Synthetic Natural Gas production cost by Store&Go

Storage
Methanation

Alexi

Here to help the green H2 community

    Published on Jan 29, 2021

This STORE&GO report 8.3 gives an overview of current costs of Power-to-Gas plants - making possible to calculate the methane production costs of PtG.

Author

Store & Go

#1

Methane production cost estimated at 1.7 €/m3 (150€/MWh) at 50 % load factor and 1.1 €/m3 (115 €/MWh) at 100%. German electricity costs in 2016, 50€/tCO2, lifetime 20 yrs, discount rate: 6%. See the full methodology and cost assumptions in the report (link below).

#2

Methane production down to 100 €/MWh considering a lower CAPEX for electrolysers (590 €/kWh instead of 1180 €/kWh in the previous graph). See the full methodology and cost assumptions in the report (link below).