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Eku Energy reaches financial close on 500 MWh ACT battery

Battery storage platform Eku Energy has achieved another milestone in the development of its global energy storage portfolio, reaching financial close on the 250 MW / 500 MWh Williamsdale battery project to be built in the Australian Capital Territory.

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Queensland eyes smaller options after pulling plug on 120 GWh pumped hydro project

The new Queensland government says it is investigating opportunities to build multiple smaller, more manageable pumped hydro projects after formally scrapping the 5 GW / 120 GWh Pioneer-Burdekin pumped hydro project slated for the state’s central coast.

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NSW transport service trains its sights on multiple 30 MW grid-scale batteries

State government services and road agency Transport for NSW is investigating the deployment of multiple 30 MW grid-scale battery energy storage systems to help decarbonise its Sydney heavy rail network.

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Mount Isa copper mines earmarked for gravitational energy storage system

New South Wales-based gravitational energy storage technology company Green Gravity will repurpose shafts in two Queensland copper mines scheduled to close in 2025, to store renewable energy.

Australian researchers develop tech to recover lithium from saltwater

Researchers from Monash and the University of Queensland have developed a nanofiltration technology to extract lithium from low-grade saltwater brines with high magnesium content. “Our technology achieves 90 percent lithium recovery, nearly double the performance of traditional methods, while dramatically reducing the time required for extraction from years to mere weeks,” researcher Dr Zhikao Li said.

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Australia’s flat solar market sees it dropped from global top 10

While Australia continues to be a revelatory solar market internationally, it lost its place in the top 10 solar installers globally in 2023, the IEA PVPS team reports. According to Renate Egan, Executive Director for the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, it is the first time in 30 years Australia has dropped off that list. “What’s sad is that the rest of the world is now taking off and investing in solar and we’re falling behind,” she said at Melbourne’s All Energy on Thursday.

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Australian company using nanomaterials for efficient, cheap hydrogen storage attracts federal funding

Australian company Rux Energy is commercialising technology that uses highly porous nanomaterials to coat tanks for hydrogen storage, claiming significant improvements to the cost, safety and efficiency of what remains a major industry barrier. It has secured funding in the Australian government’s latest round of research grants, and recently opened an office in Essex off the back of industry trials now underway in the UK.

Storage and solar ‘as-a-service’ venture hits Australia’s C&I segment

Founder and former CEO of SwitchDin Dr Andrew Mears is launching his new venture, Tesseract ESS, at Melbourne’s All Energy today. The proposition expands on his previous technologies to deliver a ‘storage-as-a-service’ model focused on Australia’s C&I segment, providing battery and solar systems at $0 CAPEX to Australian farmers, manufacturers and other businesses. Pv magazine Australia spoke to Mears ahead of the launch.

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X-Elio to add 148 MW battery to Queensland solar farm

Renewables developer X-Elio, owned by Brookfield Renewable, has today announced it will add a 148 MW battery system to its operational Blue Grass solar farm in Queensland, marking its first hybrid solar + storage venture in Australia.

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1 GWh battery announced for Stoney Creek NSW by Enervest and Energy Vault

Energy Vault, a Swiss company which initially entered international markets with gravity-based storage technologies before expanding into lithium batteries, has signed a $350 million (USD 234 million) agreement with Australian developer Enervest to deliver a 1 GWh lithium battery for a site in Stoney Creek, NSW.

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