- The GreenTech Hub aims to build capability and
capacity in green technologies and services across WA
- Its first innovation challenge 'The Long Game
Energy Storage' has now named 12 finalists
- Each finalist to pitch their energy solutions at
'The Long Game Live' event at West Tech Fest
- Cook Government supporting innovative solutions
to decarbonising the economy
Western Australia's
GreenTech Hub has hit another major milestone with its announcement of the
finalists for its first challenge.
The Hub connects
industry, innovators, research and government to develop practical, scalable
solutions that are tailored to WA's unique industry, infrastructure and
community needs.
$4 million has been allocated to the initiative over four years, aiming
to build State-wide capability and capacity in green technologies and services.
The first challenge 'Long
Game Energy Storage' received 31 local and international submissions that
propose solutions to advance Western Australia's energy storage needs,
including an overall goal of reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
One in three submissions
came from Western Australian based innovators.
During West Tech Fest,
each finalist has been invited to take part in 'The Long Game Live' where they
will pitch their long duration energy storage solutions to industry experts
against defined WA use cases. Challenge Champions are set to be named early next
year.
Hosted by Curtin
University, The GreenTech Hub is part of the $40 million Lower Carbon Grants
Program (LCG) - Gorgon Fund with a joint funding agreement between the WA
Government and Chevron-operated Gorgon Joint Venture. For more information see:
www.greentechwa.com
Comments attributed to Science and Innovation Minister Stephen Dawson:
"Congratulations to all
our finalists for the first challenge of the GreenTech Hub, it was fantastic to
see the interest from high-calibre innovations from all over the world.
"The Challenge connects
innovators with industry, unlocks commercial pathways, and advances
technologies that can support WA's jobs, energy security, and decarbonisation
goals.
"Thanks to West Tech
Fest, each finalist has the chance to showcase their innovation and make their
pitches to industry, investors and Challenge Partners.
"Through supporting
innovative programs like the GreenTech Hub, the Cook Government is delivering
jobs for the future through attracting investment and ideas from here and
around the world."
Comments attributed to Energy and
Decarbonisation Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson:
"Batteries will be an important component of
our energy mix as we drive towards becoming a renewable energy powerhouse.
"It is fascinating to see some of the battery
technologies being tested as part of this GreenTech Hub challenge, which has
attracted local and international innovators.
"I wish them well and look forward to Western
Australia being the beneficiary of their long-duration energy storage systems."
The submissions chosen
for the final round are from:
- Allegro Energy Pty Ltd - Australian innovators in
Microemulsion Flow Battery (MeFB) combining Australian-made innovation
with a patented microemulsion electrolyte to deliver long duration energy
storage (LDES).
- BroadBit Batteries - Finnish innovators with a
new sodium-based LDES solution that can achieve greater material
efficiencies, cost reduction and lower emissions than current
alternatives.
- Energy Dome - Italian innovators whose CO2
Battery provides long duration of dispatchable storage in compressing CO2
and simultaneously captures heat from that compression.
- e-Zinc Inc. - e-Zinc are Canadian innovators with
a breakthrough LDES technology using a proprietary zinc-air energy storage
system.
- Hynertech Australia Pty Ltd - Australian innovators
with a new liquid organic hydrogen carriers catalyst combination designed to store
and release hydrogen in a reversible chemical reaction.
- Isothermix Pty Ltd - Australian innovators whose
ChillBank™ uses intelligent systems and highly optimised phase change
proprietary materials to store renewable energy as heat.
- Knode Pty Ltd - WA-based innovators whose
proprietary MGA thermal blocks can be flexibly charged through
electrically powered resistance heaters or by capturing waste heat from
existing processes.
- Noon Energy - US innovators developing industrial
scale LDES solution comprised of a power block, which uses reversible
solid oxide electrolyser/fuel cell technology and high density water and
industrial gases as storage media.
- RayGen Resources Pty Ltd - Australian innovators
whose system uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto proprietary
Australian-made, highly efficient solar modules, which capture heat and
store it in water reservoirs.
- RENOZ Energy - WA-based RENOZ Energy is
developing a chemistry-agnostic LDES platform using Brill Power's
Oxford-developed Battery Intelligence System. Their solution adapts to
current and future chemistries.
- Sumitomo SHI FW - based in Finland, they are
developers of grid scale liquid air energy storage with 25 to 100MW long
duration energy storage capacity.
- The Green Energy Company - The Green Energy
Company is establishing WA's first local assembly and integration of
non-flammable, long-life hybrid graphene batteries that deliver
long-duration energy storage.
