“There’s a huge opportunity to internationalise our curricula and to collaborate with alumni and partners who are already embedded in these new growth hubs,” Wang says. “We can cultivate the skills and relationships that enable both students and industry to thrive through the energy transition.”

In 2025, ACAP-supported research at ANU materially shaped how governments, utilities and developers plan long-duration energy storage. The Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES) Atlases , led by Professor Andrew Blakers and supported by ACAP, are now embedded in national strategies and commercial pipelines across multiple continents – accelerating the pathway to ultra-low-cost solar (ULCS). Solving solar’s storage constraint Ultra-low-cost solar depends on one critical fact

The modelling shows that ultra-low-cost solar fundamentally changes the economics of Australia’s energy transition.