UGL to construct Stage 3 of Western Downs battery

Downer empowers women in construction Downer Group (ASX: DOW) is partnering with Wodonga TAFE to launch scholarships to support women from Albury-Wodonga in Victoria to pursue a career in the building and construction industry. The Downer Building and Construction Women’s Scholarship sits alongside several other important successfully delivered plans including two defence projects at Benalla Munitions Facility and the Riverina Redevelopment Program across Wagga Wagga and Wodonga, which generated ongoing employment opportunities and brought new capabilities, technologies and training initiatives to the local community. The two scholarships are valued up to $6,000 each and are open to women enrolled...

Successful applicants announced for round 28 of the Exploration Incentive Scheme WA Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Johnston has announced the successful applicants for round 28 of the Exploration Incentive Scheme’s (EIS) co-funded drilling program and series 6 of the energy analysis program. Round 28 will offer grants worth more than $6m to 33 general applicants and three prospectors for projects to be drilled between December 2023 and November 2024. More than half of the successful applicants are searching for battery minerals, including five projects exploring for lithium, six for rare earth elements and 13 for nickel. Series 6 of the energy analysis program will offer $120k to...

First Graphene receives $2m grant First Graphene’s (ASX: FGR) collaborative project with Halocell Energy and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has received a Cooperative Research Centres Project (CRC-P) grant worth $2.02 million. The grant was awarded under round 14 of the Australian Government’s CRC-P collaborative research funding stream and will support the project over three years. The project aims to commercialise ultra-low-cost, flexible perovskite solar cell fabrication using Halocell’s roll-to-roll (R2R) production process at its Wagga Wagga plant. Halocell Energy chief executive Paul Moonie commented on the partnership. “Working with QUT and First Graphene for this project is an exemplar of our real-world approach,” he said. “QUT as the university...