Christoph Steiner

24_7 ZEN, a 36-month-long project officially began on February 2023, and received a total grant of approximately €5.5 million euros from the European Commission within Horizon Europe under the Clean Hydrogen Partnership (CORDIS).

The ENSURE project is investigating various extreme situations that may occur in local grids in the future and ways of avoiding them. The focus is on the expected peak loads and issues relating to grid stability. The aim is to analyse which flexibilities and requirements new sector coupling technologies such as Power-to-X and X-to-Power must…

The "GreenHub" project is one of a total of eight large-scale flagship projects of the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse). Together with 16 research partners, the consortium led by OST is pursuing a clear goal: the development of systemic and innovative approaches for the production, conversion and storage of renewable energy into environmentally…

The HEPP (High Efficiency Power-to-Gas Pilot) project will be carried out from 2017 to 2020 and realized through funding from research and industry. The research results will flow into the European Union's Horizon 2020 research framework program in the Pentagon project, which involves a total of ten institutions from academic research and industry…

At the HEPP plant (High Efficiency Power-to-Methane Pilot), the IET Institute of Energy Technology is conducting research and development in the field of power-to-gas, power-to-X. In 2017, the power-to-gas team started this project with a lot of pioneering spirit. Today, almost four years after the first concept idea, the pioneering spirit is still…

Ebs Energie is expanding one of their hydropower plant to produce hydrogen in the summer time, when the electricity prices are low. The IET, together with HSLU supports them in this task by bringing expertise and conducting research on the project.

A large proportion of the rural population in Ethiopia suffers from energy poverty. For those affected, biomass (primarily firewood) is the only available source of energy. The overexploitation of Ethiopia's forests can only be stopped if the population has access to suitable fuel alternatives. Locally produced solar fuels using Power-to-X (P2X)…

The HIGGS project aims to show that the safe injection of hydrogen into the EU high pressure transmission natural gas grid is a sustainable, long-term solution to decarbonise the energy system. HIGGS is going to identify remaining weaknesses regarding H2-Readiness and develop a pathway for a stepwise integration of hydrogen in the EU gas network.