Renewable Methene for Transport and Mobility
Description
Power to gas allows using excess renewable electricity to produce Hydrogen and to transform it to renewable methane. Methane can be used to drive natural gas vehicles. The processes described use building blocks made of existing technologies, link the grids for electricity and natural gas and make large existing storage capacities accessible for renewable electricity. The system has the potential to make a huge contribution to the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050. The project tackles questions on sub-systems, business cases and politicial boundaries with an interdisciplinary team from an application and implementation point of view.
Key Data
Projectlead
Prof. Dr. Urs Baier, Prof. Dr. Markus Friedl
Project team
Prof. Dr. Karl Frauendorfer, Peter Graf, Dr. Judith Krautwald, Boris Meier, Florian Rüsch, Matthias Stucki, Dr. Rolf Warthmann, Prof. Dr. Andreas Züttel
Project partners
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL; St. Galler Stadtwerke; Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt EMPA; Universität St. Gallen; HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
Project status
completed, 10/2014 - 12/2017
Funding partner
SNSF
Project budget
600'000 CHF