The federal government has launched round two of the Solar Sunshot program, which is offering a total of $150 million in grants and production credits to support manufacture of solar PV module components, as well as racking, tracking and deployment technologies. Projects supported are expected to involve commercial-scale manufacturing of solar PV technologies at “at…
Solar module maker Tindo Solar was recently awarded $34.5 million in federal government support. Here CEO Richard Petterson answers criticism about assistance to local companies in terms of the “potential unfair advantage” enjoyed by other nations selling into Australia. The big news in renewables last week was the government’s $34.5 million commitment to domestic manufacturing…
Tindo Solar, the nation’s lone producer of solar PV modules, has been awarded $34.5 million in ARENA support under the federal government’s Solar Sunshot Program. According to a statement from the company on Wednesday, this will assist: Increasing production from 20 megawatts to 180 megawatts per year; A feasibility study to develop a “Gigafactory” with…
Innovative solar cell manufacturer SunDrive has announced a major milestone, with the company hitting a copper plating production yield of >99 percent at its commercial pilot production facility in Kurnell, Sydney, with those cells being turned into modules. At the same time SunDrive and aluminium manufacturer Capral entered into a MoU to develop a supply…
Solar PV innovator SunDrive Solar has linked with a big overseas solar manufacturer to help get its technology utilised internationally and establish a major Australian solar manufacturing facility. The company, which has developed solar panels based on copper rather than expensive metal components, has signed a MoU with Trinasolar, one of the world’s largest solar…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) TAFE NSW Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence announced The NSW and federal governments have announced combined funding of $53.95 million to support a new TAFE centre in western Sydney to deliver training in engineering, transport and renewable energy. In a…
By Peter Roberts The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today opened the first phase of the $1 billion Solar Sunshot program to support development of a solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing industry. Solar Sunshot will be rolled out in two phases with $550 million available in grants. Round 1A aims to support solar PV manufacturing…
Australia’s only manufacturer of solar PV panels is beginning to build its local supply chain through an agreement with aluminium extrusion company Capral Aluminium in preparation for embarking on a project to build a massive new factory. While Tindo’s plans to increase its output to 1GW per annum are in the development stage, it has…
Channel Nine media has revealed that a group of 70 economists from the nation’s most important universities support the recently announced Future Made in Australia policy. The exclusive story by well respected journalist Shane Wright in the SMH newspaper also puts a rocket up the Productivity Commission which has continued its long standing antipathy to…
Manufacturing for Australia’s self-sufficiency is a must. Here Dr Mobin Nomvar Founder & MD of Scimita Ventures, examines how we can build on innovation to scale as a nation. In recent years, major conflicts have broken out in Ukraine, a major wheat producer, which together with attacks on ships passing through the Suez Canal and…