Australian Solar

Professor Hao's multiple world record efficiencies with rising star kesterite solar cells

This article is extracted from ACAP 10 Years - Creating a Pipeline of Opportunities Featuring: Professor Xiaojing Hao ARC Future Fellow,...

ACAP researchers develop 'gold standard' tech for diagnosis of defects in solar utility plants using daytime photoluminescence imaging

With ACAP support, large scale surveillance of solar utility plants is now possible using PL imaging in daylight.

Solar Panel Recycling or End of Life Management Scoping Study

An in-depth analysis of best practice and cost-effective strategies to manage solar panels end of life in Australia.

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

An Interview with ACAP Solar Pioneers Professors Martin Green and Andrew Blakers

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...

ACAP researcher Brett Hallam wins 2022 PM's Award for New Innovators

Congratulations to UNSW's Brett Hallam, whose pioneering solar cell research work with ACAP has been recognised with the 2022 Prime...

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...

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...

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...

Vietnam Golden Globe Awards in Science and Technology for Early Career Scientists 2021

ACAP warmly congratulates ANU's Dr Hieu Nguyen on being a 2021 recipient of the Golden Globe Awards in Science and Technology for Early...

Technology and engineering academy says not to wait for a ‘miracle’ and aim for net zero emissions

The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering has released a position statement calling on the Australian federal government to...

2020 ACAP Annual Report & Highlights

In an unprecedentedly challenging year for the world, ACAP was proud to be able to continue our world-leading photovoltaic research...

Flexible solar panels: new stretch of the imagination | CSIRO

Credit: Rowan Muller. ACAP colleagues at the CSIRO in Melbourne have made thrilling progress with the fabrication process of flexible...

‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world

In the Guardian, Royce Kurmelovs writes of the incredible story of the global rise of solar power, "Australian smarts and Chinese...