Power-to-gas via microbial electrosynthesis of methane from biogenic CO2

英国政府承诺到2035年实现电力系统脱碳。为了确保这一雄心成为现实，我们需要加倍努力，部署可靠且有弹性的基础设施，以实现长期能源存储。Efuels Technologies Ltd正在开发一种新型的电力甲烷技术，以在现有的天然气基础设施中存储可再生电力。现有技术是集成的多步骤过程。它们是昂贵的并且具有差的转换效率和能量损失。我们的解决方案利用微生物电合成的科学原理，一步就能生产合成甲烷，因此成本仅为现有解决方案的一小部分。快速启动创新资金将使公司能够为该技术建立市场验证证据和实验室规模的原型。该项目将在萨里大学的能源实验室进行，资金将用于人员配备，材料和消耗品。如果该技术成功升级，发电商和聚合商可以利用削减的电力将生物源二氧化碳转化为甲烷，并从平衡能源市场内的销售服务中获利。生物源CO2可以从沼气（50- 40%CO2）中获得。该技术可以在电力和天然气行业之间建立一个独特的双向联系，这可以帮助市场参与者以更高的灵活性最大化其资产价值。

The UK Government has committed to decarbonising the electricity system by 2035\. To ensure this ambition becomes a reality, we need to double down on efforts to deploy a reliable and resilient infrastructure for long-term energy storage. Efuels Technologies Ltd is developing a novel power-to-methane technology to store renewable electricity within the existing natural gas infrastructure. Incumbent technologies are integrated multi-step processes. They are expensive and have poor conversion efficiencies and energy losses. Our solution leverages the scientific principles of microbial electrosynthesis to produce synthetic methane in one single step, and therefore at a fraction of the costs of Incumbent solutions.The Fast Start innovation funding will allow the company to build evidence of market validation and a bench-scale prototype for the technology. The project will take place in the Energy Laboratory of the University of Surrey and the funding will be spent on staffing, materials, and consumables. If the technology is successfully upscaled, generators and aggregators could use curtailed electricity to convert biogenic CO2 into methane and profit from selling services within the Balancing Energy Market. The biogenic CO2 can be obtained from biogas (50-40% CO2). The technology could create a unique bi-directional link between the electricity and gas industry, which could help market participants maximise the value of their assets with a higher degree of flexibility.