Royal Dutch Shell’s purchase of German home battery maker, sonnen has cleared the way for it to enter the Australian market with a home-grown product. Sonnen has already begun manufacturing home systems at a plant in the former Holden assembly plant at Elizabeth north of Adelaide. It had plans to make 50,000 systems over five…
Brisbane’s Redbank Technologies has become the first Australian company to be accepted into the South Australian Government’s $100 million Home Battery Scheme. The company’s Australian made Smart Hybrid Inverter is one of ten brands of battery and related products accepted into the scheme which will help up to 40,000 homes install solar photo voltaic (PV)…
It is amazing how much difference a little policy innovation from governments can make to manufacturing fortunes – in this case in making lithium ion batteries. While there are a number of big factories making vehicle batteries overseas, it is action by the South Australian and, more recently, the Queensland governments which have ignited the…
Albemarle Corporation has begun earthworks on the company’s Kemerton lithium hydroxide (LiOH) conversion plant, deepening Australia’s burgeoning lithium products industry. The plant, at the Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area, in Western Australia, will have an initial capacity of 60,000 metric tons of lithium hydroxide (LiOH) when commissioned in 2021. Eric Norris, Albemarle President, Lithium said in…
Canada’s Eguana Technologies has become the third energy storage group to announce it will set up facilities in Adelaide to assemble and manufacture lithium ion battery storage systems. Attracted by the state’s subsidised home renewables scheme, Eguana joins Sonnen and Alpha-ESS who will make batteries at the former Holden assembly plant north of the city.…
Analysis by Peter Roberts. Step-changes in technology are accompanied by the demise of companies and industries, but negative economic effects are almost always outweighed by new business opportunities that emerge. As renewable take hold in electrical generation in Australia numerous companies have been formed or taken the opportunity to diversify. Examples include solar-voltaic panel manufacturer,…
Adelaide appears likely to get a second factory for producing lithium ion batteries, following an announcement on Wednesday that Alpha-ESS had signed an agreement to produce over 8,000 of their home battery systems a year.
A fully capable mine to finished product lithium supply chain is closer to a reality with the approval of a giant lithium refinery at Bunbury, south of Perth. The WA government has given Albemarle Corporation environmental approval for a lithium manufacturing plant in the State’s South-West. When in operation, the Albemarle plant will process spodumene…
A Bloomberg New Energy Finance report released on Wednesday has put Australia in the top nine adopters of battery storage, and predicts the capital cost of utility-scale storage to more than halve over the next 12 years.
Garry Cox posts: German company Sonnen has announced it will begin assembling lithium-ion batteries at the former Holden plant in Adelaide within a month. The plant, which will move to full manufacture as demand ramps up, has been given a massive boost by the new state government’s solar rooftop/battery storage scheme which was launched this…
