Gravitational energy storage developer Green Gravity has secured $9 Million in funding with strong backing from existing and new major strategic and financial investors. The company, which is repurposing legacy mineshafts for utility scale long-duration energy storage, secured financing from investors including HMC Capital, BlueScopeX, Pacific Channel and Sumisho Coal Australia Holdings (SCAP H, a…
This week inventor and electrochemist Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos and her team at University of NSW Sydney are hosting an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the vanadium redox flow battery (VFB.) Running on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Tyree Energy Technologies Building, the 40th Anniversary Flow Battery Innovation Symposium will look at opportunities…
The Victorian government has given BrightNight approval to begin development of the $700 million Mortlake Energy Hub, a hybrid solar and battery energy storage project. Victorian energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio said on Thursday that the fast-tracked project is expected to create approximately 300 construction jobs. According to its website, the energy hub is planned as…
By Peter Roberts Zinc bromine flow battery manufacturer Redflow has gone into voluntary administration after failing to secure new funds from investors. The company, which manufactures its Australian developed batteries in Thailand, has appointed Richard Hughes and David Orr from Deloitte as administrators. Redflow was one of the first to launch a commercial zinc flow…
By Bruce Mountain, Victoria University Imagine if Australian cities became major producers of clean energy, rather than relying on far-flung solar and wind farms. Far fetched? Hardly. Our cities and towns are full of warehouses, commercial areas, shopping centres and factories. These types of buildings have one very important underutilised resource – large expanses of…
By Peter Newman, Curtin University The extent to which renewables should dominate Australia’s energy grids is a major issue in science and politics. Solar and wind are clearly now the cheapest form of electricity. But limits to these technologies can undermine the case for a renewables-only electricity mix. The challenges posed by solar and wind…
A $20 million Gold Coast factory producing both community lithium batteries and EV chargers will be operational next month, according to the company behind it. In a statement on Tuesday, eLumina said the site was nearing completion and is set to produce 300 batteries annually, and that onshore EV technology manufacture would be essential to…
SCEE Electrical has been awarded a $50 million contract to help link the Collie big battery energy storage system to the power grid. Western Australian energy provider Synergy awarded the switchyard works to SCEE, to which it had awarded a $160 million contract in May, covering civil, electrical, and major equipment installation works at the…
By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Opposition leader Peter Dutton might have been hoping for an endorsement from economists for his plan to take Australian nuclear. He shouldn’t expect one from The Economist. The Economist is a British weekly news magazine that has reported on economic thinking and served as…
The federal government will roll out of more than 420 community batteries across the country in a move it says is lowering household power bills and boosting reliability in the electricity grid. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will support up to 370 community batteries as part of Round 1 of its Community Batteries Fund, an…
