The federal government has today released Australia’s first National Battery Strategy, supporting a Future Made in Australia as global demand for batteries is set to quadruple by 2030. According to a joint announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Industry Minister Ed Husi, the Strategy maps a path for Australia to take advantage of this…
DroneShield in new US defence order Drone countermeasure manufacturer DroneShield has received a repeat order of $5.7 million from a U.S. Government customer for a number of its C-UxS (Counter-UxS, pictured) systems. C-UxS refers to counterdrone systems targeting multi-domain aerial, ground and maritime surface drones. The delivery, involving multiple DroneShield product lines, is expected to…
By Nicholas Way Mick Henricks is a rare breed – someone who has been able to turn his lifelong passion into his livelihood. The blacksmith behind the Roma-based The Farmer’s Forge in southern, central Queensland, he has been able to turn his passion for metal and woodwork since his school days into a growing business.…
A new study has found that moving from diesel power to an all-electric fleet of underground vehicles is competitive in an Australian mine. Miner IGO and Perenti Group and ABB released their collaborative white paper which found that converting the Cosmos Nickel Project in Western Australia to an all-electric underground fleet is technically feasible and…
Clean energy technology company AnteoTech has revealed that its battery anode technology is to be incorporated into prototype batteries being developed by a major electric vehicle manufacturer. The company, which recently held discussions with battery manufacturers at the 14th international Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) in Strasbourg, France, met with the project management team from…
Turquoise Group has successfully produced hydrogen and graphene powder from methane or natural gas at its commercial demonstration plant (pictured) at Darra, Brisbane. The announcement, from Pure Hydrogen Corporation which owns 40 percent of Turquoise, said that the company’s CDP has used its proprietary methane plasma pyrolysis technology to break down methane (CH4) into its…
The federal government has called for applications from industry-research teams for the new $36 million Critical Technologies Challenge Program, aiming to “capture the power and potential of quantum technologies to address nationally significant challenges”. In a statement from industry minister Ed Husic on Wednesday, it was said that the program will speed up commercialisation for…
By Kylie Turner, Climateworks Centre and Luke Brown, Climateworks Centre In the budget last week, the government was keen to talk about its efforts to turn Australia into a renewable superpower under the umbrella of the Future Made in Australia policies. Future Made is a framework that sets out how to target green subsidies to…
The CSIRO has released the 2023-24 version of its annual GenCost report, which has been running since 2018 and provides analysis on the cost of building out energy generation and storage, backing renewables as the cheapest category of new energy. According to a statement from the scientific agency on Wednesday, GenCost incorporates changes based on…
The NSW government has awarded $3.2 million in new funds to Transgrid and $5.2 million to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to hire more technical staff, which it says will help fast-track grid connections for four battery projects. The Transgrid grant will fund extra technical staff on grid connections to reduce the risk of…
