Titomic announces sale of TKF metal 3D printing systems 3d printer manufacturer Titomic has announced the sale of cold spray additive manufacturing systems and associated equipment to Spanish technology centre Fundacion Centre Technologico Miranda de Ebro (CTME). The sale includes D633 medium-pressure and D523 low-pressure cold spray systems, a powder feeder and integrated spray booth…
Clean energy company MGA Thermal has secured an additional $5.7 million in funding, taking its recent funding round total to approximately $14 million. The company, which is demonstrating the scale and industrial capabilities of its thermal energy storage systems, was supported by returning investors including Main Sequence, Melt Ventures and new investor JEKARA. The funding…
Sydney’s biggest water storage behind Warragamba dam, Lake Burragorang is proposed as the site for a pumped hydro project that could generate enough electricity to up to 500,000 homes and businesses. ZEN Energy is proposing to turn degraded coal industry land at Nattai on the escarpment above the lake into a 1,000 megawatts (1GW) Western…
1414 Degrees has announced the completion of the demonstration phase of its $6 million SiBox thermal energy storage project ready for commercialisation. The company, which is developing the SiBox technology in partnership with Woodside Energy Technologies, said the system had delivered continuous process heat at levels needed for industrial use. It defined a cycle of…
Brisbane’s Graphene Manufacturing Group has secured Queensland government backing for a proposed Automated Battery Pilot Plant for the manufacture of GMG’s Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery. The company signed a Queensland Critical Minerals and Battery Technology Fund Agreement with the state for a grant of $2 million. GMG is using graphene to produce aluminium-ion batteries utilising…
Graphene Manufacturing Group announced this week that it has signed a Queensland Critical Minerals and Battery Technology Fund Agreement with the state government for a $2 million grant, supporting the company’s proposed battery pilot plant. Brisbane-based and Toronto-listed GMG is commercialising graphene aluminium ion batteries among other graphene-based products. GMG claims that their batteries, developed…
By Peter Roberts Queensland’s ARM Hub is supporting a local start-up to build a smart lithium battery for Australian homes, at the same time demonstrating its unusual-for-Australia innovation model. The batteries have a special casing that enables them to be repaired remotely, and the company, Vaulta, is scaling their pilot assembly plant at the ARM…
Underground mining contractor RUC Mining has launched a regenerative energy storage solution for mine shaft hoists or winders. Winders are heavy machines used to raise and lower minerals and materials in a mine shaft, with energy expended especially as the hoists raise materials and people to the surface. RUC Mining’s innovation is to capture and…
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…
The federal government has long promised that renewables will bring prices down, notwithstanding the recent period of global inflation – and today there is the first evidence that prices may doing just that. Today’s release of the draft Default Market Offer (DMO) shows the retail energy bill benchmark stabilising and trending downwards, according to Climate…
