Luca Schmidlin

24_7 ZEN, a 36-month-long project officially began on February 2023, and received a total grant of approximately €5.5 million euros from the European Commission within Horizon Europe under the Clean Hydrogen Partnership (CORDIS).

The HEPP (High Efficiency Power-to-Gas Pilot) project will be carried out from 2017 to 2020 and realized through funding from research and industry. The research results will flow into the European Union's Horizon 2020 research framework program in the Pentagon project, which involves a total of ten institutions from academic research and industry from five European countries.

At the HEPP plant (High Efficiency Power-to-Methane Pilot), the IET Institute of Energy Technology is conducting research and development in the field of power-to-gas, power-to-X. In 2017, the power-to-gas team started this project with a lot of pioneering spirit. Today, almost four years after the first concept idea, the pioneering spirit is still present at our HEPP plant, only the pioneering romanticism has been partly caught up by everyday life.

At the Institute of Energy Technology at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, research is being conducted in the field of synthetic energy carriers. A promising possibility for energy storage is the synthesis of hydrogen and carbon dioxide to methanol.

The Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER HaE) has been dedicated to researching storage in the energy system since 2014. The SCCER HaE is supervised by Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency.

The EU project Pentagon involved ten institutions from academic research and industry from five European countries, and run from 2016 to 2020.

Theoretical studies had shown that power-to-gas plants can make a decisive contribution to the conversion of the energy supply from fossil to renewable energy sources. The IET is putting this theory into practice and thus making a decisive contribution to the maturation and deployment of the technology.