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

Australia’s leadership in photovoltaic (PV) research was on full display at the 42nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and...

The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics congratulates Professor Blakers on his appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia.

ACAP member Professor Andrew Blakers is the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Clunies Ross Technology Innovation Award.

Writing in the Conversation, ACAP ANU's Andrew Blakers highlights the unstoppable global growth of solar, and why its projected further...

On the back of the QE Prize for the PERC cell, ACAP's Martin Green and Andrew Blakers discuss the origins of the world-changing...