I see power to gas as one of the only real way to store the huge...

I see power to gas as one of the only real way to store the huge amounts of excess renewable energy and complementary to the mass rollout of solar and wind. Storing as gas only strengthens the case for distributed energy like Bluegen.

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Position Paper on Power to Gas


The Federal Network Agency yesterday (December 10, 13) published a position paper on the power to gas issue. Regulated herein the supply of electricity generated from renewable energy, hydrogen and synthetic methane into the natural gas grid (power to gas). The position paper can be up to 31 Be commented on Jan. 14.

"For the energy transition power to gas is an important technological option," said Jochen Homann, President of the Federal Network Agency. "Excess electricity from wind and solar energy can thus converted, are fed into the natural gas grid and stored there." In addition to purely scientific equipment on a laboratory scale, there are now first pilot projects in which hydrogen and synthetic methane from Power to gas plants are fed into the gas network. So far had the feeder, as well as the network operators concerned to contend with considerable legal uncertainty. "These uncertainties need to be tackled," said Homann.

"Our goal is to create more planning for new investments in the promising power-to-gas technology." The idea is therefore to strengthen the position of those companies that have committed early in the development of power to gas.

In the future, the plant operator whose power to gas plant was connected to the gas system as First, its hydrogen prohibited from feeding priority. This is important because in many areas the proportion of hydrogen may lie in the total gas amount in the network due to technical requirements, only a maximum of 2%.

In addition, the position paper addressing, inter alia, that if the introduction of hydrogen or synthetic methane in the gas network, the requirements of existing gas stations and gas-powered vehicles have to be considered at the gas quality. The position paper Power to Gas is on the website of the Federal Network Agency published. (Al)


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