Despairing about climate change? These 4 charts on the growth of solar may change your mind
Writing in the Conversation, ACAP ANU's Andrew Blakers highlights the unstoppable global growth of solar, and why its projected further...
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New Combinatorial Sputtering Facility comes to ACAP at Monash
The sputtering tool's chamber A cutting-edge sputtering capability has been established as part of the Australian Centre for Advanced...
New microwave technology will improve the manufacture of solar cells
The team at Macquarie During the fabrication of solar panels, silicon goes through several high-temperature processes known as annealing....
ACAP ANU reaches 30% solar cell efficiency target
ACAP team at ANU have achieved a solar cell efficiency of 30.3 per cent In an exciting development in the mission to bring the cost of...
ACAP's award highlights from the 2022 Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference
The Australian PV Institute was pleased to host the recent 2022 Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference in Newcastle, New South Wales. For...
Utility Magazine: ACAP and the next generation of solar technologies
Image care of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency In this month's Utility Magazine, Renate Egan, ACAP's incoming director, expands on...
Solar pioneer Martin Green awarded prestigious technology prize
UNSW Professor Martin Green is the first Australian to receive the esteemed Millennium Technology Prize for transforming the production...
You might think solar panels have been perfected, but we can still make them even better and cheaper
Writing in the Conversation, ACAP's UNSW node lead, Renate Egan, explains the further potential of solar power, and Australia's role to...
Martin Green receives the 2020 WCPEC Prize
ACAP and UNSW's Martin Green has been recognised with the namesake prize of the 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion...
ACAP ANU Lab Installs Advanced Perovskite Processing Capability Glovebox
Adding more specialised tools to its research work on perovskite solar cells, ACAP ANU has added a glovebox-integrated, low and...
Light Conversion Pharos Laser Comes to ACAP ANU
ACAP's ANU node brings new, powerful capabilities to its solar research labs with the installation of the Light Conversion Pharos...
$45 million funding to boost ACAP's solar technology research and development
With solar a big part of our energy future, researchers driving Australia’s international lead in solar technology welcome funding...
ACAP's 2021 Impact at a Glance
UPDATED: We are pleased to be able to share the full 2021 ACAP annual report: With all previous years available here. Please contact us...
ACAP's Prof Renate Egan made member of the Smart Energy Council's Solar Hall of Fame
UNSW's Prof Renate Egan joins alongside fellow ACAP leaders Andrew Blakers and Martin Green. Congratulations to ACAP's UNSW node leader,...
ACAP Researcher Hieu Nguyen among Ten Outstanding Young Faces of Vietnam 2021
Hieu Nguyen in the lab at ANU Congratulations to our ACAP ANU colleague, Hieu Nguyen, who has been named one of Vietnam's Ten Outstanding...
CPIA Report: PERC likely to remain solar market leader over the next three years
A new report from the China Photovoltaic Industry Association shows PERC solar cells comprising 91.2% of the global market share of solar...
Unlocking the potential of singlet fission in photovoltaics
UNSW researchers Jessica Yajie Jiang and NJ Ekins-Daukes at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics explain the exciting...
Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering: Making the Cut – Emerging Technologies Required
ACAP UNSW node leader Renate Egan presents at ATSE's Making The Cut seminar on the future of renewable technologies in Australia, and the...
What is renewable energy curtailment and how does it affect rooftop solar? | ABC Science
The ABC reports, 'Rooftop solar owners in every state and territory may be surprised to hear their panels are often being curtailed. For...
ANU breakthrough smashes solar record
Researchers at the Australian National University have beaten their previous record to develop the world’s most efficient perovskite...
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