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Category: Solar industry press releases & announcements

Articles focusing on press releases & industry announcements both within Australia and abroad.

May 27, 2014
Nitin Nampalli

Ambri’s liquid metal battery edges closer to commercialisation

Promising grid-scale battery technology startup Ambri has recently completed its third round of funding, bringing its unique liquid metal battery closer to full-scale commercialisation. Ambri raised a total of USD […]

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May 27, 2014
James Martin II

Glass sphere concentrator offers creative solution to improving solar PV efficiency

Greater sunlight-to-energy conversion efficiency is something that solar photovoltaic technology manufacturers and researchers alike strive for, and cost-effective efficiency improvements are something of a Holy Grail in the PV industry. […]

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May 27, 2014
Giles Parkinson

IKEA’s new installations with Canadian Solar highlight growing Australian commercial solar sector

Signs are emerging that the Australian commercial solar market is finally taking off, with increasing numbers of businesses and councils signing up for rooftop PV; not least among them IKEA, […]

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May 27, 2014
Nitin Nampalli

Australian concentrated PV technology finds Chinese takers

RayGen Resources, an Australian start-up, has signed a $60 million investment and distribution deal with ZhouZhou Intense Solar to export its concentrated PV-thermal (CSPV) technology as part of an official […]

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June 24, 2014
Giles Parkinson

Solar-powered light sculpture to light up Sydney Harbour at Vivid Festival

Best known for its work helping Indian slum-dwellers replace kerosene lamps with solar lights, Pollinate Energy‘s latest solar lighting project has a slightly less practical purpose. The Australian founded not-for-profit […]

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