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Hand in hand for secure advancement
Our team thrives on a collegial corporate culture. Our consulting strategies are dynamic, constantly growing and adapting to current demands. We mutually animate our projects in an intensive exchange, with courageous ideas, trusting cooperation and strong reflection during all project steps. r2b consists of an interdisciplinary team, which is perfectly coordinated due to many years of cooperation and is familiar with all energy industry processes.
In addition, we enjoy working with partners from science, jurisprudence and companies. What unites us all is the common passion for sound energy advice and its impact on a company and on politics. We are neither afraid of new challenges nor of explosive topics. What we approach is not the first, but the best solution for your company. We accompany our clients flexibly and with foresight, going into depth in terms of content without losing sight of the big picture. In doing so, we rely on long-term and trustworthy advice.
What sets us apart?
We don’t just advise – with our expertise, we also want to contribute to a better position in the energy industry with every project. This is a field for which we burn, in which we have grown to meet challenges and in which we have found our calling. In our eyes, supplying our society with energy has a lot in common with climbing a mountain, and not infrequently this becomes a tightrope walk in the entrepreneurial and political spheres.
Resources must be used effectively to reach the summit safely. Experienced companions are indispensable for many a climb.
This is exactly where we see our competence: to show you the right way, to define intermediate stages and, together with you, not to lose sight of the goal, no matter what challenges are waiting along the way.
This passion for applying complex scientific methods to practically relevant issues and offering innovative services steers our expertise from small projects to long-term studies to highly complex, mathematical models and tools for the energy market.
Research to business since 2009
The symbiosis of research to business, or ‘r2b’ for short, defines our consulting approach:
r coming from a scientific background, our focus is on quantitative analyses based on complex scientific methods and mathematical models
b in practice, our entrepreneurial thinking and actions are required on an individual basis: we want to support you flexibly and with foresight – and that sustainably
We also live the symbiosis of science and practice in terms of personnel: our partner and Managing Director Prof. Dr Felix Müsgens is Chair of the Department of Energy Economics and Head of the Energy Innovation Centre (EIZ) at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus. The EIZ offers pioneering research for the energy transition, both at a theoretical and applied level.
We are also a member of various associations and initiatives on future topics in the field of energy and climate and contribute our expertise to research projects on practical issues relating to the European energy market.
Memberships
Cluster Decarbonisation in Industries
www.cluster-dekarbonisierung.de/en
The CDI is a collaboration between industry, research, politics and administration, aiming to realize the vision of a greenhouse gas-neutral German industry through a nationwide network of partners.
VKU KommunalDigital
VKU represents the interests of the local public utility sector in Germany, which includes both supply and disposal services. Its platform “KommunalDigital” brings together municipal enterprises with startups, consulting firms, and product partners.
Hydrogen Power Storage & Solutions
HYPOS is the network for all those interested in the hydrogen economy, bringing together the potential of innovative SMEs with the skills of industry and the expertise of universities and research institutions.
Hydrogen Partnership Austria
HyPA activates and services stakeholders in and outside Austria for the implementation of the national hydrogen strategy. The integrated HyPA cluster advises Austrian hydrogen stakeholders at national and international level.
Current Research Projects
The research project ‘Regional analysis of the potential for the cross-modal exchange of renewable energy’ is being carried out on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport, represented by the Federal Highway Research Institute and in cooperation with our project partners Becker Büttner Held Rechtsanwälte Wirtschaftsprüfer Steuerberater PartGmbB and Prof. Dr Uwe Leprich (E&E Consult GbR).
Project description: The aim of the research project is a detailed regional investigation of various use cases, such as direct delivery or regional direct marketing, for the cross-modal exchange of renewable energies between the road, rail and, if applicable, waterway modes of transport. Storage options are also being analysed.
The research project is divided into three work packages:
- Work package 1: Identification of a representative study area
- Work package 2: Analysis of the energy demand and the identified implementation potential in the study area
- Work package 3: Recommendations for action for the local use of renewable energies across all modes of transport
In the current project, we will carry out detailed, quantitative analyses of regional potentials for the cross-modal use of renewable energies. To this end, we are analysing renewable generation potential, the use of sector coupling and, in particular, storage technologies as well as operating models for the use cases of own use, direct supply, regional marketing and land leasing within one or more representative study areas.
Project number: FE 69.0014/2023
Project duration: November 2023 to January 2025
The research project ‘Potential analysis for small wind turbines along the transport infrastructure’ is being carried out on behalf of the German Centre for Rail Traffic Research at the Federal Railway Authority and in cooperation with our project partner Rechtsanwälte Günther Partnerschaftsgesellschaft.
Project description: The aim of the research project is to determine the deployment potential of small wind turbines (SWT) in areas along the road and rail transport infrastructure. To this end, transport and ancillary transport areas with suitable technical and legal framework conditions for the use of CHP installations are to be analysed. The results are the identification of suitable potential areas for CHP and the derivation of concrete recommendations for the effective use of CHP along the German transport infrastructure.
The research project is divided into three work packages:
- Work package 1: Research to identify use cases
- Work package 2: Investigation of the potential of CHP
- Work package 3: Recommendations for action to realise the potential of CHP
In the first work package, we will analyse existing and potential use cases for CHP along the transport infrastructure in Germany. In the second step, we will carry out potential analyses for the identified use cases, taking into account the technical, legal and economic framework conditions. Finally, we will discuss the challenges of realising the future potential of CHP based on the current legal and techno-economic framework conditions and derive a catalogue of requirements and concrete recommendations for the effective use of CHP along the transport infrastructure in Germany.
Project duration: March 2024 to May 2025
