Energy

ASX-listed Australian Vanadium Limited (AVL) has executed a $49 million collaboration grant agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia to support the Australian Vanadium Project – one of the most advanced critical mineral vanadium projects being developed globally.

Singaporean infrastructure giant Keppel has partnered with Incitec Pivot to explore the feasibility of building a green ammonia production facility in Gladstone, Queensland. 

CSIRO is leading an Australian-first project to develop an easily deployable device to produce hydrogen directly at the point of consumption in a push to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced $20 million in financing to Stanwell Corporation Limited (Stanwell) on behalf of the Australian Government to assist a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for a large-scale renewable hydrogen project in Gladstone, Queensland.

Australian bus manufacturing company Volgren announced that the first of two Volvo BZL vehicles with Optimus bodies that are being produced nearby at Eagle Farm serves as the 50th Battery Electric Bus (BEB) for the bus body maker. 

Australian construction company CIMIC Group’s subsidiary, UGL, has been selected by Hong Kong-based electricity and gas company Alinta Energy to install a 35-megawatt one-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) facility in Port Hedland, Western Australia.

The Victorian government has rolled out a series of efforts focused on preparing the future workforce for jobs needed in the state’s decarbonisation journey and delivering cheap renewable energy to Victorians. 

Contact Energy Limited, a New Zealand-based electricity generator, has signed a 10-year renewable attribute purchase agreement to support the development of new renewable energy capacity in Aotearoa New Zealand, in line with Microsoft’s sustainability commitments. 

H2X Global, a Sydney-based hydrogen fuel cell vehicle manufacturer, has won its second contract with Swedish municipal garbage business Renova worth up to 240 million SEK (AUD 34.3 million) to supply commercial vehicles for the city of Gothenburg.

Monash University chemical engineers have developed an industrial process for producing acetic acid that utilises surplus carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and has the potential to produce negative carbon emissions.