The DLR Institute of Future Fuels contributes to making renewable resources available to replace fossil resources. We develop solutions for how hydrogen and fuels can be produced cost-effectively on an industrial scale from the raw materials water, CO2 and nitrogen using renewable energies. One of the institute’s research focuses is on solar thermochemical processes that utilise high temperatures from concentrated sunlight to drive chemical processes. They can produce solar fuels and their starting materials with very high efficiencies and low conversion losses. In established high-temperature processes such as metal, cement or fertiliser production, such processes can reduce or even replace the use of fossil fuels. Other areas of work at the institute are the technological and socio-economic evaluation of different solar production processes and the development of solar photo-electrochemical processes for fuel production. Our research and institute administration staff work at our headquarters in Jülich and at the Cologne-Porz site.