Geelong-based battery technology company Li-S Energy has been awarded $7.86 million in Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) funding to progress its planned lithium-sulfur battery cell manufacturing facility. According to a statement from ARENA on Tuesday, the grant will support plans to scale up production to 1 gigawatt hour per year of battery cell capacity, a…
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…
McCain Foods, Sugar Australia and Blackmores will receive approximately $12 million in combined support, through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), for projects trialling and demonstrating low-emission technologies for process heat. According to a statement from the federal government agency on Tuesday, the projects will demonstrate how to reduce reliance on natural gas, as well…
Applications have opened for the third round of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) Industrial Transformation Stream (ITS), with $180 million in grant funding available for emissions reduction projects at regional industrial businesses. According to a statement from ARENA on Thursday, it is currently seeking businesses with projects aiming to transform operations to support Australia’s…
Lab360 Solar, a drone-based utility-scale solar PV inspection company formed at University of NSW, has been awarded $3.96 million in support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) Advancing Renewables Program. According to a statement from ARENA on Friday, the company uses its Daylight Photoluminescence (DPL) imaging technology to inspect solar panels from above in…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $12.3 million in funding for Mondo Power to establish an electric truck charging hub at Laverton North to “demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility for fleets to electrify their operations.” According to a statement from the agency on Thursday, the site in Melbourne’s west will include 14…
ASX-listed surface technology business AnteoTech has appointed Merrill Gray as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Scientist, engineer and executive Gray (pictured) has served a four-month period as Interim MD and CEO, and her full-time appointment is effective Tuesday. “I am excited by the prospect of taking what I have learnt and supporting increased product…
Calix has executed a $44.9 million grant agreement with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to build a green iron demonstration plant using its Zero Emissions Steel Technology, according to an announcement on Thursday. The demonstration plant will have a targeted capacity to produce 30,000 tonnes per annum of hydrogen direct reduced iron or hot briquetted…
Focus and finance were the dominant themes at Spotlight on Scaling Up, a recent half-day seminar by @AuManufacturing in partnership with AMGC, BDO, and the Australian Business Growth Fund. Keynote speakers Alf and Nadia Taylor shared their adventure from husband-and-wife engineering consultancy to an international food packaging and processing solution provider with a headcount of over 600…
Explosives manufacturer Orica has won $432 million in funding from the ARENA Hydrogen Headstart program to build a hydrogen facility at its Kooragang Island operations in Newcastle.