Federal government awards $28 million to Relectrify to progress BESS breakthrough

Battery technology company Relectrify, which aims to provide “the operating system for the world’s best battery energy storage systems” (BESS), has been awarded $25 million through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to accelerate its AC1 BESS product. According to a statement from ARENA on Wednesday, the funding supports a project which will “deploy up…

Thin-film composite membranes ready for translation, say RMIT researchers

RMIT University researchers have developed what they say are ultra-thin filters with promise for making chemical manufacturing and recycling more energy- and cost-efficient, and are looking to bring their invention into industrial use. A statement from the university on Thursday describes the filters as combining “super-thin layers of boron nitride” and aramid synthetic fibres, offering…