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April 29, 2013

European cooperation on Power-to-Gas for future energy system
Arnhem, the Netherlands (SPX) Apr 29, 2013
Eleven leading companies in Europe have joined forces in the newly established North Sea Power to Gas Platform to further develop the concept of Power-to-Gas (P2G): the conversion of renewable power into gas. P2G will play an increasingly important role in our future energy system, as it reduces temporal surpluses of renewable power by converting these surpluses into gases. As these gases can be used for different purposes such as transportation, domestic heating, as feedstock for the chemical ind ... read more

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