Electrochaea: Power-to-Gas at the Commercial Demonstration Plant in Solothurn, Switzerland

Electrochaea is commercializing a grid-scale energy storage solution. Our proprietary power-to-gas (P2G) process converts renewable energy and carbon dioxide into grid-quality renewable methane for storage and distribution. Demonstration plants have achieved the injection of high-quality renewable methane into commercial gas grids in Switzerland and Denmark.

Electrochaea provides a technology based on biological methanation that makes it possible to store renewable energy and recycle CO2 in a cost-effective way. This technology eliminates the temporal link between energy supply and demand, allowing efficient energy and CO2 storage as renewable methane. When renewable power is available, but not immediately used, renewable methane can be produced and be stored in the gas grid, thereby enabling a growing market for renewable electric power and creating a growing source of renewable gas. The more intermittent renewable energy we generateuse for methane generation, the more valuable this technology becomes.

Following our the lessons in decarbonizing the electrical power network for the past decades, we can now turn the gas network into a renewable source of energy. This can ensure carbon-neutral energy gas supply for households, industry and transportation as well as the power grid. Electrochaea’s biomethanation technology provides a solution to decarbonize both the electricity and gas network.

More information can be found on our website: http://www.electrochaea.com/