Government · 51 deals
Every published round Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MGA Thermal | Developer of Miscibility Gaps Alloy blocks for industrial thermal energy storage | 2023, Grant | 5 | 3 |
| Amber Electric | Energy retailer offering flexible, market-driven household energy plans | 2025, Grant | 2 | 2 |
| 5B | 22 May 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 | |
| Aboriginal Clean Energy Partnership (ACEP) | 19 Mar 2024, Grant | 1 | 1 | |
| Atyenhenge-Atherre Aboriginal Corporation (AAAC) | 23 Apr 2026, Grant | 1 | 1 | |
| Ausgrid | Australian utility partner of Neara | 1 Sep 2026, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Blackmores | Australian natural health company | 30 Sep 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| City of Newcastle | 1 Sep 2026, Grant | 1 | 1 | |
| Edify Green Hydrogen Project (EGH2) | Green hydrogen project at the Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct in Townsville, planned to … | Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Energus | Studying a solar-grade polysilicon production facility at AGL's Hunter Energy Hub | 6 Aug 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Fortescue | Mining company using CorePlan's platform | 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water | 27 Jun 2024, Grant | 1 | 1 | |
| HAMR Energy | Converts plantation forestry residues into low-carbon methanol fuels for aviation and shi… | 22 Jul 2026, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| McCain Foods | One of Australia's largest manufacturers | 30 Sep 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Ngardara Solar Microgrid | Utility-scale solar-battery microgrid in Borroloola | 23 Apr 2026, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| PowerPlus Energy | battery and nanomaterials business | 26 Aug 2026, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| RayGen Resources | 31 Aug 2023, Grant | 1 | 1 | |
| RELA Australia | a company that matches landowners with developers | 27 Mar 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Relectrify | Victorian-headquartered developer of battery technology | 22 Oct 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| SA Power Networks | Australian utility partner of Neara | 4 May 2024, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Solquartz | Running a feasibility study into 100,000 tpa solar-grade polysilicon production near Town… | 6 Aug 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Stellar PV | Company planning a 2 GW ingot pulling and wafering facility for solar silicon wafers near… | 6 Aug 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Sugar Australia | One of Australia's largest manufacturers; retails its products under the CSR brand | 30 Sep 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Sundrivesolar | Solar cell technology replacing silver with copper to reduce costs | 1 Nov 2023, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Sunman Group | Maker of lightweight flexible eArc solar panels, building the Hunter Valley Solar Foundry | 2 Dec 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Tindo | Solar panel manufacturer and installer based in South Australia, also selling systems pai… | Aug 2025, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| University of New South Wales | 31 Jul 2024, Grant | 1 | 1 | |
| YES Group | Regional community battery project deploying 14 community batteries across regional South… | 1 Sep 2026, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Zenobē | Electric fleet and charging infrastructure operator | 11 Sep 2024, Grant | 1 | 1 |
| AGL | Major Australian energy retailer | 25 Mar 2022, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| AMSL Aero | 8 Nov 2023, Grant | 1 | 0 | |
| Built Robotics | Nov 2024, Grant | 1 | 0 | |
| Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners | Developer of the 1,500 MW Murchison green hydrogen project in Western Australia | 2024, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| ElectraLith | Developer of a novel electrochemical direct lithium extraction technology producing batte… | 10 Aug 2026, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| G&K O'Connor | 27 Jun 2024, Grant | 1 | 0 | |
| Hysata | University of Wollongong spin-out developing capillary-fed electrolysis cells for green h… | 9 Apr 2024, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| Indigo Power | Victorian renewable energy company | 6 Mar 2026, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| Intercontinental Energy | Developer of large wind, solar and hydrogen export hubs | 2026, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| Jet Charge | EV charging company whose project explores network benefits from vehicle-to-grid technolo… | 12 Oct 2023, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| Li-S Energy | lithium-sulfur battery developer | Nov 2025, Grant | 2 | 0 |
| NeoSmelt | Project for downstream processing of direct reduced iron | 17 Jun 2025, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| Orica | World’s largest provider of commercial explosives and blasting systems | 2025, Grant | 1 | 0 |
| Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | 9 Apr 2024, Grant | 1 | 0 | |
| SunDrive | Nov 2023, Grant | 2 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) did.
Stories naming Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Hysata has received an ARENA grant of up to $49 million to build a commercial-scale electrolyser manufacturing line at Port Kembla, with UOW and TAFE NSW Illawarra supporting workforce training around the project.
ARENA is putting $8.2 million toward Electric Future's Go Electric pilot, which will trial a one-stop digital platform helping as many as 1,000 Canberra households move from gas to electric appliances.
ARENA marks 100 community batteries installed under its funding initiative and announces $23.2 million in new grants for three Round 2 battery projects led by YES Group, Ausgrid and the City of Newcastle.
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Orica will proceed with its Hunter Valley green hydrogen plant after a final investment decision, the first under Hydrogen Headstart; earlier government grants to it and CIP's Murchison are recalled.
Orica has reached a final investment decision for its Hunter Valley green hydrogen and ammonia project, confirming government grant support, while other planned Australian hydrogen projects advance slowly or have been abandoned.
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has granted EV charging startup ReadySteadyPlug $1.51 million toward a $3.49 million project installing as many as 428 charge points for apartment and strata residents.
ARENA is providing $11 million for two remote Northern Territory microgrid projects, at Borroloola and Ltyentye Apurte, co-developed with First Nations community organisations.
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ARENA's Battery Breakthrough Initiative backs its first two recipients: PowerPlus Energy gains $2.32 million to expand Victorian pack assembly, while Firebird Metals receives $2 million toward a Perth battery-materials plant.
ARENA grants $8.3 million for a First Nations-led solar and battery microgrid at Borroloola in the Northern Territory, with nearly $3 million more for a proposed microgrid at Ltyentye Apurte.
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PowerPlus Energy, a Victorian battery maker, has received a government grant to help automate and expand its local production capacity.
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Edify Energy's Townsville green hydrogen project has been pulled from the federal environmental approval queue after two-and-a-half years, despite earlier grant wins from Arena and a federal hydrogen hubs program.
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ARENA's media release marks a milestone in its funded project with Amber Electric: the first vehicle-to-grid charger installed in an Australian home, which the agency frames as transformative for the power system.
ARENA has awarded BluVein a $9m grant to trial its dynamic charging system for heavy electric mining trucks, aiming to cut diesel use in mining; the program's next round opens late 2025.
MGA Thermal, a Hunter Valley energy storage maker, has banked $17 million from IP Group and others to commercialise its heat-storage technology, lifting its total funding to $50 million.
MGA Thermal, a NSW-based thermal energy storage developer, has received a $3.25 million grant from ARENA to fund engineering design studies aimed at commercialising its block-based heat storage technology for industrial use.
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ARENA announces grants for three electric-vehicle charging projects, with Flow Power the largest recipient, and reports grant recipient Zenobē has opened a Sydney depot for charging electric trucks.
ARENA announces a conditional grant of as much as $151m for Sunman Group to build a large solar module factory in NSW, under the federal government's Solar Sunshot program.
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Weekly roundup of eight raises totalling $572.12 million, led by Firmus's $500 million round; RAGE Biotech, SunDrive, Number 8 Bio, Fabra, Keeyu, MyGig and Drone-Hand also funded, plus two RAGE Biotech executive appointments.
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The renewable energy agency will grant SunDrive up to $25.3 million to scale its copper solar cell technology with partners Maxwell and Vistar, adding to $14 million in earlier support.
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The renewable energy agency has committed as much as $45m to Fortescue's Pilbara solar testing hub, where demonstration projects with Built Robotics and 5B will trial construction robotics and rapid-deployment solar technology.
The renewable energy agency has awarded A$25 million to Melbourne battery firm Relectrify to roll out its inverter-free AC1 storage systems, building on earlier agency funding that helped develop the technology.
ARENA grants $34.5 million to solar module maker Tindo and $11 million across Solquartz, Energus and Stellar PV for polysilicon feasibility studies under the federal Solar Sunshot program.
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ARENA commits $19.8 million to NeoSmelt, a low-carbon steelmaking venture backed by BHP, Rio Tinto, BlueScope, Woodside and Mitsui; the pilot project near Perth earlier secured $75 million from Western Australia.
ARENA is funding South32 to study electrifying steam production at its Western Australia alumina refinery, having previously backed similar decarbonisation trials by Alcoa and Rio Tinto.
Government agency ARENA is granting $4.4 million for a pre-feasibility study into steam electrification at South32's Western Australian alumina refinery, with earlier backing of Alcoa and Rio Tinto also recalled.
Manufacturing roundup: Nourish Ingredients' precision fermentation milestone, MyNu Energy's investment from Melt Ventures, a refused Veolia licence, AusBiotech committee applications, UOW community batteries, a Gold Coast rail contract, and Premcar's South African launch.
Battery unit VSPC reports growing investor interest after an Australian Renewable Energy Agency grant, while still seeking funds for its demonstration plant and appointing a US sales agent.
ARENA is granting A$20.8 million to Western Power for Project Jupiter, a three-year distributed energy marketplace in Western Australia run alongside Synergy, Energy Policy WA and AEMO.
Chevron, MGA Thermal's first major customer, will run an engineering study of a five-megawatt-hour clean steam unit using the Newcastle company's thermal storage technology, with Anacapa as EPC partner; the budget is undisclosed.
ARENA has awarded UNSW $1.7 million for Project CICCADA, a $4.3 million research effort analysing data from rooftop solar, batteries and electric vehicles to inform integration of consumer energy resources into the grid.
Orkestra, a Melbourne clean-energy software firm, won $2.77 million in ARENA co-funding to accelerate commercial EV charger rollout; a year earlier it banked $2 million in seed funding from Tidal Ventures.
The renewable energy agency commits grant funding to two solar projects: forecasting software at PV Lighthouse and robot automation of solar farm construction at Built Robotics.
Vast's chief executive argues hydrogen demand is maturing, with shipping and aviation emerging as anchor customers for green methanol and eSAF, and points to government grant funding for the company's Port Augusta methanol project.
Government agency ARENA funds a Geelong wastewater trial capturing oxygen byproduct from Viva Energy's hydrogen electrolyser to cut treatment emissions.
Australia's renewable energy agency conditionally allocates up to $143 million to twenty named recipients for a national rollout of as many as 370 community batteries, with a second grant round flagged.
ARENA awards $1.98 million in feasibility-study grants to ten businesses, from meat processors to a water corporation, to investigate renewable energy and efficiency projects that cut industrial emissions.
Roundup of nine local startups that together banked a combined $38m-plus this week, spanning precision instruments, proptech, adtech, robotics, food, energy storage and AI, with several earlier raises recalled.
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MGA Thermal's own newsroom post announces another $2.48 million from ARENA, tripling the federal agency's support for its thermal storage demonstration project, with quotes from both organisations' chief executives.
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Vast Renewables and Mabanaft have signed a joint development agreement advancing Vast's South Australian solar methanol plant, with Mabanaft holding offtake rights and ARENA plus German government funding behind the project.