Australia’s only silicon manufacturer has received an almost $40 million grant from the federal government, securing local supply of the key input for solar panels and semiconductors. Simcoa secured the funding under the Powering the Regions Fund on Thursday, allowing the company to remove the use of coal at its silicon processing plan in Wellesley,…

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