Farmers Avoid Blackouts and Power Bills with Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
A farm property in Western Australia has not had to pay for any of the energy it’s used for over two and a half years after installing a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) supplied by Perth renewable energy company VSUN Energy. Lucy Stuart helped pioneer VRFB energy storage in Australia when two years ago…
Redflow expands into China
Australian energy storage technology company Redflow Limited has signed a collaboration agreement with Chinese zinc-bromine flow battery company ZbestPower Co., Ltd, to supply a large scale, 100 kilowatt-hour (kWh) energy storage solution for a demonstration project for a key smart grid initiative in China. The Redflow deployment will be part of…
MAGELLAN POWER SMARTS PART OF LARGE UTILITY PROJECT
Energy company Magellan Power is pleased to be part of a new $8.8 million power system rollout as announced yesterday by Energy Minister Bill Johnston. 57 sites across WA’s South West are now set to receive Stand-alone Power Systems (SPS), the majority of which will carry Magellan Power designed and…
Redflow batteries supply energy for remote Thai village
Zinc-bromine flow batteries from Australian energy storage company Redflow Limited are now storing solar energy to provide a reliable power supply for a remote village in mountainous northern Thailand that has long lacked electricity. In a project backed by the Thai Government, the village of Ban Pha Dan in Lamphun…
Hydrostor Announces Australia’s First Compressed Air Energy Storage Project, Secures Funding from ARENA and South Australia Renewable Technology Fund
ADELAIDE, February 8, 2019 – Hydrostor Inc., a leader in Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES), is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Hydrostor Australia Pty Ltd, has been awarded a combined total of $9 million of grant funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Government of…
ENERGY VAULT ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY OF TRANSFORMATIVE UTILITY-SCALE ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY YIELDING UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC BENEFITS TO GLOBAL ENERGY PROVIDERS
The Tata Power Company to deploy an initial 35 MWh Energy Vault system planned for 2019; CEMEX partnership will support rapid adoption and deployment of Energy Vault’s unique storage solution Renewables have struggled to more fully replace fossil fuel power due to production unpredictability and intermittency from reliance on factors…
Eguana Technologies approved for South Australia Home Battery Scheme
CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Eguana Technologies (TSX.V: EGT) (OTCQB: EGTYF) is pleased to announce it has been approved for both the South Australia Home Battery Scheme and CEFC home battery financing providing direct access to $100 million in subsidies and low interest loans for residential battery storage….
The Emerging Hydrogen Economy
Australia is one of the luckiest countries in the world in terms of natural resources. Here is the US Central Intelligence Agency comment on Australia’s natural resources: Natural Resources: bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rare earth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum…
World-leading energy storage pilot breaks ground at Glenelg
The first commercial pilot of a molten silicon energy storage system developed by South Australian innovator, 1414 Degrees (ASX:14D), is one step closer to commissioning, with large components of the technology making their way to SA Water’s Glenelg Wastewater Treatment Plant this week. 1414 Degrees’ biogas Thermal Energy Storage System (GAS-TESS)…
Unlocking Australia’s potential in lithium-ion battery manufacturing
A report outlining a new strategy to help to maximise Australia’s potential as a world powerhouse in lithium-ion battery manufacturing was launched in a joint media release on 11 December from Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment and Senator the Hon Matthew Canavan, Minister for Resources…