New recycling deal revs up electric vehicle battery circular economy
Australian battery recycling company Envirostream, a subsidiary of Perth-headquartered advanced raw materials company Lithium Australia, has signed an exclusive recycling agreement with repurposed electric vehicle battery manufacturer Infinitev.
4.99 MW Narromine solar farm ownership passes to Ampyr Distributed Energy
Australian renewable energy and battery storage development company MPower Group has sold its 4.99 MW Narromine renewable energy project in New South Wales to Singapore-based Ampyr Distributed Energy via conversion of project funding into equity in the project.
Grid-scale battery manufacturer gets $3 million boost for electrolyte production
Grid-scale battery manufacturer Energy Storage Industries Asia Pacific has received a $3 million Queensland government investment to increase its production of iron flow battery electrolytes by 40 million litres per year.
Queensland solar panel recycling solution aims to scale-up nationwide
Brisbane-headquartered Pan Pacific Recycling has begun materials recovery from end-of-life solar panels as part of a Smart Energy Council stewardship pilot, which aims to fast track a repurposing solution for the rest of Australia’s mounting solar waste problem.
Stanwell adds 650 MW combined capacity to growing energy storage portfolio
Queensland state-owned generation company Stanwell has boosted its energy storage portfolio with two new developments with a combined capacity of almost 650 MW entering its project pipeline.
Allied Green taps AFRY to engineer solar and battery storage plant
Allied Green Ammonia has awarded Swedish outfit Afry the owner’s engineering assignment for the renewable power plant that is to support its large-scale green hydrogen to ammonia production project being developed in the Northern Territory.
Contracts awarded for concentrated solar-powered green methanol plant
Australian concentrated solar thermal energy specialist Vast Renewables has announced key contracts for its proposed Solar Methanol 1 green fuels project being developed in South Australia.
Sydney tech company signs digital twin modelling deal with USA utility
Sydney-headquartered climate-tech platform Neara has signed a deal with United States energy provider CenterPoint Energy, to use artificial intelligence and machine learning modelling capabilities, to improve the utilty’s extreme weather infrastructure resilience.
Australian-backed Philippines lithium battery factory targets 2 GWh capacity
An Australian-funded lithium iron phosphate battery manufacturing plant in the gigafactory has hit go on the Philippine’s first purpose-built battery production line, which is expected to generate an output of 2 GWh of capacity by 2030.
USA module manufacturer SEG Solar turns sod on 5 GW Indonesian plant
United States-headquartered solar module manufacturer SEG Solar has started building 10 N-type cell production lines in Indonesia’s Kawasan Industri Terpadu Batang industrial park, 390 kilometres east of Jakarta.
