March 2022

Welcome to the InES International Newsletter

As Head of the Institute of new Energy Systems (InES), I am very pleased to introduce you to the newsletter on the institute’s activities in Africa & Central Asia. The number of international projects at InES is constantly growing and we are thus delighted to report on the various activities and results realised in joint effort with our international partners.

We are looking forward to more editions to come and hope you enjoy our first newsletter!

Yours sincerely,

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Prof Wilfried Zörner PhD

Head of Institute of new Energy Systems

Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

PROCEED: Weather station installed in off-grid settlement Tsumkwe

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In cooperation with local partners, InES has installed a modern weather station in the rural community of Tsumkwe. Due to its remote location in the northeast of Namibia, Tsumkwe is not connected to the national electricity grid. Instead, the settlement has its own energy supply system, a so-called solar-hybrid mini-grid.

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HAW Kenya II: Linking Science and Industry: 20 speakers from two continents during conference

With the successful two-day digital conference on Linking Science and Industry, the relevance of close cooperation between science and industry became evident and best practice examples were presented. The conference also marked the end of the HAW Kenya II project.

REMO: New project newsletter is online

We regularly report on our activities in the REMO project newsletter. REMO aims to align higher education in Morocco and Tunisia in RET and e-mobility more closely with local labour market conditions, while advancing research in the fields. If you are interested to receive the REMO newsletter regularly, please write an email to Ms Philine Ginsberg (philine.ginsberg@thi.de).

E-Mobility Kenya: The final results

Together wih international partners such as Siemens Stiftung and WeTu Ltd., InES supported the integration of E-mobility solutions into the so-called Water-Energy Hubs as additional electrical loads. The project was located in the Lake Victoria Region in Kenya.

Picture: (c) Siemens Stiftung

ÖkoFlussPlan: Start of construction works for "Real Lab" in Kyrgyzstan

Construction of the “Real Lab” has begun – a community house to demonstrate the use of sustainable energy solutions in high-altitude and cold climatic region of rural Kyrgyzstan.