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Wandoan South, a Vena Energy BESS project in Queensland, Australia. Image: Vena Energy.

Queensland hails public ownership as key to energy transition, launches EOI for 250MW battery storage project

March 13, 2023
The government of Queensland has said keeping energy sector in public ownership will be key to an orderly transition away from fossil fuels.
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.
Porous sulfur-containing interlayer of a lithium-sulfur cell at Argonne National Laboratory after 500 charge-discharge cycles. Shown is the microstructure and elemental mapping of silicon, oxygen and sulfur. Image: Guiliang Xu/Argonne National Laboratory.

US can capture 60% of value of rising domestic lithium-ion demand by 2030, DOE-led study says

February 16, 2023
Recommendations for how the US can double its lithium battery revenues have been published by Department of Energy’s Li-Bridge partnership.
Part of the inland Salton Sea in California's prospective 'Lithium Valley'. Image: Imperial County Board.

California’s ‘Lithium Valley’ will incentivise battery value chain investments

February 10, 2023
Imperial County has approved schemes to incentivise investment into lithium value chain, leveraging the region’s abundant brine resources.
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.
MiRIS in Belgium, a pilot project that uses three different battery technologies for stationary storage: two different types of flow battery and lithium-ion battery storage. Image: Anthony Price / IFBF.

Industry group hails inclusion of flow batteries in EU’s ‘Battery Passport’

January 26, 2023
The European Union has resolved a glaring omission in the design of its forthcoming Battery Passport, according to Flow Batteries Europe.
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.
Maroš Šefčovič, speaking at the EASE Energy Storage Global Conference in Brussels, Belgium. Image: Maroš Šefčovič via LinkedIn

European Commission vice president: ‘Energy Storage has key role in solving Europe’s energy crisis’

October 12, 2022
Energy storage must play central role in Europe’s energy security, enabling integration of renewable energy and lowering power prices.
Tesla Model 3 at the car's launch event. EV, ESS and consumer electronics battery recycling presents a huge opportunity as well as a challenge that the world needs to solve. Image: Wikimedia user Steve Jurvetson.

Redwood Materials already gets 6GWh of lithium batteries per year for recycling

April 8, 2022
Redwood Materials CEO JB Straubel told a US Senate hearing his company already receives approximately 6GWh of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries for recycling annually. 
Domestic and international battery manufacturers have been supported by the European Commission's European Battery Alliance to date, but the latest announcements aim to provide a framework to boost industrial competitiveness and accelerate the EU's energy transition. Pictured is a lithium battery cell produced in Sweden by Northvolt, a European startup supported by the Alliance. Image: Northvolt.

European action plan to accelerate growth of battery value chain

April 6, 2022
EU-supported European Battery Alliance (EBA) will roll out a newly updated action plan to enable 90% of the Union’s demand for batteries to be met with domestically made products by 2030.

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