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Businesses and organisations can now apply for X-TEND WA funding, a competitive co-investment grants program supporting organisations that deliver initiatives to assist and promote the WA Innovation Ecosystem, at any time during the year.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has confirmed $1.9 billion in new investment commitments in the 2022-23 fiscal year, including a record $1.2 billion in renewable energy and grid-related funding commitments by Australia’s ‘green bank’, delivered despite adverse market conditions.

Operators in the recycling and processing industries in Western Australia are eligible to apply for a share of a $1 million fund to encourage investments in infrastructure projects, the government announced. 

Southern Gold Limited announced that its battery technology firm IonDrive Technologies (IDT) has been named the primary partner organisation in a newly awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) battery recycling centre in Adelaide, South Australia.

Gold Coast innovator ModnPods is ramping up production by officially opening a new modular pod factory in Arundel that will potentially produce up to 200 modular pods, including some purpose-built government employee housing.

Bosch has opened a new semiconductor test centre in Penang, Malaysia, investing EUR 65 million (AUD 109 million) to create additional capacity within the company’s global manufacturing network to meet the continued high demand for chips and sensors. 

Australian clean energy company MGA Thermal has secured $8.25 million in funding as the company moves to scale its long-duration energy storage (LDES) solution. 

Australian quantum computing hardware manufacturer Silicon Quantum Computing has completed its $50.4 million Series A capital round in a push to develop the world’s first scalable, error-corrected quantum computer.

Australian respiratory imaging tech company 4DMedical Limited has secured $1.1 million in funding from the Clinical Translation and Commercialisation Medtech (CTCM) program, an initiative of the Medical Research Future Fund delivered by MTPConnect. 

A Monash University-led research into growing human brain cells onto silicon chips, with new continual learning capabilities to transform machine learning, has been awarded almost AUD 600,000 under the National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants Program.