New tracker makes the Swiss power-to-X landscape visible
More than 50 projects in Switzerland are already converting renewable electricity into chemical energy carriers such as hydrogen or fuel (Power-to-X). The Coalition for Green Energy & Storage and the Swiss Power-to-X Collaborative Innovation Network SPIN are making them visible with a tracker.
Renewable electricity can be stored in chemical energy carriers such as hydrogen, synthetic fuel and methane (Power-to-X). According to a press release from the Swiss Power-to-X Collaborative Innovation Network SPIN, more than 50 projects in this area are already underway in Switzerland.
Together with the Coalition for Green Energy & Storage(CGES), SPIN is therefore launching a tracker that provides an overview of known projects in Switzerland. The resulting map makes visible those projects that have gone beyond laboratory tests and have already become demonstration projects or even commercial applications. SPIN collects the data, CGES visualizes it.
“The tracker facilitates collaboration by providing a structured database that promotes synergies between stakeholders and supports decision-making,” Christoph Sutter and Antonello Nesci, co-directors of CGES, are quoted as saying in the press release.
Martin Bäumle sees power-to-X technologies as the key to defossilizing the economy. “With the tracker, we are creating transparency, strengthening collaboration and helping to turn promising ideas into scalable solutions,” said the National Councillor (Green Liberal/ZH) and Co-President of SPIN. “Reliable data can help policy makers to adapt regulations and investors to identify new opportunities.”
The map will be presented at the CGES annual event, which will take place on November 21 at Swissgrid in Aarau. CGES is a coalition of partners from business, academia and the public sector for green energy, founded by the ETH Domain.