Technology

Three Australia-based alumni of climate tech startup accelerator EnergyLab raised a collective $124 million in 2023 for their renewables and energy transition concepts.

The private owner and operator of South Australiaʼs electricity transmission network has laid out its plans to manage the challenges and opportunities of the state’s energy transition, including investing in major transmission projects to serve an expected increase in demand.

A coalition of community groups have branded the estimated $4.9 billion HumeLink transmission project defective and the New South Wales government reckless to ignore safety and environmental concerns.

Victorian distribution network service providers CitiPower and Powercor have partnered with United Kingdom-based software provider Piclo which is to deliver a cloud-based digital marketplace platform designed to improve grid flexibility.

A team of Australian researchers has designed a new catalyst that has the potential to deliver a new generation of lithium-sulfur batteries that are capable of being charged in less than five minutes, instead of several hours as is currently the case.

Researchers in Italy have estimated the profitability of future vanadium redox flow batteries based on real device and market parameters and found that market evolutions are heading to much more competitive systems, with capital costs down to $430/kWh at a storage duration of 10 hours.

The new efficiency record for fully roll-to-roll printed perovskite solar cells set by an international team of scientists from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO unlocks new manufacturing potential. These lightweight and flexible solar cells manufactured on very long, continuous rolls of plastic can dramatically increase the rate of production and scope for deployment.

A unit of French construction group Vinci has developed a new tool to ensure efficient earthworks for ground-mounted PV systems, with a focus on optimization parameters, design restrictions, allowable slopes for mounting structures, and terrain adaptation.

A Queensland tech start-up says it has developed an AI-based all-in-one solar farm operation and maintenance system that promises to boost the reliability of solar projects and could save the renewable energy industry $200 million a year.

Australian electric vehicles could earn up to $12,000 in a single year using vehicle-to-grid technology to provide frequency regulation services to the National Electricity Market according to a report published by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.