Australia’s electricity generators would be paid extra money to be available even if they don’t actually generate any energy, under a new mechanism proposed by the federal government’s Energy Security Board (ESB).
Twenty emerging researchers have been awarded funding under the state government’s WA Near Miss Awards (WANMA) program, including those developing tests and monitoring for sepsis, and new vaccines for respiratory illnesses.
A long-running quarterly industrial survey has found conditions were expansionary in the June quarter, but growth is being held back by labour and material pressures as bad as they’ve been in a half-century.
A new Setting up industrial regions for net zero report has looked at the cost and the opportunity of decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors in five major industrial regions, concluding that this will require investing in renewable energy representing an additional 25-47 per cent of the nation’s total electricity generation, or 68.3 to 125.9 terawatt hours (TWh.)
Trajan Scientific and Medical has announced it will acquire Kentucky-based analytical consumables business Chromatography Research Supplies for $US 43.3 million ($AUD 61.9 million.)
Magnesium refinery plan for Collie Perth’s South West Development Commission has progressed a bid to establish a ‘game-changing carbon neutral magnesium refinery’ at the coal mining city of Collie in Western Australia. With the nearby state-owned Muja and Collie power stations to be retired in response to massive uptake of renewables, a pre-feasibility study has…
By Tina Soliman Hunter, Macquarie University and Madeline Taylor, Macquarie University You can thank Margaret Thatcher for the gas supply crunch Australia’s east coast has been plunged into. As UK prime minister, Thatcher led the charge to kick the government out of the economy and allow the market to rule. In Australia, governments took up…
The Queensland government has announced a further $35.5 million in funding for the $80 million Translational Manufacturing facility, citing the need to commercialise more medical breakthroughs and strengthen sovereign manufacturing.
Micro-X expands US distribution network Cold cathode x-ray machine business Micro-X has announced the appointment of its second major distributor in the United States, gaining more than 100 sub-distributors, it said on Tuesday. Medlink Imaging has committed to acquiring $AUD 1 million of Micro-X’s Rover systems in the first year of the agreement to support…
By Joel Gilmore, Griffith University and Tim Nelson, Griffith University Australia’s energy market operator has just suspended the National Electricity market. That means instead of the price for wholesale electricity being set competitively, the market operator (AEMO) sets fixed prices and will take a greater role in directing which power stations generate energy and when.…
