Evaluation of power to gas technology in Europe

Abstract

In the era where climate change matters the life of billions of people around the globe, greenhouse gas and CO2 emissions exceptional rates increasing in the recent years are making this change going in the wrong direction and escalating more critically, and this is manifested in many aspects of the human being life style like the recent storms invading the globe in most of the continents and the floods and the temperature raising etc.. To cope with this, the European Union urged all member states and the extension states to push further the integration of renewable energies which resulted in a gigantic electricity generation from renewable all over the continent, this introduced another challenge in efficiency to recover the surplus production especially from photovoltaic and wind. Power to Gas got introduced to boost the area of energy storage and optimizing better efficiency of existing renewable energy utilities, as well capturing CO2 in the methanation process for example. In this work of evaluating the power to gas deployment and implementation, an overview is given of the technology of power to gas itself along with introducing the economic variant within power to gas and its specificities. Later, an assessment is performed to the pilot researches and projects that have been deployed/done in most of the european countries leading in this technology, in a regional to national scale and distributed scale to emphasis on the wide portfolio and application that could be done with this technology. Afterwards, a demonstration of the executed projects is displayed along with the dashboard of the continent in this area. Finally, an overview is given on the trends and the future opportunities within this technology to open the perspective and project the business in the reality of the future technological context.