Altech Batteries has announced that it has progressed funding of its CERENERGY sodium-chloride solid-state battery project in Saxony, Germany, appointing key advisers to assist. The company, through its Germany subsidiary Altech Batteries GmbH, appointed a global big four professional services firm to assist in securing finance for the 120MWh CERENERGY battery manufacturing plant. The project’s…
Energy storage solutions provider RedEarth Energy Storage has entered into a partnership with electric vehicle technology company ambibox to produce V2G bi-directional EV chargers for Australia and New Zealand customers at its manufacturing facility in Darra, Queensland. The partnership will deliver Australian made DC EV chargers to EV owners without rooftop solar or home batteries…
SunCable International, the company planning to supply solar and wind powered electricity to Singapore via an undersea cable, has received conditional approval for the project from the Singaporean Energy Market Authority (EMA). The Conditional Approval follows a comprehensive process by the EMA which determined that AAPowerLink that aims to supply up to 15 per cent…
The Queensland government has invested $25 million in debt and equity – with a further $40 million contributed from an unnamed UK investment firm – which it says will see Energy Storage Industries – Asia Pacific (ESI) establish the nation’s first grid-scale battery factory. According to a statement on Tuesday, ESI is building the plant…
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…
The federal government has been deluged with massive offers to build solar projects in the first round of its Capacity Investment Scheme with six new big battery projects getting the green light. Two big batteries will be built in South Australia and two in Victoria with the largest in the former coal power stronghold of…
By Peter Roberts Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has topped off a national tour of green energy projects across the country with the inauguration of a community battery in Bondi, New South Wales. Flanked by CEOs Marc England of Ausgrid, Frank Calabria of Origin and Mark Collett of Energy Australia he revealed that…
The state which blazed the trail for lithium ion grid scale batteries – South Australia with the Tesla big battery in 2017 – is to get a far bigger big battery. While the Hornsdale Power Reserve, as it is properly known, originally had 129 MWh of storage, a new battery in the state’s south east…
South Australia is set to be 100 percent net renewable power by 2027 – a remarkable world first based only on solar PV and wind. Giles Parkinson explains the milestone’s importance. When the federal and state governments were deciding on a location to announce a funding deal that will underwrite South Australia’s final leap to…
Three Australian companies have been backed to develop a solar powered drone that can fly from ‘dawn to dusk’ without recharging. Battery developer Li-S Energy, in a partnership with V-TOL Aerospace and HaloCell, have been awarded a $1.35 million grant from the federal government as part of the Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships (EATP) programme. The…
