November 2025
TPS Energy has joined a national research partnership led by RMIT University, contributing as an industry partner to a proposed ARC Research Hub for Regenerative Innovations for Safety and Sustainability of Clean-Tech Ecosystems (RISE).
The RISE Hub is proposed under the Australian Research Council's Industrial Transformation Research Hub program and brings together industry, government and research institutions to address three systemic risks facing Australia's clean energy transition: technical safety failures, fragile supply chains, and community opposition. TPS Energy's letter of support was provided to the Australian Research Council in November 2025.
The Hub's work is organised around three integrated themes – Safe Assets and Infrastructure, Safe Materials and Supply Chains, and Safe Communities and Environments – supported by a Translation Precinct where innovations are piloted in real infrastructure, independently validated, and prepared for adoption into standards and codes. The aim is to ensure renewable energy systems are not only technically viable but also bankable, insurable, and socially trusted.
TPS Energy's involvement sits primarily within the Safe Assets and Infrastructure theme, which covers passive fire protection for battery energy storage systems, smart detection of renewable energy fires, and validation of emerging technologies including grid-forming inverters and predictive maintenance tools. These priorities align closely with TPS Energy's work in solar, battery storage and grid-support systems.
As an industry partner, TPS Energy will contribute project development expertise, renewable asset deployment capability and engineering resources to support the translation of research into operational infrastructure. The company will provide demonstration platforms – including its solar farm developments, designs and installations – where advanced materials and manufacturing outcomes from the Hub can be tested at scale, enabling validation of performance and safety in real energy-system contexts.
TPS Energy will contribute a total of $625,000 in cash and in-kind contributions across the Hub's term. The cash contribution will fund a PhD scholarship and associated research costs, while in-kind support covers expert input from TPS Energy personnel, who will co-supervise and mentor four PhD students in collaboration with Professor Michael Negnevitsky at the University of Tasmania, alongside access to TPS Energy facilities and sites.