JA Solar, a global leader in the photovoltaic (PV) industry, has joined the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) Industry Consortium, a collaborative platform under ACAP and led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

[Updated 27 August 2025] Australia's solar research capabilities are being powerfully advanced through ACAP’s strategic investment in Dr....

ACAP and UNSW’s Empowering Emerging Leaders in Clean Energy (ELICE) program has highlighted the extraordinary potential of strategic...

The 66th version of the PV industry's beacon of progress, the "Solar Cell Efficiency Tables", has 21 new entries. See them here.

The first ELICE workshop bringing clean energy innovators from Australia and China together in Shanghai delivered concrete results.

ACAP researcher Prof. Xiaojing Hao (UNSW) elected to the Australian Academy of Science for advances in CZTS solar cell technology.

A collection of exciting success stories from the first two years of the ACAP 2.0 program, delivering improved solar cell performance and cutting costs across the cell and module supply chain. ACAP is supported by ARENA.

In the ITRPV 2024 report, two Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics members, Prof Bram Hoex (UNSW Sydney) and Adj Prof Gianluca Coletti (FuturaSun/UNSW Sydney adjunct), are among the expert contributors, underscoring ACAP’s influence on global PV strategy. 

UNSW Post doctoral researcher Dr Shukla Poddar shares insights on how to get your research in front of policymakers, after attending the...

New research supported by ACAP has found a pathway to cheaper, more scalable TOPCon technology using specially formulated aluminium pastes i

UNSW has been awarded a $500,000 grant to foster collaboration among budding solar and renewable energy technology innovators from Australia

With support from ACAP, a collaborative research effort between the teams of UNSW Scientia Professor Xiaojing Hao and Professor Jun Peng...

Independent MP Allegra Spender visited UNSW’s Solar Industry Research Facility with Prof. Martin Green and ACAP ED Prof. Renate Egan.

New ACAP research uncovers impact of soldering flux on degradation of HJT and TOPCon cell

On January 21, ACAP Executive Director Renate Egan and Professor Martin Green joined Jo Haylen, NSW Minister for Transport, NSW Premier...

UNSW researchers are consistently leading the development of CZTS solar cell technology, and recently achieved a 13.2% efficiency record...

Researchers at UNSW have developed a methodology using copper plating of a TOPCon solar cell that could increase their lifetime.

An update on the current status, challenges, opportunities and highlights in ACAP's emerging PV materials program. This is a summary of...

ACAP congratulates the outstanding students and early career researchers who won awards at the Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference 2024.

This summary of the current status, challenges and opportunities in ACAP's Device to Module Program Package is drawn from the...