State Secretary praises forward-looking energy concepts in Sassenburg

The CYTOK® Power-to-Gas Summit took place on 5 September 2024 at Bernsteinsee in Sassenburg Experts from the energy industry, political decision-makers and partners gathered to discuss the latest developments and challenges in sustainable energy supply and storage CYTOK® GmbH is an innovative system supplier from Rostock that specialises in sustainable energy supply and energy storage with power-to-gas/power-to-X technology

The event provided an ideal platform to present CYTOK®'s patented power-to-gas technology with CCS/U (carbon capture and storage/use) and its significance for sector coupling The venue was chosen because the foundation stone for the power-to-gas reference plant was laid there six years ago This plant has been supplying the nearby holiday area with emission-free energy all year round since December 2020

In his welcoming speech, State Secretary Frank Doods (State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport, Building and Digitalisation) praised the implementation of the project despite difficult conditions such as the COVID pandemic and emphasised the importance of such forward-looking energy concepts This was followed by high-profile contributions from Rebecca Freitag, former UN Youth Delegate, Dr Ricard Petranovic from ABB AG and Marion Oelke from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf as well as Julia Bock from the WPW Group Leipzig, who spoke about technological innovations, but also about the necessary pioneering spirit and the mostly bureaucratic obstacles in the implementation of projects

A particular highlight was the presentation of CYTOK® Power-to-Gas certificates to the Japanese co-operation partner GPSS Engineering With these certificates, GPSS is authorised to use CYTOK® Power-to-Gas technology in Japanese projects This emphasises the importance of the technology for Japan and the Asian market and also highlights its growing international reach

Following a panel discussion with the District Administrator of Gifhorn, Tobias Heilmann, the guests had the opportunity to see the centrepiece of the innovative energy supply up close and experience the production of green methane live Electricity from the PV systems that cannot be consumed directly is converted into green natural gas and stored using electrolysis and the methanisation process developed by CYTOK® A unique selling point is the combustion of the green methane in a closed cycle using an oxyfuel process modified by CYTOK® This process produces 100% CO2 during combustion, which is stored as a raw material and reused for the production of green methane This process eliminates the climate-damaging properties of methane and CO2 and utilises the high potential of energy storage in the form of methane in an innovative way The hotel buildings are thus supplied with reliable and emission-free energy from the hotel's own PV systems around the clock, both during the day and at night This eliminates the need to feed surplus PV electricity into the grid The hotel has had comprehensive CO₂ management in place since 2020 and is successfully implementing CCS/U in practice.