REO staff member (2016-2019), is currently working at the university of Münster and involved in a project with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Germany in the field of education for sustainable development. The project is called 2°Campus, addresses school…

In order to make the best possible use of the potential of digitalisation for a secure and sustainable energy supply at an early stage and to be able to counter emerging risks for blackouts, the interdisciplinary working group "Resilience of digitalised energy systems" (under the leadership of…