Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics

Climate chamber with integrated solar simulator and in situ current-voltage measurements at UNSW

ACAP is pleased to announce that the Solar Industrial Research Facility (SIRF) at UNSW has reached a significant milestone with the...

Energy Data Platform available at UNSW

The Energy Data Platform (EDP) is a dynamic and growing dataset of 5-minute PV generation and energy usage data for households across...

It's been a huge year for ACAP, here's just a few of our highlights

2023 has been a big year in Australia renewables and solar, and an even bigger year for us here at ACAP. We'd love to share some of those...

ACAP UNSW adds Conifer single-side wafer etching system capabilities to its lab facilities

ACAP partner The Australian PV Institute launches study on local PV manufacturing opportunities

Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, speaks with the APVI's Muriel Watt at 5B in Sydney Minister for Climate Change and...

ACAP Partners With VRX Silica On New Solar Panel Recycling Research

ACAP at UNSW is excited to announce a new industry research partnership between the centre and VRX Silica in Western Australia. The...

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...

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,...