Vulcan Energy Resources (ASX: VUL) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Vulcan Energy Resources is developing the world's first Zero Carbon Lithium™ project using renewable energy.
Vulcan Energy Resources
Vulcan Energy Resources is a renewable energy and lithium exploration and development company focused on integrated geothermal energy and lithium hydroxide production in the Upper Rhine Valley. The company utilizes sub-surface geothermal brine to generate renewable heat and electricity while extracting battery-grade lithium using direct lithium extraction technology. Its dual-purpose operations aim to supply low-carbon lithium hydroxide monohydrate to the European electric vehicle battery supply chain alongside renewable heat and power to local communities and industrial customers. Corporate administrative functions are based in Australia, with operational assets, pilot extraction plants, and commercial development sites located in Germany and France.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Vulcan Energy Resources
- Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate: Processing sub-surface geothermal brine to produce targeted commercial capacities of 24,000 tonnes per year of battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate, supplying European automotive and battery manufacturing supply chains for electric vehicle production.
- Renewable Power Supply: Generating renewable electricity from naturally heated geothermal brine in the Upper Rhine Valley, producing approximately 275 GWh of green power annually for grid transmission and self-sustaining onsite operational processing facilities.
- Renewable Thermal Energy: Co-generating and distributing clean geothermal heating capacity of around 560 GWh per year, delivering direct thermal energy to municipal heating networks, local communities, and regional industrial consumers across the Upper Rhine Valley region.
- Direct Lithium Extraction Systems: Utilizing proprietary sorbent-based direct extraction technology to selectively capture lithium ions from sub-surface geothermal brine resources before returning the processed geothermal water back underground through closed-loop re-injection wells.
- Central Lithium Refining: Converting extracted lithium chloride intermediate product into high-purity lithium hydroxide monohydrate at dedicated downstream chemical refining and processing facilities situated near major European transport and manufacturing corridors.
- Subsurface Engineering Services: Operating specialized deep geothermal drilling rigs and surface infrastructure to conduct sub-surface exploratory drilling, well management, reservoir simulation, and energy plant engineering across European operational resource licenses.
Vulcan Energy Resources executive team
- Dr. Francis Edward Barnabas Wedin B.Sc., BSc (Hons), M.B.A., Ph.D.Founder & Executive Chair
- Mr. Cristobal MorenoCEO, MD & Director
- Ms. Felicity Jane Gooding B.Com., F.C.A.Group CFO & Executive Director
- Dr. Horst Dieter Kreuter M.Sc., Ph.D.Co-Founder, Board Advisor & CEO of Germany
- Mr. Carsten BachgChief Operating Officer
- Dr. Stefan Harrison BrandChief Technology Officer
- Mr. Kamuran SalimChief Information Officer
- Mr. Daniel Tydde B.A.Company Secretary & General Counsel
- Ms. Doris ProkoschChief People Officer
- Mr. Thorsten Weimann M.B.A.Chief Development Officer