Tag: Battery

Deakin Trailblazer hands 20% of funds to Recharge Industries

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Deakin University has awarded one-fifth of its $50 million University Trailblazer grant, received from the federal government last month, to Geelong-based Recharge Industries, a portfolio company of Scale Facilitation....

Chinese JV first to produce Australian battery lithium

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A Chinese-Australian joint venture in Western Australia has become the first company to begin production of battery grade lithium hydroxide in Australia. Joint-venture Tianqi Lithium Energy Australia said late...

$34m NT lithium mine gets environmental approval

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A near-$34 million lithium mine south of Darwin has received environmental go-ahead from the Northern Territory government. BP33 is the second mine along the Cox Peninsula to receive environmental...

Govt funds $19 million Daintree renewable energy microgrid

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A near-$19 million renewable energy microgrid will be operational in the Daintree region by 2024, with the federal governemnt to fund the program. Renewable energy firm Volt Advisory Group...

Forrest buys $3b renewables farm, FFI hydrogen hub gets underway

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
As the ground broke on the world’s largest electrolyser production facility, Fortescue Future Industries chairman Andrew Forrest announced Tattarang’s $3 billion acquisition of the largest renewables farm in the...

WA lithium refinery to bring back battery value chain

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Wesfarmers has secured ground for a new lithium refinery in southern Perth as part of its joint venture to control the full value chain of lithium hydroxide, a chemical...