BERLIN, Nov 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — The Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin is set to become the first hotel and eventlocation worldwide with a negative CO₂ balance when generating heat. Thanks to the methane plasmalysis technology developed by Graforce, the MOA Berlin will not only generate its heat without any emissions. It will also be able to extract CO₂ from the atmosphere – while heating. Thus, the “MOA-H2eat” solution was just awarded with the German Gas Industry Innovation Prize, because of “An approach that revolutionizes the heating market and contributes to decentralized decarbonization,” the jury said.
The MOA Berlin is no longer heating with natural gas but with hydrogen from biogas. The methane plasmalysis technology splits the biogas into hydrogen and solid carbon. Using electricity from renewable energies, methane plasmalysis is just as climate-friendly as electrolysis – but the costs are significantly lower.