Renewable energy is increasingly abundant and future investment will allow it to meet the growing energy demand in the world . A critical component for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy is converting electrical power obtained from renewable sources into synthetic fuels that can be used in transportation or stored to be used on-demand . Reducing CO2 into value-added products would produce synthetic fuels or commodity synthetic hydrocarbon molecules, while simultaneously contributing to reduce atmospheric CO2 through carbon capture and utilization .