By Christoph Nedopil, Griffith University Australia has flourished as an export powerhouse for decades. Much of this prosperity has been driven by the nation’s natural endowment with two important raw products for producing steel the traditional way: iron ore and metallurgical coal. Worth more than A$100 billion in 2024, Australia’s iron ore shipments to China…
Clean technology companies MGA Thermal and Knode have cracked the code for Australia’s largest industrial-scale thermal energy storage project, promising to transform how heavy industry heats up, according to an announcement on Monday. The massive 180 megawatt-hour “thermal battery” will pump out 20 tonnes per hour of clean, high-temperature steam to Western Australian industrial sites.…
Calix has executed a $44.9 million grant agreement with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to build a green iron demonstration plant using its Zero Emissions Steel Technology, according to an announcement on Thursday. The demonstration plant will have a targeted capacity to produce 30,000 tonnes per annum of hydrogen direct reduced iron or hot briquetted…
A green hydrogen and ammonia project in regional New South Wales has reached financial close, with construction set to begin in October, according to an announcement on Wednesday. The Good Earth Green Hydrogen and Ammonia project is a joint venture between Hiringa Energy, Sundown Pastoral Company and the NSW Government. The facility will be located…
Altech Batteries has provided an update on funding for its CERENERGY sodium-chloride solid-state battery project in Saxony, Germany, according to a statement on Wednesday. The company said a large European bank was in the process of being mandated to provide debt funding, with the bank’s technical due diligence team conducting a final site visit. The…
Alter Steel has finalised its contract with Italian engineering firm Danieli to supply the technology and equipment for its $750 million steel mill in Pinkenba, Queensland, with the down payment now made to secure delivery. When complete, the facility will produce 500,000 tonnes of reinforcing steel products annually to meet Queensland’s growing construction demand using…
The NSW government has approved a bioenergy facility at Austral Bricks site at Horsley Park, west of Sydney’s CBD. According to a statement from the government on Friday, the project will involve an anaerobic digester and process up to 150,000 tonnes of organic waste annually, helping provide electricity and heat for the brickworks. The organic…
By Alison Reeve, Grattan Institute As the world looks for ways to tackle climate change, Australia has invested heavily in green hydrogen. Green hydrogen is shaping as the best option to strip carbon emissions from some industrial processes, such as iron-making and ammonia production. But making the dream a reality in Australia is proving difficult.…
ClearVue Technologies announced on Thursday that it will contribute technology and expertise to a major greenhouse research project led by RMIT University as part of the ARC Research Hub for Intelligent Energy Efficiency in Future Protected Cropping. The research program exceeding $20 million includes a $5 million grant from the Australian Research Council, with total…
Solar farms across Australia are about to get a robotic makeover, with artificial intelligence-powered machines set to revolutionise how panels are installed across the country’s renewable energy landscape. Robotics pioneer Luminous has scored $4.9 million in funding as the first recipient of ARENA’s $100 million Solar ScaleUp Challenge, designed to crowdsource ideas from around the…