Storing Green Electricity as Natural Gas

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Storing Green Electricity as Natural Gas

German-Austrian researchers and entrepreneurs plan to store surplus electricity – such as from wind power or solar energy – as climate-neutral methane, and store it in existing gas storage facilities and the natural gas network.

For the first time, the process of natural gas production combines the technology for hydrogen-electrolysis with methanisation. "Our demonstration system in Stuttgart splits water using surplus renewable energy using electrolysis. The result is hydrogen and oxygen,"...

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