Millions in funding for sustainable battery start-up

Austria’s largest ground-mounted solar thermal plant was ceremonially opened a few days ago in Mürzzuschlag by Ursula While conventional batteries cannot do without critical raw materials, a Graz-based start-up is developing a sustainable electricity storage system: Ecolyte – the young company was developed at Science Park Graz – replaces critical raw materials with residues from bio-based […]

First plaster-to-plaster recycling plant in Austria

Cross-industry partnership realises “zero waste vision” for plasterboard The new plant will have an annual capacity of around 60,000 tonnes and will therefore be able to cover the demand in the east of Austria. This will not only conserve Austrian raw material resources, which are not infinitely available, but also the limited landfill volume. This […]

Austria’s largest ground-mounted solar thermal plant opened

Austria’s largest ground-mounted solar thermal plant was ceremonially opened a few days ago in Mürzzuschlag by Ursula Lackner, Styrian State Councillor for the Environment, and Karl Rudischer, Mayor of Mürzzuschlag, as well as Bernd Vogl, Managing Director of the Climate and Energy Fund, together with Stephan Jantscher, SOLID – Solar Energy Systems, and Thomas Hochörtler, […]

Saubermacher enters into a strategic partnership with Redwood

Saubermacher is placing the expansion of its self-developed recycling process for lithium-ion batteries in the hands of the US circular economy specialist Redwood Materials Inc (“Redwood”). Redwood acquired 100 percent of the Saubermacher subsidiary Redux Recycling GmbH, the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in the EU, as of 14. September 2023. Saubermacher remains active in the […]

Innovative data aggregation for decarbonized electricity systems

Electricity systems in Europe will be expanded and transformed in the coming decades to ensure that they are both stable and climate-neutral. Complex optimization models are being used to make the right decisions on the road to decarbonization.  But there is a catch: models of realistic electricity systems are usually so large that even supercomputers […]

High temperature analysis in research focus

Recently, the new research project “Design-SOEC – Knowledge-based design of high-temperature electrolysis cells for optimized hydrogen production” started with the Chair of Physical Chemistry as consortium leader. Major challenges The increased use of renewable energies represents a decisive factor in achieving Austria’s and Europe’s climate targets and energy independence. The development of new technologies for […]