Power-to-X is gaining more and more ground in politics, economy, society and also in the media. And, Power-to-X is arriving more and more in practice.

Here is another example: Fuel directly from sunlight

The world's first industrial plant for solar fuels is planned by the Swiss company Synhelion. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is funding a corresponding research project with almost 4 million euros as part of its energy research program in order to promote the expansion of synthetic fuels in Germany and Europe. Synhelion will use the funding to build the world's first industrial plant for solar fuels. The project is being carried out by Synhelion Germany GmbH, the German Aerospace Center e.V. (DLR) and the Solar Institute Jülich of the Aachen University of Applied Sciences (SIJ).

The aim of the project is to build and operate the world's first industrial-scale solar fuel production plant at Brainergy Park Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia. The plant will cover the entire integrated technology chain from concentrated sunlight to synthetic liquid fuel for the first time on an industrial scale. The specific end products will be solar kerosene and solar gasoline. The planned plant makes use of the solar thermal process developed by Synhelion for the production of synthetic fuels, which is based on process heat from concentrated sunlight.

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