Energy

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has confirmed $1.9 billion in new investment commitments in the 2022-23 fiscal year, including a record $1.2 billion in renewable energy and grid-related funding commitments by Australia’s ‘green bank’, delivered despite adverse market conditions.

Nyrstar Australia, a global producer of critical minerals and metals, has released its submission to the Australian Federal Government's Critical Minerals List issues paper, which includes a series of recommendations aimed at better aligning Australia's strategic approach to critical minerals with its international partners.

Australia's national science agency CSIRO and GHD Advisory have released a new report that urges the country to prioritise hydrogen-powered transportation alongside electric vehicles or risk falling behind its global counterparts.

A researcher from the University of Southern Queensland has secured $1 million in funding through the 2023 Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships scheme to develop a new generation of high-performance thermoelectric energy harvesting technology.

Aluminium giant Alcoa of Australia announced a new agreement with AGL Energy Limited (AGL) to deliver 300 megawatts of power supply to Portland Aluminium Smelter in Victoria in a push to support its future operations.

Southern Gold Limited announced that its battery technology firm IonDrive Technologies (IDT) has been named the primary partner organisation in a newly awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) battery recycling centre in Adelaide, South Australia.

Hysata, a Wollongong-based electrolyser company, has opened its new 8,000 sqm global headquarters and electrolyser manufacturing plant in Port Kembla. 

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced a $20.9 million grant to Wollongong-based startup Hysata to commercialise its next-generation hydrogen electrolyser technology at the startup’s new manufacturing facility in Port Kembla. 

Australian Vanadium Limited has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for engineering group Primero Group to undertake the construction of the firm’s vanadium electrolyte facility in Western Australia.

Transgrid, the operator of the high-voltage electricity transmission network in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, has signed a $100 million contract with ZTT Australia for the delivery of over 17,500 km of high-voltage conductors.