Techno-Economic Assessment Of Production And Transport Of Synthetic Methane From PV And Wind Energy

Andreas Patha; Johannes Kathan; Judith Kapeller; Stefan Reuter; Philipp Ortmann; Christoph Zauner

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Techno-Economic Assessment Of Production And Transport Of Synthetic Methane From PV And Wind Energy

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Andreas Patha¹^{, *}, Johannes Kathan¹, Judith Kapeller¹, Stefan Reuter¹, Philipp Ortmann¹, Christoph Zauner¹

¹Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria

^*Corresponding author. Email: andreas.patha@ait.ac.at

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Andreas Patha

Available Online 11 July 2024.

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Keywords: synthetic methane; SNG; PV; wind power; levelized costs of SNG
Abstract: This study investigates the methanation of green electricity from a combined wind and PV power plant with a peak capacity of 250 MW in three different countries (Chile, UAE, Tunisia) and the transport of the produced methane to Austria. The production costs were calculated through a simulation on an hourly basis over a span of 20 years. The economically ideal size of the conversion components were determined in a parameter study. The specific transport costs were calculated on an annual basis. An optimistic and a pessimistic scenario were defined to represent the uncertainty of costs and technical parameters as well as two years of initial investment (2030, 2040) to reflect the possible technical and economical improvement of elements along the chain. Transport from Chile and the UAE was assumed by ship in a liquefied state and from Tunisia by pipeline in a gaseous state. The resulting import costs from Tunisia were 140 - 271 €/MWh, from Chile 150 - 356 €/MWh and from the UAE 183 - 420 €/MWh.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the International Renewable Energy Storage and Systems Conference (IRES 2023)
Series: Atlantis Highlights in Engineering
Publication Date: 11 July 2024
ISBN: 10.2991/978-94-6463-455-6_10
ISSN: 2589-4943
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-455-6_10 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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