MISSION project creating SF6-free switchgear

Posted on: 14 January 2025

The MISSION project is developing and demonstrating SF6-free switchgear components for the future AC and DC electricity systems.

The MISSION project is developing and demonstrating SF₆-free switchgear components for the future AC and DC electricity systems.

SF₆ gas has been used in high voltage switchgear for over 50 years.

SF₆ is technically great, but it is also the strongest greenhouse gas – 24,300 times than CO2. The EU will now phase it out.

In order to build a strong and sustainable electric grid, we need an alternative to SF₆ gas. That is why the MISSION project is working to create SF₆-free switchgear technologies.

First SMR deal in Argentina is nuclear investment landmark

Eastern Europe's systemic blueprint for replacing coal

Baker Hughes and Kodiak in 1.8GW power-gen alliance

OMV gets €450m EIB loan for Austria green hydrogen project

Join the community for freeAnd get access to all content

Related projects

Mission

View project

Latest content

MISSION: New and SF6-free components for the energy transition

MISSION is a pioneering Horizon EU-project addressing a narrow, but impactful, part of the green transition

Guest/partner contributor
15/10/2024

Advancing grid decarbonisation with SF6 free switchgear in the MISSION project

The MISSION initiative is setting a new benchmark in HV sustainability by proving that SF6 free technology is both technically sound and economically feasible.

Guest/partner contributor
23/04/2026

SP Energy Networks installs UK’s first SF6-free switchgear

SP Energy Networks has energised non-sulphur hexafluoride (SF6-free) switchgear from Lucy Electric, which they say is the UK's first.

Yusuf Latief
13/05/2025

Latest in Digitalisation

All articles

Partner content

Why grid reliability is won and lost at the edge

For decades, grid reliability has largely been managed from the top down, with utilities relying heavily on centralised systems, writes Stefan Zschiegner.