Highlights of its work include:

	SOLAR TECHNOLOGY WINS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD Solar cell technology developed at the ANU Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSES) has won a Banksia environmental award for environmental leadership in infrastructure and services. CSES and commercial partner Origin Energy were joint winners of the award. Sliver® solar cells produce electricity from solar radiation and will soon be commercially available from Origin Energy’s new manufacturing plant in Adelaide. They offer significant benefits compared with traditional solar cells. For a complete Press Release, click here. For more information about the Sliver® technology click here.
	Origin starts construction of $20 million revolutionary Sliver® solar power plant in South Australia. Origin Energy announced construction is underway on its $20 million solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing plant in Adelaide, South Australia. The new plant will make solar power panels to demonstrate Origin’s revolutionary Sliver® Solar Cell technology developed with the Australian National University’s Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems. Designed to produce up to 5MW of PV modules per year initially, the plant will be readily expandable to 25MW per year should it meet all design objectives and prove Sliver® technology can be applied at a mass produced scale. It will use world-class solar cell manufacturing technology and specially developed automated module assembly techniques. For complete Press Release click here.	Sliver® technology uses 90% less of the expensive silicon than current conventional solar PV modules yet delivers commercially competitive cell and module efficiencies.
	CSES is constructing a large (CHAPS) concentrating solar system that provides both electricity and hot water to a new student residence to be built on the ANU campus at Bruce Hall. For complete Press Release, click here.	Commercial CHAPS solar concentrator system on Bruce Hall

	Invention of a high efficiency low cost concentrator solar cell.
	High efficiency multi-crystalline silicon cell: 18.6% (4cm2).
	Development and demonstration of a commercial photovoltaic PV/Trough Concentrating System.

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