The H2 Research Centre at the Brandenburg Technical University BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, is a research laboratory and innovation test centre. It is part of the “Power-to-Gas Strategy Platform” of the German Energy Agency, dena. Through its Strategy Platform, partners from business, associations and science pool their diverse expertise and experience. The core objective is to establish power-to-gas as a reliable, cost-efficient and large-scale multipurpose option by 2020/2025, with at least 1,000 megawatts of electrolysis-based power storage installed in Germany.

• Further reading: CLEW factsheet Power-to-gas: Fix for all problems or simply too expensive?
• CLEW research tour: Is Germany the laboratory for the energy transformation of the 21st century?
• Date of publication: March 2016