TotalEnergies and start-up company Tree Energy Solutions (TES) announced that they will be teaming up on the construction of a synthetic natural gas plant in the US. The plant will produce ‘green’ hydrogen and carbon dioxide to produce a methane-like gas which can be burnt as fuel.
The project is estimated to produce 100,000-200,000 metric tonnes of synthetic natural gas annually. The announcement also highlights President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act which aims to draw clean energy infrastructure investment away from Europe and towards the US.
Wind and solar power will be used by the plant to make hydrogen combined with carbon dioxide, resulting in synthetic methane. This product essentially has the same chemical structure as natural gas – thus, ‘synthetic natural gas’.
President of Gas, Renewables & Power at TotalEnergies, Stéphanie Michel, said:
“This synthetic fuel will contribute to the energy transition by helping our customers to decarbonize their activities, notably the ones that are difficult to electrify.”
This view was concurred by the CEO of TES, Marco Alverà, TotalEnergies new partner. Marco Alverà. He said:
“The strategic cooperation with TotalEnergies is an important milestone towards large-scale e-NG production. Our purpose and vision are to accelerate the race to zero emissions and the development of hydrogen.”
