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Automate, foldout for a solar future

While the efficiency of solar cells will always be important, scaling innovation in sustainable cell technology and solar deployment, is the new game in town. With hydrogen exports and production of green metals in its sights, Australia has some breakthrough tech coming down the pike, as pv magazine Australia’s Natalie Filatoff reports.

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Natalie Filatoff

08 Dec 2022

At this project in Chile’s Atacama Desert, 5B demonstrated its system enables a team of fewer than 10 workers to install more than 1 MW of PV in a day. | Image: 5B

Ultra-low-cost solar (ULCS) has definitively entered the everyday lexicon of energy terms since Darren Miller made it the topic of plenary session conversation at the All-Energy conference in Melbourne in October. Miller is the chief executive of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and ULCS has become the organization’s new push – not just for …

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