In a unique research approach, iron and its oxides are to be used in a cycle as a carbon-free chemical energy carrier for renewable energy (wind, solar). Renewable energy is used to reduce iron oxides (storage); locally and temporally separated from this, the iron is oxidized to release thermal energy for electricity generation (release). In this way, renewable energy is stored in large quantities, transported and made available free of CO2, a hitherto unsolved central challenge of the energy transformation (“Energiewende”) in the face of changing political conditions.

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