“Climate technology methane electrolysis” in test operation

Austria’s largest ground-mounted solar thermal plant was ceremonially opened a few days ago in Mürzzuschlag by In the model region for 100% green energy supply, the RAG Energy Valley in Krift near Kremsmünster (Upper Austria), Austria’s first methane electrolysis plant in an industrial environment was put into operation in the presence of Federal Minister Magnus Brunner, […]

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 […]