BluGlass appoints new full-time CFO ASX-listed semiconductor company BluGlass has announced the appointment of Samuel Samhan (pictured) as Chief Financial Officer on a full-time basis, effective immediately. BluGlass said in a statement on Monday that Samhan is a highly credentialled senior executive with over 20 years of financial leadership and commercial operations experience, including as…
Renewable power generation’s share of the National Energy Market is showing a sudden and rapid rise in importance with renewables now playing a bigger role in Australia’s energy mix than ever before. The federal government’s March 2023 Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory showed that renewables accounted for 39 per cent of generation…
A big electric passenger and vehicle ferry needs a big battery – and electric vessels don’t come much bigger than leading Tasmanian ferry builder Incat’s ferry being built for South American customer, Buquebus. The 130 metre long catamaran ‘utility Ro-Pax’ design (pictured) announced in January will be capable of carrying up to 2,100 passengers and…
Energy storage company 1414 Degrees has commissioned its SiBox Demonstration Module (SDM), marking a key funding milestone in the SiBox Development Agreement with Woodside Energy Technologies. The commissioning phase involved extensive trials, demonstrating the SiBox molten silicon energy storage system’s ability to convert electric energy into a controlled very hot air stream suitable for industrial…
Energy Storage Industries’ iron-flow battery technology is one of the winners in a $24 million investment into flow batteries from local developers announced by the Queensland state government. A government-funded pilot project will deliver new locally developed iron and zinc flow batteries – a $12 million iron flow battery from ESI with a preferred site…
State-owned Horizon Power has announced the purchase of a vanadium redox flow battery, which the Western Australian government says is a first for an Australian energy utility. According to a statement from the state government on Monday, Horizon has signed an agreement for purchase, installation, and commissioning of the vanadium battery for a long-duration energy…
XTEK’s HighCom awarded new armour order XTEK has announced that its HighCom Armor Solutions division has received an international purchase order to supply ballistic body armour to an undisclosed European customer, worth $2.6 million. Scott Basham, XTEK Group’s CEO, said on Monday that the armour business — across manufacturing in Columbus, Ohio, XTclave technology development…
Gravity energy storage system developer Green Gravity the construction phase at Green Gravity’s Gravity Lab energy storage demonstration system (Pictured). Gravity Lab is a research and development facility designed to test the use of gravity to store and release energy. The facility was constructed in partnership with BlueScope Steel utilising disused mineshafts to obtain high…
Battery materials producer Talga Group has announced that environmental permits allowing the company to construct a battery anode plant at Lulea in Sweden are now in force. No appeals were submitted against the permit being issued, and with a Certificate of Finalitity now issued by the Swedish Land and Environment Court, this completes the statutory…
Critical minerals developer Avenira has won an extension from the Northern Territory government until June, 2024 on their agreement to develop a lithium ferro phosphate (LFP) Cathode Active Material (LFP) plant in Darwin. Under a tri-partite agreement with the government and Taiwanese LFP battery manufacturer manufacturer Aleees, Avenira is proposing a facility to manufacture pre…
