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A week of upstream and downstream activity for Australia’s nascent vanadium flow battery sector

June 23, 2023
Premier of Queensland visited electrolyte factory, and the company building it has ordered a vanadium flow battery from Sumitomo Electric.
Vanadium ore. Image: Australian Vanadium.

Startup Elcora wants vanadium pentoxide plant near mine in Morocco to feed flow batteries

April 6, 2023
Elcora is developing a vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco to complement raw materials extraction.
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Solving the battery supply chain’s structural deficit with modular, standardised approaches

April 3, 2023
A fundamental rethink of the supply chain is required, writes Greg Pitt, VP of battery materials at Worley.
Rendering of the Waranga electrolyte processing plant. Image: Australian Vanadium.

Australian Vanadium secures site for flow battery electrolyte plant in Western Australia

March 16, 2023
Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.
Queensland's premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (shaking hands on right) meeting young apprentices at a site in Townsville earlier this week. Image: Annastacia Palaszczuk's office via Twitter.

Queensland transmission line upgrade to enable battery and renewables manufacturing ambitions

March 7, 2023
The Premier of Queensland announced a major transmission line project to unlock 6GW of renewable energy, enabling the Australian state to create a homegrown clean energy value chain.
Drilling for vanadium at a site in Western Australia, 2019. Image: Australian Vanadium

Australia opens public consultation on National Battery Strategy

February 7, 2023
Australia wants to leverage its position as a mining and minerals hub to capture opportunities in the battery industry.
A 1990s demonstration of vanadium flow technology, used on a golf cart at the University of New South Wales. Inventor Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos and engineer Dun Rui Hong from the team are on the left. Image: Courtesy of Maria Skyllas-Kazacos.

Australia’s first critical minerals plant to process vanadium, cobalt, silicon for clean energy

January 26, 2023
A demonstration facility to prove out Australia’s capabilities in critical minerals processing will be built in North Queensland.
A Burns & McDonnell BESS project site in Texas. Image: Burns & McDonnell.

Year in review 2022: Energy storage EPC Burns & McDonnell

January 3, 2023
Burns & McDonnell takes part in our series of Q&A blogs looking back at 2022, and looking ahead to this year in energy storage.
1.6MW solar PV array at a Rio Tinto mine in Queensland, Australia. Image: Rio Tinto.

Rio Tinto to deploy US$400 million solar, battery storage at iron ore operations in Australia  

November 30, 2022
Rio Tinto has announced the latest steps in its plan to deploy 1GW of renewable energy for its operations in Pilbara, Australia.
Queensland energy minister Mick de Brenni attended the launch of the Advanced Materials and Battery Council today at the state's parliament. Image: Thom Northcott, AMBC non-exec director via LinkedIn.

Batteries included: Australia to launch National Critical Minerals Strategy

October 25, 2022
Australia is developing a National Critical Minerals Strategy, including materials for batteries and other clean energy technologies.

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