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APRIL 18, 2021

RWE Supply & Trading and Australian hydrogen project developer The Hydrogen Utility Pty Ltd (H2U) have joined forces to develop hydrogen trading between Australia and Germany. Together, they aim to bring green hydrogen produced in Australia to Europe. RWE Supply & Trading and H2U are contributing to this with their expertise.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

expects to supply its renewable alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) ( earlier post ) to the Virgin Australia Group. The Virgin Australia Group will be responsible for coordinating the purchase, supply and blending of the ATJ into the fuel supply system at Brisbane Airport in Queensland, Australia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Front-Loading Net Zero report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050 if countries and states adopt 100% renewable systems faster than currently planned. Utilities should keep repeating steps 1 - 3 until their systems run on 80 – 90% renewables.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is providing $950,000 in funding for gas company BOC for a renewable hydrogen production and refueling project in Queensland. In addition to supplying BOC’s existing industrial customers, 50 kg per day of renewable hydrogen will be produced by BOC for the vehicle refueling station.

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JULY 23, 2021

BHP will supply Tesla Inc. with nickel from BHP’s Nickel West asset in Western Australia; BHP says that Nickel West is one of the most sustainable and lowest carbon emission nickel producers in the world. All nickel operations (open-cut and underground mines, concentrators, a smelter and refinery) are located in Western Australia.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Leading gas and engineering company BOC, a subsidiary of Linde plc, announced the commencement of a Queensland, Australia-first renewable hydrogen project at its production facility in Bulwer Island, Brisbane.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology will be installed at the following bp sites: Cherry Point refinery in Blaine, Washington; Rotterdam II refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Lingen refinery in Lower Saxony, Germany; Castellón de la Plana refinery in Castellón, Spain; and Kwinana Oil refinery in Kwinana, Australia.

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JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. At peak times, some US states and countries already have more renewable power than their grids can handle.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Australia and Germany have released national hydrogen strategies to help grow the development of renewable hydrogen as a clean source of energy. This study will help us jointly plot a pathway to address these challenges and seize the opportunity for a vibrant renewable hydrogen sector in and across these countries, and beyond.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

The extent to which renewables should dominate Australia’s energy grids is a major issue in science and politics. But limits to these technologies can undermine the case for a renewables-only electricity mix. The pollution issues are far fewer, however, in Australian hard-rock lithium.

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2024

The extent to which renewables should dominate Australia’s energy grids is a major issue in science and politics. But limits to these technologies can undermine the case for a renewables-only electricity mix. The pollution issues are far fewer, however, in Australian hard-rock lithium.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

An economically-sustainable hydrogen industry in Australia could soon be on the cards according to a blueprint released by CSIRO, the national science agency, which found that cost-competitiveness is firmly on the horizon. Source: CSIRO.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 9.2 MWh energy storage system to Zenith Energy, an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Australia. Zenith sells the electrical power it produces to some of the world’s largest mining companies with operations in Australia.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Australia-based battery materials company Liontown Resources Limited entered into a legally binding sales and purchase term sheet with electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla for the supply of spodumene concentrate. spodumene concentrate 6%) production capacity of ~500 ktpa. spodumene concentrate 6%) production capacity of ~500 ktpa.

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JULY 7, 2017

Through a competitive bidding process, Tesla was selected to provide a 100 MW/129 MWh Powerpack system to be paired with global renewable energy provider Neoen’s Hornsdale Wind Farm near Jamestown, South Australia. Tesla was awarded the entire energy storage system component of the project. million residents without electricity.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Why a hydrogen truck?

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JULY 12, 2022

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition. This will increasingly require the use of electricity from renewable sources.

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APRIL 10, 2019

Western Australia will host a national consortium to position Australia as a global leader in the manufacture and supply of batteries after a A$135-million (US$96.4-million) million) industry-backed research hub was supported by the Federal Government. billion benefit to the Australian economy over the next 15 years.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) awarded A$22.1 million (US$16 million) in funding to 16 research projects to propel innovation in exporting renewable hydrogen. It is the first time ARENA had sought to fund research into the hydrogen energy supply chain.

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JULY 12, 2023

The Americas, the Middle East and Australia are expected to emerge as major exporters with Europe and East Asia emerging as major demand centers, the analysis says. The rapid growth in ammonia driven by low-carbon supplies will change the current market beyond recognition.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Last Friday, Genex Power announced a supply agreement contract with Tesla for its Bouldercome Battery project (BPP) near Rockhampton in central Queensland, Australia. . Tesla will supply 40 Megapacks under the Genex supply agreement with a capacity of 50MW/100MWh for the Bouldercome battery energy storage system (BESS).

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2021

Tesla and BHP, a global mining company in Australia, signed a nickel supply agreement with each other recently. BHP will supply Tesla with nickel from its Nickel West asset in Western Australia. Talk of a possible nickel supply agreement between Tesla and the Australian mining company started last year in October.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Australia-based Ecoult has been awarded a Hydro Tasmania contract to supply the largest battery-based renewable energy storage system in Australia for the King Island Renewable Energy Integration Project (KIREIP). The 3 MW / 1.6 UltraBattery concept. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2024

Tesla has gained another Megapack contract in Australia, coming as the latest of the company’s commitments to build new energy storage sites and expand existing ones. The site is being operated by French renewables company Neoen, which signed a 10-year contract with AGL Energy, which is the country’s largest coal generator.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While speaking at the annual Minerals Week summit in Canberra, Australia, Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm highlighted the importance of building refineries and factories. The Tesla Chair highlighted that Australia has a lot of potential. It is our opportunity to lose if we fail to act quickly.

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JUNE 16, 2022

equity stake in and to become operator of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) , which has the potential to be one of the largest renewables and green hydrogen hubs in the world. bp will acquire a 40.5% At full capacity, AREH is expected to be capable of producing around 1.6

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Baua Electric

JUNE 17, 2024

Australia extracts 52% of the world’s lithium, the vast majority of it exported as an ore to China for eventual refining and use in batteries, notably in China’s world-dominant electric vehicle industry. Australia has only recently begun refining lithium rather than exporting the ore.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Australian energy infrastructure company Jemena and gas supply company Coregas are partnering to advance the use of green hydrogen for the transport industry in New South Wales. Under a new agreement, Jemena will produce and supply green hydrogen from its Western Sydney plant for use by transport and industrial customers from early 2022.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Neoen’s Victoria Big Battery (VBB), powered by Tesla’s Megapacks, has gone live and is ready for the summer in Australia. The Victoria Big Battery can supply 450 MWh of power to prevent blackouts, specifically during heatwaves when the market is particularly reliant on solar and wind energy. .

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JANUARY 23, 2021

Australia-based Global Energy Ventures (GEV) and Pacific Hydro Australia Developments Pty Ltd (Pacific Hydro) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore opportunities regarding the production, storage, loading, ground and marine transportation of green hydrogen produced by Pacific Hydro’s Ord Hydrogen Project.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Australia-based Hysata, which is commercializing capillary-fed electrolysis technology developed at the University of Wollongong ( earlier post ) has closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round of $42.5 2022) “A high-performance capillary-fed electrolysis cell promises more cost-competitive renewable hydrogen.” Hoang, A.L.,

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MAY 4, 2020

As an early priority, CEFC will seek investment in projects included in the ARENA Renewable Hydrogen Deployment Funding Round. Hydrogen is currently used mainly for ammonia production in Australia, accounting for approximately 70% of total hydrogen use nationally. The CEFC Advancing Hydrogen Fund will draw on existing CEFC finance.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.

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MARCH 21, 2022

In an open access paper published in Nature Communications , researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia report that their capillary-fed electrolysis cell demonstrates water electrolysis performance exceeding commercial electrolysis cells, with a cell voltage at 0.5 2 and 85 °C of only 1.51 kWh/kg hydrogen (vs. Hoang, A.L.,

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Piedmont Lithium ( earlier post ) has amended its earlier agreement with Tesla to supply the US automaker with spodumene concentrate (SC6) from North American Lithium (NAL). North American Lithium is a brownfield open pit mining and spodumene concentrator operation in Québec owned 75% by Australia-based Sayona Mining and 25% by Piedmont.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Decarbonizing hydrogen supply is critical to initiate uptake in these new sectors, and an industry-standard emissions measurement and verification process is key to providing the market transparency that facilitates new supply agreements.

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