This morning at West Tech Fest Coast, Innovation and the Digital Economy Minister Stephen Dawson announced the GreenTech Hub’s first innovation challenge would be to explore advanced energy storage systems with a goal to reducing reliance on fossil fuels and therefore decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Minister Dawson commented, “The GreenTech Hub will be a catalyst to inspire, mobilise and connect green entrepreneurship and commercialisation across WA.”
“The hub has now set its first challenge with energy storage and will work alongside industry, government, academics and others on how WA can lead the charge into the future.”
The GreenTech Hub is part of the $40 million Lower Carbon Grants Program (LCG) – Gorgon Fund announced at last year’s West Tech Fest, with a joint funding agreement between the Cook Government and the Chevron-operated Gorgon Joint Venture.
As part of the LCG program, the hub is a $4 million initiative over four years and aims to build State-wide capability and capacity in green technologies and services.
Earlier this year, Curtin University was announced as the operator of the GreenTech Hub.
Curtin University is managing the connection and collaboration between industry and academic experts by hosting innovation challenges and accelerator programs.
Each hub innovation challenge will be supported by a dedicated consortium of industry partners focusing on identifying and deploying new technologies to help resolve the identified problem, or challenge.
In this first challenge, exploring energy storage technologies will provide communities in the future with new clean and stable solutions. This includes investigating long-duration and scalable technologies to enhance reliability and efficiency for both urban and remote applications.
