Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources Mr Peter Batchelor (right) and CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship research leader Dr Gerry Wilson examining a trial print out of flexible organic solar cells.
Rolling out renewable energy with printable solar cells.
World leading research from CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship as part of the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) aims to develop flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells. (5:29)
- 24 February 2009 | Updated 24 November 2011
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While many people would be interested in adopting some form of renewable energy source, often the cost is prohibitive or the technology not quite developed to a stage where it would be easy to take up.
The CSIRO is working on number of renewable energy technologies and has now begun trialling solar cells that are printed like money.
In this podcast, Dr Gerry Wilson from CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship explains how printable solar cells will work, their efficiency and potential to be applied domestically.
Read more about Powering the future – solar cells by the metre (Media release 19 Feb 09).
CSIRO initiated the National Research Flagships to provide science-based solutions in response to Australia’s major research challenges and opportunities. The nine Flagships form multidisciplinary teams with industry and the research community to deliver impact and benefits for Australia.
