Who says that renewable energy needs to be stored in batteries? Or in pumped storage power stations?
German company SolarFuel developed a smart technology to convert renewable electricity into synthetic natural gas, thus enabling it to be stored in conventional gas storages!
The SolarFuel power-to-gas method converts green electricity into CO2 neutral, renewable natural gas. The advantages:
- The accommodation of larger shares of renewable electricity in the energy system is possible.
- Renewable natural gas stores the electricity for long periods of time and can be accessed at all times.
- The natural gas infrastructure with its large-scale capacities can keep energy in storage for several months.
In this way, the existing natural gas network becomes a cornerstone for the renewable energy system, and provides the storage and transport capacities which are not available in the power grid.
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