A team from The University of Queensland has claimed a world record for a type of perovskite solar cell, demonstrating results of 16.65 per cent efficiency converting sunlight to electricity. According to a statement from UQ, the team led by Professor Lianzhou Wang (pictured in middle) developed a “tin halide perovskite” (THP) solar cell performing…
Solar and hydro thermal energy startup RayGen Resources has announced the close of a Series D funding round worth $127 million, led by a follow-on investment from US oil and gas services company SLB. In a statement on Thursday, the company said the $31 million investment from SLB was in addition with the execution of…
Waaree Energies, the largest solar PV manufacturer in India is launching an Australia subsidiary.
Packaging and recycling company Visy says it will have new solar panel arrays up and running at seven of its 120-plus Australian sites next month, representing a combined 4,500 kilowatts of generation capacity. In a statement on Tuesday, the company said it partnered with Energy Aware on six sites in Victoria and 1K5° Commercial in…
The federal government has approved the 450-megawatt Goulburn River Solar Farm, a project budgeted at $880 million and which will include a million solar panels, a battery storage system, and upgrades to the surrounding road. According to a statement from federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek on Monday, the Upper Hunter region project – located between…
The Victorian government has given BrightNight approval to begin development of the $700 million Mortlake Energy Hub, a hybrid solar and battery energy storage project. Victorian energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio said on Thursday that the fast-tracked project is expected to create approximately 300 construction jobs. According to its website, the energy hub is planned as…
First Graphene has announced a two-year agreement with Halocell to supply graphene used in solar cells, ahead of the release of Halocell’s first commercially-available perovskite solar module this month In a statement to the ASX on Thursday, First Graphene said its customer had been able to “expedite its manufacturing process and enhance [the] light absorbing…
The 600-megawatt Birriwa Solar and Battery Project in NSW’s central west has been given federal approval, with environment minister Tanya Plibersek claiming this as “another big step” towards the nation becoming a renewable energy superpower. In a statement on Monday, the project west of Dubbo was described as including approximately a million solar panels and…
The federal government has given environmental approval for the first stage of SunCable’s Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPL) project in the Northern Territory, which is planned as the nation’s biggest solar farm and a potential exporter of electricity to Singapore. There were “strict conditions to protect nature” attached to the approval, according to a statement from…
By Bruce Mountain, Victoria University Imagine if Australian cities became major producers of clean energy, rather than relying on far-flung solar and wind farms. Far fetched? Hardly. Our cities and towns are full of warehouses, commercial areas, shopping centres and factories. These types of buildings have one very important underutilised resource – large expanses of…
