Samantha McGahan of Australian Vanadium on the electrolyte, which is the single most important material for making vanadium flow batteries.

Elcora is developing a vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco to complement raw materials extraction.

Imperial County has approved schemes to incentivise investment into lithium value chain, leveraging the region’s abundant brine resources.

A demonstration facility to prove out Australia’s capabilities in critical minerals processing will be built in North Queensland.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced financial support for four technology sector manufacturing projects, including a vanadium processing plant.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) supplies most of the world’s cobalt, but exporting semi-finished or finished products rather than raw materials would better help the country capture the value of the metal used in high power lithium-ion batteries.

The government of Queensland will commit “at least AU$10 million (US$7.21 million)” to building a multi-user vanadium processing plant to capitalise on natural resources in the Australian state.

Three recent interesting steps forward on lithium battery sustainability, a growing concern and area of interest for the clean energy sector. 

China has once again been ranked top for involvement in the global lithium-ion battery supply chain by BloombergNEF, but for the first time the US has come in second amid a policy rush to support the domestic industry.