Spinning a network to promote Power-to-X

Christian Bach sees great potential in Power-to-X technologies to make renewable energy transportable and storable in the long term. Photo: SPIN - On Thursday, 23 June, stakeholders from research, business, administration and politics met at the Zurich Innovation Park in Dübendorf for the first meeting of the newly created SPIN platform for the promotion of Power-to-X technologies. In a jointly signed declaration, they call for the potential of Power-to-X to be fully exploited to achieve climate targets. As a partner in the SPIN network, Empa is contributing its many years of scientific expertise in the area of synthetic energy carriers. Power-to-X is a term for technologies that convert renewable energy into synthetic energy carriers or raw materials for the chemical industry that can easily be transported and stored for longer periods of time. In either gaseous or liquid form, these synthetic energy carriers can replace fossil fuels in both mobility and industry. They are needed on a large scale to achieve the Federal Council's net-zero targets.