East Hartford clean-energy developer Sustainable Innovations Inc. (SI) is developing an electrochemical system to address challenges in the energy supply marketplace.
The new, trademarked system, dubbed CO2RENEW, converts waste CO2 and water to methane fuel, the primary energy carrier in natural gas. Once converted, this fuel can be stored or transported in the existing natural gas pipeline to points of need.
A key feature of SI’s system is that it uses excess, off-peak renewable power that might otherwise be wasted, and provides electric grid stabilization through energy storage.
The U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory has contracted with the company to demonstrate the electrochemical process and characterize its performance in converting CO2 to methane, the company said.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
