Liquid hydrocarbons are considered as an option to store renewable energy while decoupling the supply and demand of renewable resources. They can also be used as transportation fuel or as feedstock for the chemical industry and are characterized by a high energy density. A process concept using renewable energy from fluctuating wind power and CO 2 to produce liquid hydrocarbons was modeled by a flowsheet simulation in Aspen Plus®. The capacity of the plant was set to 1 of hydrogen input, using water electrolysis, reverse-water-gas-shift reaction (RWGS) and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. A feed of 30 /ℎ of H 2 generated 56.3 /ℎ (12,856 /) of liquid hydrocarbons. A Power-to-Liquid efficiency of 44.6 % was calculated for the base case scenario. Net production cost ranged from 12.

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