New PDF release: Combining Wind Energy with Power-to-Gas. A Case Study on

Master's Thesis from the yr 2015 within the topic power Sciences, grade: 1.3, Technical college of Munich (Chair for Controlling), direction: know-how and administration, language: English, summary: The thesis’s crucial half is a case examine that investigates the commercial viability of a hybrid PtG approach, comprising a 32 MW wind park, and both an electrolyzer method, or a methanation
plant. A long term industry point of view used to be taken, thereby assuming an removal of wind feed-in price lists and extending wind curtailment degrees. The hybrid plant’s economics have been contrasted to these of the stand-alone wind park. The power-to-gas crops are meant to generate profit via both appearing cross-commodity arbitrage, or changing extra wind power. The underlying Excel version is predicated on old information and maximizes the hybrid system’s profit possible out there, given definite technological constraints. The project’s profitability used to be assessed by means of picking out a discounted funds circulation technique. assorted fuel grid constraints, curtailment degrees, plant sizes, applied sciences, in addition to varied expense prognoses have been contrasted.
Even lower than optimum stipulations for the hybrid approach, either plant setups (electrolyzer and methanation) can't be operated ecocnomic. The sales generated out there are some distance too low to hide the yearly overall charges, that are frequently pushed by means of excessive funding expenditures. provided that present gasoline costs raise considerably (about one hundred fifty% - 190%), hybrid platforms comprising a 1 MW electrolyzer might reach a marginally optimistic annual revenue lower than optimum stipulations. The case research is embedded in an all-encompassing evaluate on proper elements, that are the most important to establish such an research. those elements include the present and destiny industry surroundings, the
technological ideas and prices, power garage and power-to-gas company types, in addition to insights within the methodological technique of garage valuation.