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Energy

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Our energy research focuses on the development and advancement of renewable energy technologies for electricity, fuels and materials production, industrial processes, and heating and cooling applications.

The investigations are predominantly related to solar energy conversion through photovoltaic, thermal, thermochemical and hybrid systems. We also study hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass and thermoelectric systems, compatible energy storage technologies, from thermal to thermochemical to electrochemical, as well as grid integration.

Research projects address challenges in basic sciences, engineering, system integration and techno-economics, which result in fundamental technology discoveries, device and system prototypes, and commercial products.

Explore our available research projects below and if you’d like to discuss opportunities for collaboration or funding, please email us.

Energy Storage
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Our global energy systems are currently in rapid transformation, particularly through uptake of photovoltaic and wind power, driven by emissions...

Photovoltaics
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Photovoltaics research at ANU is at the global cutting edge, spanning the entire spectrum of solar electricity technologies—from solar forecasting...

Solar Dish at ANU
Solar Thermal  »

Our leading-edge research encompasses basic sciences, engineering and techno-economics for development and advancement of solar thermal and hybrid...

Academic staff

Dr Zainul Abdin
Dr Charles-Alexis Asselineau
Dr Fiona J Beck
Dr Lachlan Black
Professor Andrew Blakers
Dr Manuel Blanco
Professor Kylie Catchpole
Dr Sid Chau
Associate Professor Joe Coventry
Dr. The Duong
Dr Marco Ernst
Dr Kean Chern Fong
Dr Alexey Glushenkov
Dr. Jose Iria
Dr Siva Karuturi
Dr Peter Kreider
Professor Wojciech Lipinski
Dr Anyao Liu
Dr Bin Lu
Professor Daniel Macdonald
Dr Md Arafat Mahmud
Dr Chathurika Mediwaththe
Dr Hieu Nguyen
Dr. Pheng Phang
Mr Johannes Pottas
Assoc Professor John Pye
Dr Tom Ratcliff
Dr Elizabeth Ratnam
Dr Paul Scott
Dr Ankur Sharma
Dr Heping Shen
Dr Hang Cheong Sio
Dr Matt Stocks
Taffy Tong
Dr Juan Felipe Torres
Professor Antonio Tricoli
Mr Daniel Walter
Dr Xiaolin Wang
Dr Er-Chien Wang
Dr Ye Wang
Assoc Professor Klaus Weber
A/Prof Tom White

Collaborator

Mr Hugo Temby

Student

Mengyu Chen
Miss Jingjing Chen
Cheng Cheng
Mr Armando Fontalvo Lascano
Mr Morteza Hangi
Keqing Huang
Mr Siddharth Iyer
Shubhankar Kapoor
Mr Zebedee Kee
Mavineet Kumar
Ms Lifeng Li
Mr Will Logie
Ms Tara Lu
Mr Scott Mackie
Mr Gowtham Mohan
Razon Kumar Mondal
Naeimeh Mozaffari
Ms Anna Nadolny
Khoa Nguyen
Ms Nanduni Indeewaree Nimalsiri
Mr Jun Peng
Dr Alireza Rahbari
Mr Asim Riaz
Ms Astha Sharma
Mr Mahdiar Taheri
Mr Shiyang Tang
Mike Tebyetekerwa
Mr Thien Truong
Mr Zhu WANG
Zhongshu Yang
Joyce Yeoh
Mr Fengyuan Zhang
Ms Maggie Zheng

Technical staff

Dr Kate Booker
Ms Maureen Brauers
Mr Colin Carvolth
Mr James Cotsell
Mrs Nina De Caritat
Mr Liam Hayes
Mr Christopher Jones
Dr Sachin Surve
Mr Ian Szarka

Affiliates

Professor Alan (Al) Weimer

Visitors

Alexander Roger Audouy
Samuel Battenally
Mr Stephane Cremel
Dr Jiabin Fang
Dr Ian Faulconbridge
Anne Haggren
Mr Jonas Huyeng
Dr Xiaolei Li
Mr Julian Schuerz
Matthew Smart
Mr Ary Anggara Wibowo
Mr Song Yang
Dr Yuheng Zeng
Mr Paul Ziesche

Investigator

Dr Osorio Mayon
Alejandro Vidal

Alejandro

Master of Engineering - Solar Energy Technologies '15
With a passion for solar fuel production, Alejandro hopes to use his knowledge to develop and implement renewable energy in Chile where natural...
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Andrew Blakers

"I studied physics and maths at school and at ANU, intending to become an astronomer, but then decided that solar energy was a much more useful area...
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Dr Antonio Tricoli

Dr Antonio Tricoli is a Research Fellow in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at The Australian National University. Nanotechnology is a...
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Kylie Catchpole

Research Fellow at the ANU Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering
Kylie Catchpole is Research Fellow at the ANU Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering. She describes the aim of her research...
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Map of global potential locations for pumped-hydro energy storage
ANU Engineers sink the pumped-hydro energy problem
1 Apr 2019
The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science Researchers have completed a global audit of 530,000 potential locations for pumped-hydro energy storage that...

ANU identifies possible pumped hydro sites in SA
16 Jun 2017
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have identified 185 sites in South Australia potentially suitable for pumped hydro storage, which may help...
Butterfly wings inspire invention that opens door to new solar technologies
18 May 2017
Engineers have invented tiny structures inspired by butterfly wings that open the door to new solar cell technologies and other applications requiring precise...
New efficiency record for low-cost solar cell
4 Apr 2017
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a new record efficiency for low-cost semi-transparent perovskite solar cells in a breakthrough...
Snowy Hydro expansion - ANU experts comment
20 Mar 2017
The Australian Government has announced a $2 billion expansion to the Snowy Hydro scheme, involving new tunnels and pumped hydro storage, designed to help stabilise...
ANU appoints Simon Corbell honorary professor
17 Mar 2017
Former ACT Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Simon Corbell, has been appointed an honorary Associate Professor at the Research School of Electrical,...
Hydro storage can secure 100% renewable electricity
27 Feb 2017
Pumped hydro storage can be used to help build a secure and cheap Australian electricity grid with 100 per cent renewable energy, a new study from The Australian...
PhD student's research recognised by renowned renewable energy experts
2 Feb 2017
ANU Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering PhD student Will Logie has been recognised by renowned climate and renewable energy experts at...
Engineering PhD student wins prestigious industry award
21 Nov 2016
For the second year in a row, a PhD student from the Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering has taken...
New way to make low-cost solar cell technology
14 Nov 2016
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a new way to fabricate high efficiency semi-transparent perovskite solar cells in a breakthrough...

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