Renewable Energy Manufacturing - Solar Challenge Statements
The Challenge Statements below are designed to inspire and attract Australia's world-class Solar and Manufacturing research and development (R&D) expertise to help address the most pressing challenges faced by India's leading solar manufacturing businesses.
Product performance and differentiation
- Durability through materials - development of advanced materials for solar PV modules to improve reliability, reduce warranty claims, and lower total module failure rates
- Durability through processes - process-level improvements for module integrity
- Efficiency - enhancement through cell-to-module (CTM) integration, optical management and thermal control to maximise output from existing cell production and module assembly lines and deliver higher yield per watt under harsh real-world conditions
- Functional design for aesthetics - developing module designs that meet architectural and visual requirements, enabling new deployment locations including Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)
Manufacturing speed, flexibility and localisation
- Expedited manufacturing - deployment-ready process improvements with embedded researcher or fast-turnaround formats
- Supply chain alignment - to develop and improve locally scalable and high-performance materials for solar manufacturing (encapsulants, junction boxes, frames)
- Localisation - to improve supply chain strength and sovereignty, increase uptime of capex-heavy facilities, and minimise retooling requirements
- Differentiation - to launch next generation cell architectures, high-efficiency products without major factory reconfiguration
Knowledge transfer
- Knowledge transfer - training and upskilling for efficiency improvements, supply chain strengthening, and research-industry applications.