Queensland Premier Minister Steven Miles speaks about establishing an Industry for the production of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries in Queensland / Australia.
Queensland Battery Industry Strategy
Queensland Government announces a $570 million strategy to supercharge a new industry for Queensland.
Flow batteries are a core technology of this plan.
https://www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/industry/powering-queenslands-battery-industry
SONAR final meeting in Karlsruhe
The final meeting of the EU project SONAR took place on 13.12.23. As a reminder: In SONAR, seven different research institutions worked on the development of a computational high-throughput screening process for novel organic active materials for redox flow batteries. The demonstrator is available at https://redoxfox.scai.fraunhofer.de. We will provide a final version of the project website at https://www.sonar-redox.eu. In other words, we will now reorganize it somewhat and have already started to do so, so that information and results from the individual SONAR participants will be available.
Finally, and very importantly, the Fraunhofer SCAI is now offering a service for all interested parties as a point of contact for the developed screening process. In principle, the screening is not limited to redox flow batteries, but can ultimately be adapted for all organic materials with specific properties, especially for other battery types.
It has been a special honor for me to coordinate this very interesting project over the last four years with these extremely professional and outstanding partners.
Meeting at the University of Queensland
On November 21, 23, a meeting between ESIAP, QUT, Fraunhofer ICT and UNSW took place in Brisbane at the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering.
The subject of the discussions was the future cooperation between ESIAP, Fraunhofer ICT, UQ and UNSW.
Visit of ESIAP and Queensland University of Technology
On November 20, 2023, a meeting was held in Brisbane at the invitation of Energy Storage Asia Pacific at their location followed by a visit to the Queensland University of Technology. Also present was Prof. Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, developer of the vanadium redox flow battery. The subject of the discussions was the future cooperation of all five institutions, ESIAP, Fraunhofer ICT, QUT, UQ and UNSW.