Wärtsilä and Q Power agree on renewables

The companies will work closely together to further develop the market and to find business opportunities for biomethanisation and synthetic fuels globally. The first target of the cooperation is to showcase a mobile demonstration plant at the Finnish pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai between October 2020 and April 2021.

“This is a perfect example of Wärtsilä’s ambitious vision of a 100% renewable energy future and demonstrates the concrete actions we want to take to develop smart technologies for sustainable societies,” explained Jaakko Eskola, president and chief executive of Wärtsilä Corporation.

“We are extremely happy and eager to work with Q Power to develop technology and concepts that help the world take concrete steps on the path towards 100% renewables,” he added.

Biomethanisation is a Power-to-X technology for producing synthetic methane. Q Power’s technology produces biomethane from hydrogen and carbon dioxide and can even use emissions and waste as raw materials to significantly increase sustainable biomethane production.

“We are thrilled to start working with a global energy leader like Wärtsilä to take forward our unique biomethanisation technology,” said Ilkka Herlin, chairman of the board of Q Power. “With this cooperation we’re able to ramp up the technology to a global scale.”