The Leibniz Research Center Energy 2050 was founded in 2010 as a Leibniz Research Initiative and was upgraded to a Leibniz Research Center in 2014. It primarily serves as a communication and networking platform for Leibniz Universität Hannover, which breaks down the "silos" of faculties and institutes and offers the professors and staff involved the necessary interdisciplinarity in finding research topics and submitting applications in energy research at LUH.
The tasks of LiFE 2050 are to research new ways - to make energy available for use more efficiently and sustainably, in particular wind energy, solar energy, water energy, bioenergy and geothermal energy, - transporting and storing energy, in particular using biological, chemical, mechanical and thermal processes, and - making consumption more efficient, in particular energy conversion, energy use and building efficiency. - Socio-political and economic framework conditions must be developed in order to make the transformation process sustainable.
