Australian PV research study centre safeguards AU$ 45m in government financing

• The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) has actually obtained funding from the nation's new federal government to proceed its solar study tasks up until 2030.

Funding of AU$ 45 million (US$ 31 million), supplied by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), will extend the centre's work as it makes every effort to develop next-generation PV modern technologies.

Supplied by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) School of Photovoltaic and also Renewable Energy Engineering, ACAP consists of study teams at Australia's scientific research agency CSIRO, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, University of Sydney and Monash University.

ARENA's support will allow ACAP to proceed its study into a lot more effective and also powerful innovations, stated UNSW Professor Martin Green. "The next decade guarantees to be one of the most amazing and also vital in solar PV, ever before, with massively enhanced uptake and technical adjustment," he added.

ARENA promoted ACAP's record of market collaborations, cultivating the spin-out of companies such as solar innovation start-up SunDrive, as well as its cooperations with pioneers such as premade solar solutions producer 5B and also RayGen, a start-up that has created a novel way of integrating PV, concentrated solar energy and thermal energy storage space.

ACAP has additionally coordinated with Sun Cable to improve the efficiency of the company's PV plants as it proceeds with a project in the Northern Territory that might feature approximately 20GWp of solar.

Incoming ACAP supervisor, Professor Renate Egan, claimed the new financing will certainly support around 20 research study others and also more than 65 new students annually, adding: "We're eagerly anticipating collaborating with ARENA to supply low-cost solar innovations with ongoing research."

The news comes after ARENA released a AU$ 40 million funding round previously this year to support research study into ultra-low-cost solar.