Australian Vanadium Limited,which has a plant in Perth’s northern suburbs,wants to ride the next big energy storage wave after lithium.
A submersible buoy to harvest wave energy,superheated graphite alloy blocks,vanadium flow batteries,and compressed air generators are trying to solve the problem of storing renewable energy in the grid.
Chinese automaker BYD is poised to surpass Tesla as the new worldwide leader in fully electric vehicle sales.
When is a summit not a summit? When everything has been decided beforehand. Welcome to WA’s pitch to be treated differently from the rest of the country to save the rest of the world.
Australia has huge deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals,but exploiting them means competing with China.
Australia is joining the United States to tackle China’s dominance in key green commodities. But the government faces tough choices to help local industry.
After the US announced tighter restrictions on exports of advanced semiconductors to China last week,China has responded by introducing export controls on graphite,a critical material used in the batteries of electric vehicles.
Mike Henry said urbanisation,industrialisation and population growth were driving demand for the key minerals. They are also at the heart of US-China competition.
Robyn Denholm,chair of Tesla’s board,says the Albanese government can create a local battery-making industry with modest tax breaks for investors.
Mineral Resources wants to build a $1.5 billion facility to process and export liquid natural gas from its promising Perth Basin fields in West Australia.
The ASX-listed lithium player has significantly upgraded estimates for its West Australian deposits.