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Title: Formate for Renewable Energy Storage.

ICCOM Principal Investigator: Hamish Andrew Miller.

Project Type: International.

Duration: 01/07/2022 – 30/06/2025.

Website: http://www.iccom.cnr.it/horizon-eu-fresh/

Abstract: FRESH aims to contribute to reducing the European Union’s dependence on fossil fuels for power generation, providing a cushion for the intermittent character of renewable electricity generation leading to stable, more predictable prices for renewable electricity, which is crucial for the future development of large-scale renewable power generation, and therefore, the energy transition. The project will achieve this through the development, construction and validation at TRL 4, of an integrated, cost competitive process for conversion of CO₂ to potassium formate using an electrocatalytic process powered by renewable electricity. The highly stable potassium formate generated by the reactor will be stored safely for long periods (from short term or seasonal) in tanks. The subsequent conversion of the stored potassium formate to electricity on demand will use a direct fuel cell system. The project includes development of the individual components (CO₂ to formate and formate to electricity), CO₂ sourcing and purification and ultimately the construction and validation of an integrated protoype at TRL 4.

Coordinator: Hamish Andrew Miller.

Partnership: ICCOM-CNR, Coval Energy BV, FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH, HYSYTECH SRL, DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET, ENGIE LABORTEC, EEMPOWER BV.

ICCOM participants: Hamish Andrew Miller, Marco Bellini, Alessandro Lavacchi, Claudio Evangelisti, Ilaria Santoni, Maria Vincenza Pagliaro, Francesco Vizza.

Financed by: European Commission Horizon Europe, project HORIZON-RIA-101069605.

Project total budget: € 2,689,252.50.

ICCOM total budget: € 418,369.75.