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Australian concentrated solar company Vast Renewables has signed a development services agreement with Singapore-headquartered energy company GGS Energy to bring concentrated solar powered green methanol and sustainable aviation fuel to the USA.

The International Energy Agency’s latest report, which maps out the future evolution of clean energy manufacturing, says the combined global market for PV, wind turbines, electric cars, batteries, electrolysers, and heat pumps will rise from $1 trillion in 2023 to more than $3 trillion by 2035.

United States-based Bluetti has developed a new energy storage system that offers up to 154.8 kWh of storage and 60 kW of output by connecting up to three systems in parallel. It includes an inverter and a voltage controller with up to seven batteries.

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.

Researchers at the CSIRO have taken their pilot-scale prodcution of flexible printed solar film to a new level, following the official launch of its Printed Photovoltaic Facility in southwest Melbourne, Victoria.

Rooftop solar has outshone other renewables in Q3 2024, contributing 38.5% of generation ahead of grid-scale solar, 18.3% and wind,13.4%, while new capacity progressing through the connection phase grew 36% and battery projects, by 87%, compared to Q3 2023.

The federal government will tip more than $17 million into what it said will be Australia’s first commercial concentrated solar thermal heat plant, expanding the application of solar power beyond electricity to heat generation.

French renewable energy and storage developer Neoen has confirmed that the 219 MW / 877 MWh first stage of what will be one of Australia’s largest battery energy storage systems has commenced operations in Western Australia’s coal heartlands.

Although local defects in chloride-iodide-based perovskite are hard to avoid due to ion migration, a group of scientists from the University of New South Wales has found a way to passivate them. They used different combinations of 4-chlorobenzylammonium chloride and 4-chlorobenzylammonium bromide on top of the hole transport layer and reached up to 15% improvement in efficiency.

Elumina has officially opened a manufacturing and development centre in Queensland’s southeast that it says will be the first in Australia capable of producing both community-scale lithium batteries and electric vehicle chargers.