Australian solar

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...

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...

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...

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...

Australia has a golden opportunity to expand solar energy manufacturing | [GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA]

The Australian PV Institute (APVI) at UNSW has released a new white paper highlighting the enormous investment opportunities for...

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...

SMH | Solar panels on public housing could save tenants $750 a year: report

"A joint report by the University of NSW and the Australian Photovoltaic Institute says adding solar panels to the nation’s 440,000...

Podcast: Revolutionising energy with Australia’s “solar superman”

Listen in to Prof Martin Green's interview with ARENA's Rewired podcast, to dive into the history of the PERC solar cell and its global...

'You could get ultra-cheap solar far sooner than you think' | Australian Financial Review

ACAP Director Martin Green speaks with the Financial Review about the incredible drop in the cost of solar, with today's modules costing...

New advanced optical characterisation capabilities installed at ACAP ANU

The Australian National University (ANU) ACAP node are glad to announce the installation of new equipment which will establish an...

University of Melbourne installs world-leading, ultrafast laser spectroscopy laboratory equipment

An ACAP team at the University of Melbourne, lead by Prof. Trevor Smith, are thrilled to have overseen the installation of brand new...

ARENAWire: Electrifying our lives with Professor Renate Egan

Working on solar since the 1990s, ACAP's Professor Egan has helped to transform the way we consume energy, more recently taking up the...

Monster solar farm backed by Atlassian founder about to get ‘significantly bigger’

In order to improve the efficiency of Sun Cable’s proposed giant solar farms, the company has teamed up with the University of NSW-based...

UNSW's PERC Cell Featured in ABC Catalyst

In a timely look at how Australia could fulfil its renewable energy targets by making the most of our abundant sunshine, ABC's Catalyst...

Yoann Buratti and Di Kang win IEEE PVSC 2021 Student of the Year Award

Congratulations to ACAP's Yoann Burrati at SPREE, UNSW, and Di Kang at ANU who have won the IEEE PVSC 2021 student of the year award for...

ARENA-backed RayGen partnership with AGL will bring new "solar-hydro" plants to Victoria and NSW

Renew Economy reports that ACAP collaborating industry participant, RayGen, has secured a forthcoming 3MW/50MWh ‘solar hydro’ facility...

ACAP Researcher Xiaojing Hao Wins Australian Academy of Science 2021 Pawsey Medal

ACAP researcher and UNSW Scientia Associate Professor, Xiaojing Hao, has added another prestigious award to her collection of...