ARE receives $5m grant for rare earths development Australian Rare Earths has received a $5 million grant from the federal government’s International Partnerships in Critical Minerals Program. The funding will support additional metallurgical test work, completion of a pre-feasibility study and building/operating a demonstration plant at the company’s Koppamurra project, a frontier ionic clay rare…
Australian Vanadium subsidiary VSUN Energy has completed Phase 1 of Project Lumina designed to assess the viability of constructing a vanadium flow battery energy storage system in Australia. Phase 1 was an internal analysis which has undergone an independent external review to assess whether a VFB battery electric storage (BESS) solution is likely to be…
Australian Vanadium (AVL) has completed factory acceptance testing (FAT) of a vanadium flow battery (VFB) – the first to be manufactured using Australian manufactured vanadium electrolyte. The 220kWh VFB, to be installed at a Horizon Power site in Kununurra, Western Australia, can deliver up to 78kW of power for long duration energy storage. The battery…
Battery materials company Australian Vanadium (AVL) has implemented its merger with Technology Metals Australia and has completed work on an Optimised Feasibility Study (OFS) to consolidate the two adjoining projects across one orebody. AVL said the consolidated project showed a 39 percent increase in measured and indicated categories for the high vanadium grade ore and…
Australian Vanadium receives $14.7 million grant Battery materials company Australian Vanadium has received a milestone payment of $14.7 million from the federal government under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative – Manufacturing Collaboration Stream. The grant provides up to $49 million to support the company’s Australian Vanadium Project to enable new critical mineral production which will support…
VSUN Energy’s new appointments speed adoption of vanadium flow batteries Australian Vanadium (AVL) has welcomed Steve Banning as Principal Advisor and Dr Yifeng Li as Product Development Manager for its 100 percent owned subsidiary, vanadium flow battery (VFB) manufacturer VSUN Energy. These appointments are pivotal to unlocking AVL’s ambition to accelerate the uptake of VFBs…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Australian Vanadium produces first battery electrolyte Australian Vanadium has successfully produced its first high purity vanadium electrolyte, ready for use in vanadium redox flow batteries. Production follows the commissioning of the company’s vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility in Perth in December.…
Australian Vanadium Limited has successfully produced its first high purity vanadium electrolyte, ready for use in vanadium redox flow batteries. Production follows the commissioning of the company’s vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility in Perth in December. Independent analysis of the vanadium electrolyte produced at the facility shows that the impurities in the electrolyte were well within…
Battery developer Australian Vanadium Limited (AVL) and Technology Metals Australia have completed their merger, creating a stronger business developing a mine to battery value chain for vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). The merger also brings together the companies’ adjoining mining leases at Gabanintha, south of Meekatharra in Western Australia, where AVL plans mining which will…
VSUN Energy has completed the manufacture of its first vanadium flow battery (VFB, pictured) at its Western Australian facility with factory testing being undertaken in Q1, 2024. The company, owned by vanadium producer Australian Vanadium, said the prototype residential battery has 5kWH of power and 15kWh storage capacity and would then be installed in a…
