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Energy and Climate

The energy research performed at PSI focuses on processes that can be used in sustainable and safer technologies, ideally with minimal CO2 emissions. The main emphasis is on renewable energy sources. The ESI (Energy System Integration) platform enables research and industry to test solutions for integrating renewables into the existing energy supply. Another focus in this area is the safer use of nuclear energy. These activities are supplemented by analyses giving a comprehensive assessment of energy systems. PSI scientists in the Energy and Environment division study the chemical processes that take place in the atmosphere.

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25 September 2020
Battery 2030

BATTERY 2030+ – large-scale European initiative for battery research starts up

Energy and Climate Energy transition

Future batteries need to store more energy, have longer life, and be safer and more environmentally friendly than today's batteries. The European initiative BATTERY 2030+, in which PSI is participating, is intended to help achieve these goals.

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11 September 2020
Expeditionsleiterin Margit Schwikowski mit einem Eisbohrkern

The cold memory of the earth

Media Releases Energy and Climate

Within the framework of an international project, researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI are helping to save a valuable environmental and climatic archive. During an expedition 4,000 metres above sea level on Grand Combin in the Alps, they are drilling ice cores from melting glaciers to preserve them in Antarctica.

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15 May 2020
Christian Bauer und Romain Sacchi

Life cycle assessment of cars – new web tool helps consumers and researchers

Media Releases Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

Decision support for car buyers: Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have developed a web tool called the Carculator that can be used to compare the environmental performance of passenger cars in detail.

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5 May 2020
Tom Kober

Long-term developments of energy pricing and consumption in industry

Media Releases Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, on behalf of a research project funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), have studied how energy consumption by Swiss industry develops depending on energy prices. One result: Price increases for energy usually affect energy consumption only over the long term.

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13 March 2020
Teaser: Erstmals chemische Reaktionen direkt im Feinstaub nachgewiesen

First-time direct proof of chemical reactions in particulates

Media Releases Environment Energy and Climate

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a new method to analyse particulate matter more precisely than ever before. With its help, they disproved an established doctrine: that molecules in aerosols undergo no further chemical transformations because they are enclosed in other particulate matter.

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4 March 2020
Teaser Interview Christian Bauer

"Electric is already the right choice today"

Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

An interview on automotive power systems with Christian Bauer, a scientist at PSI's Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis who specialises in life cycle and sustainability analyses.

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18 February 2020
Teaser Vorfahrt für E-Autos

Make way for electric cars

Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

Petrol, diesel, fuel cell or electric – which is the automobile of the future? A PSI study has examined the overall climate impact of various vehicle engines in use today and also projected it to the year 2040.

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3 February 2020
Teaser Mobilität von morgen

Toward better motors with X-ray light

Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

Making Switzerland's road traffic fit for the future calls for research, first and foremost. In the large-scale research facilities of PSI, chemists and engineers are investigating how to improve the efficiency of motors and reduce their emissions.

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14 October 2019
Teaser Interview Petr Novák

From the Walkman to the electric car

Media Releases Energy and Climate Materials Research

Three researchers share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are being honoured for their respective contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries. Petr Novák of PSI likewise works in this area of research and has known the three laureates personally for decades. In an interview, he tells about sitting directly across from one of them at the crucial moment.

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20 September 2019
Teaser 13 Monate in der Arktis

Thirteen months in the Arctic

Environment Energy and Climate

A PSI research project investigating atmospheric chemistry will be on board the icebreaker Polarstern on 20th September 2019. Researcher Julia Schmale talks about the upcoming expedition and her role in it.

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10 September 2019
Teaser Interview mit Tom Kober

"This is incredibly ambitious"

Energy and Climate Renewable Energies Energy transition

Every three years, the World Energy Council explores possible developments of the global energy system under different scenarios. Tom Kober, head of the Energy Economics Group in PSI’s Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis and one of the lead authors of the study, explains what the individual scenarios mean and how global warming could be mitigated.

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15 August 2019
Xiaohan Wu (links) und Federica Marone

Observing solid-state batteries during deformation

Energy and Climate Research Using Synchrotron Light Future Technologies Industrial co-operation Energy transition

PSI researchers have observed mechanical processes in solid-state batteries with unprecedented precision. Using X-ray tomography at the Swiss Light Source SLS, they discovered how fissures inside the batteries propagate. These insights can help to make batteries for electric cars or smartphones safer and more efficient.

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25 July 2019
Teaser Forschen über den Wolken

Research above – and about – the clouds

Environment Energy and Climate

At the Jungfraujoch research station, PSI scientists study particulate matter in the atmosphere. And have to deal with the fact that the human body is not made for life at 3,500 metres above sea level.

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3 July 2019
teaser power to x

The energy system of the future and Power-to-X

Media Releases Energy and Climate Renewable Energies ESI Platform Energy transition

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI analyse the potential of Power-to-X for Switzerland's energy supply and present their conclusions in a white paper. One finding: The costs for energy from Power-to-X could fall by up to one-third.

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13 June 2019
teaser an frischer luft und im smog

In fresh air and in smog

Environment Energy and Climate

PSI researchers drill through millennia-old glacier ice in the high mountains and analyse the world's highest particulate concentrations in Delhi, India. They are helping to address questions regarding climate change and to reduce air pollution.

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5 June 2019
remap

Testing the energy system of the future today, as realistically as possible

Energy and Climate Renewable Energies ESI Platform Energy transition

With the kick-off of the ReMaP project, companies have another opportunity to test their vision for the energy system of the future now. PSI's ESI platform helps to make better and more intelligent use of renewable energy in the future.

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11 March 2019
teaser picture

Cladding tubes and their properties

Energy and Climate Nuclear Power Plant Safety Research Using Neutrons

In the Nuclear Energy and Safety Research Division at PSI, Johannes Bertsch focuses on the so-called cladding tubes that are used in nuclear power plants.

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15 February 2019

Watching electrons and switching bits on

Micro- and Nanotechnology Energy and Climate Future Technologies Materials Research Industrial co-operation Research Using Synchrotron Light Research Using Neutrons

Electronics should get smaller, faster, and above all more energy-efficient. These themes are also present in several research groups at PSI. From incremental improvements to complete rethinking – who is currently working on what?

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19 December 2018

New paths for energy with hydrogen

Energy and Climate Renewable Energies ESI Platform Energy transition

At the ESI Platform at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers are seeking solutions for Switzerland's energy future and improving the efficiency of modern forms of renewable energy. With a mini gas turbine, they now have closed another energy cycle.

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17 October 2018
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Why the Little Ice Age ended in the middle of the 19th century

Media Releases Energy and Climate Environment

In the first half of the 19th century, a series of large volcanic eruptions in the tropics led to a temporary global cooling of Earth's climate. That Alpine glaciers grew and subsequently receded again during the final phase of the so-called Little Ice Age was due to a natural process. This has now been proven by PSI researchers on the basis of ice cores.

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