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The Billion-Dollar Opportunity: Financing the Circular Transition

The Billion-Dollar Opportunity: Financing the Circular Transition

At Smart Energy Conference 2026 last week, Cyan Ventures' Michael Robinson delivered a keynote on the financing challenge sitting underneath Australia's circular materials transition. The argument was straightforward. Australia is investing hundreds of billions in renewable infrastructure. Most of the materials value…
Michael RobinsonMichael RobinsonMay 8, 2026 Read More
Reflections from a big week in Renewable Fuels - 2026 renewables summit
Reflections from a big week in Renewable Fuels

Reflections from a big week in Renewable Fuels

At the Australia Renewable Fuels Summit in Sydney, Fraser Thompson joined policymakers, investors and industry leaders as the US-Israel strikes on Iran transformed fuel security from abstract risk into national emergency. The Strait of Hormuz, through which one fifth of global oil…
Dr. Fraser ThompsonDr. Fraser ThompsonApril 10, 2026 Read More

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Debunking the Myths of Climate Economics

Debunking the Myths of Climate Economics

At the University of Melbourne's Careers in Economics event, Cyan Ventures co-founder Fraser Thompson delivered a keynote address to the Economics Student Society of Australia, challenging five pieces of received wisdom that…
March 19, 2026 Read More
Commercialising 250m+ of Clean Tech Research

Commercialising 250m+ of Clean Tech Research

Cyan Ventures is supporting the commercialisation of clean energy technology through its work for the Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE). TRaCE is a $250m+ partnership between University of New South…
March 13, 2026 Read More
Cheaper Home Batteries Program: Lessons Learnt and Opportunities for 2.0

Cheaper Home Batteries Program: Lessons Learnt and Opportunities for 2.0

At Climate Action Week, Cyan Ventures and Energy Consumers Australia convened a panel on the Cheaper Home Batteries programme to unpack what has become one of Australia's largest and fastest-moving energy subsidies…
March 12, 2026 Read More
Australia’s untapped energy opportunity: Virtual Power Plants

Australia’s untapped energy opportunity: Virtual Power Plants

Australia is sitting on a multi-billion-dollar clean energy asset, and barely using it. Not some future mega-project. Not more poles and wires. The tech is already on roofs and in garages –…
December 3, 2025 Read More
The economy needs nature – and we can prove it

The economy needs nature – and we can prove it

Australia is a continent of natural wonders, from the world-famous Great Barrier Reef, teeming with marine life, to lush forests that shelter unique species found nowhere else on Earth. Today, these wonders…
September 2, 2025 Read More
Beyond Learning Curves: A Practical Way to Judge Competitiveness Across Green Industries

Beyond Learning Curves: A Practical Way to Judge Competitiveness Across Green Industries

Australia’s Productivity Commission has been clear that public support for the net-zero transition should rest on a hard fact base. In its interim report on Investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation,…
August 25, 2025 Read More
Deploying Green Capital to Solve Australia’s Productivity Crisis

Deploying Green Capital to Solve Australia’s Productivity Crisis

As economist Paul Krugman famously quipped, “Productivity isn't everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything.” This is particularly the case in Australia where an ageing workforce, slower birth rates,…
August 17, 2025 Read More
FOAK or Fail: Why Australia Must Back First-of-a-Kind Clean-Energy Projects – and How to Do It

FOAK or Fail: Why Australia Must Back First-of-a-Kind Clean-Energy Projects – and How to Do It

By Fraser Thompson (Cyan Ventures), with insights from David Yeh and Bernie Yoo (Precursor); and Julian Ryba-White (Mark1). Historians may look back on this decade as the moment heavy-industry decarbonisation either leapt…
July 27, 2025 Read More
Exploring choices and economic impacts for SAF in New Zealand

Exploring choices and economic impacts for SAF in New Zealand

Ready for Take-off? Aviation plays a vital role in New Zealand’s economy. It underpins the tourism sector, supports high-value exports, and connects New Zealand with the rest of the world. At the same…
July 21, 2025 Read More
Unlocking Australia’s Battery Recycling Opportunity

Unlocking Australia’s Battery Recycling Opportunity

Unlocking Australia’s Battery Recycling Opportunity At the Australian Battery Manufacturing & Recycling Summit, Michael Robinson had the opportunity to share why battery end-of-life systems are no longer a future challenge — they’re…
July 18, 2025 Read More
Jet Green, Spend Lean: Crafting Australia’s SAF Mandate

Jet Green, Spend Lean: Crafting Australia’s SAF Mandate

Low-carbon liquid fuels (LCLF)— think sustainable biofuels and synthetic e-fuels—are the workhorses of deep decarbonisation. They slip straight into aircraft, ships, heavy trucks and high-heat industrial processes where batteries and electrification still…
July 7, 2025 Read More
Boardrooms, Not Cabinets: Where the Big Bets on Australia’s Clean Power Must Happen

Boardrooms, Not Cabinets: Where the Big Bets on Australia’s Clean Power Must Happen

After a lost decade of incoherent energy policy, Labor’s first three years have restarted the clean energy engine. Renewables’ share of the National Electricity Market jumped from 35 percent in 2022 to…
June 24, 2025 Read More