Australia’s Generative AI Opportunity, a report released by Microsoft and the Tech Council of Australia, claims that manufacturing is in the top four parts of the Australian economy to share in an economic boost estimated to be worth between $45 billion and $115 billion annually by 2030. Generative AI (GAI) is a term referring to…
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While solar PV is already sufficient for domestic use a step change in efficiency and cost is necessary for it to be the solution to future access to energy for industry, according to a new report. A white paper on the potential of ultra low-cost solar (ULCS) launched today by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency…
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By Peter Roberts The Minister for Climate Change and Energy has celebrated a year of achievement on tacking climate change, lambasted the climate ‘fantasy’ of the former Morrison government and outlined his next task – the creation of sector specific decarbonisation plans. In a major speech to the Clean Energy Council Bowen said he would…
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The Western Australian government’s Investment Attraction Fund has committed $148.4 million for 40 new projects, including $5 million for one of the state’s first end-to-end green hydrogen production systems. Infinite Green Energy’s (IGE’s) green hydrogen production system in Northam in the state’s wheatbelt will host the small scale green hydrogen production system to supply the…
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Perth international shipbuilder has welcomed the arrival of the Austal USA built USS Canberra to Sydney ahead of the vessel’s commissioning on Saturday. Originally designed at Austal Australia and built by Austal at its shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, the Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Canberra sailed close to the Royal Australian Navy vessel HMAS Canberra.…
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Gravity energy storage system developer Green Gravity the construction phase at Green Gravity’s Gravity Lab energy storage demonstration system (Pictured). Gravity Lab is a research and development facility designed to test the use of gravity to store and release energy. The facility was constructed in partnership with BlueScope Steel utilising disused mineshafts to obtain high…
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Student enrolments in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) have declined in the 12 months to December 2022, according to a new study.. The latest students and courses 2022 report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) shows that there were 1,196,535 students enrolled in government-funded VET in 2022, down by 4.3 percent…
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $3.7 million in funding to energy demand response specialist Enel X to demonstrate and scale flexible energy demand solutions in the commercial and industrial refrigeration sector. The ‘Unlocking Flexible Demand in the Commercial Refrigeration Sector’ project is seeking to recruit 440 supermarkets and 13 refrigerated warehouses to…
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Sydney-based quantum computing startup Diraq has been awarded a $3 million grant from the NSW Quantum Computing Commercialisation Fund (QCCF) to assist with R&D. Diraq, which is aiming to enable up to billions of spin-based qubits on a circuit using CMOS chip fabrication processes, was awarded the grant following an “extensive peer review by a…
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Applications opened on Tuesday morning for the Plastics Technology stream of the federal Recycling Modernisation Fund, offering grant funding of between $1 million and $20 million each to projects concerned with hard-to-recycle plastics. According to a statement from federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek, up to $60 million in total would support projects including: advanced recycling…
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