- 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
As stated by 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."
As stated by 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 achievegreater 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.
- KnodePty 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 developinga 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.
