Against the background of a growing share of intermittent renewables, such as wind and solar, the challenges of temporal and spatial grid balancing will increase in the future. Combined energy and storage technologies, such as Power-to-Product (P2X), represent promising solutions for this multi-dimensional balancing
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Die Energie aus Bioabfällen effizient nutzen: Eine am Paul Scherrer Institut PSI entwickelte und gemeinsam mit dem Zürcher Energieversorger Energie 360° erfolgreich getestete Technologie macht das möglich. Sie holt deutlich mehr Biomethan aus den Abfällen herausg…
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Das Bundesamt für Energie (BFE) lässt regelmässig die Potenziale, Kosten und Umweltauswirkungen von Stromproduktionstechnologien untersuchen. Diese dienen sowohl als Grundlage für die Energieperspektiven als auch für das im neuen Energiegesetz vorgeschriebene…
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With a technology developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, around 60 percent more biogas can be produced from bio-waste than with conventional methods. But can it stand the test in practice as well? A 1,000-hour test at the Werdhölzli biowaste digestion and wastewater treatment plant…
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Bioenergy has a significant potential to substitute fossil fuels and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for heating, high temperature processes and electricity production. The use of biomass according to the cascade principle, first for food and goods and then the use of resulting residues…
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Biomass has great potential in Switzerland for future heat and electricity generation and fuel production. This potential is far from being exhausted. Energy derived from wood, farm manure and waste can be stored and whenever there is no wind or sunshine. For the first time, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Resear…
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