This year’s Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC) was hosted by RMIT in Melbourne 5-7 December 2023 celebrating its 10th anniversary. A review of the event and the innovations and consolidations presented there will follow early in the New Year. In the interim, here is a summary of how Exemplary Energy participated in this annual event.
Exemplary Energy presented three oral papers, sponsored or co-sponsored three awards, and hosted a table at the conference dinner.
Our oral papers were titled:
- Mandatory disclosure of residential energy efficiency ratings in the ACT (presentation here)
This paper presented a summary of two decades of data on the relationship between energy star ratings and sale prices of ACT real estate under Australia’s only mandatory disclosure program - Enhancing Australia’s weather and climate data for bench-marking simulations (presentation here)
Outlining the recent improvements to Exemplary’s weather and climate data and tools available in our latest data update - Adapting reference periods for building simulation climate data in a changing climate (presentation here)
A review and analysis of options for applying shorter basis periods in defining climate norms (Reference Meteorological Year – RMY – datasets) to better account for the impacts of a changing climate
We also supported three awards to the finest student researchers based on the quality of the extended abstract and the oral presentation or poster by:
- Co-funding the Wal Read Memorial Award for Best Student Poster, awarded to Yansong Wang of UNSW for the poster Multi-Junction GaAs Photodiode Arrays for Biomedical Applications
- Sponsoring the John Ballinger Award for Best Buildings-related Student Poster or Presentation, awarded to Tharushi Samarasinghalage of RMIT for the oral paper Multi-objective optimization of BIPV envelope design: BIPV Cladding application; and
- Sponsoring the Monica Oliphant Prize for Best Female Student Poster, awarded to Haoran Wang of UNSW for her paper Effects of Soldering Flux on the reliability of TOPCon and HJT Solar Cells
The full range of recipients have been listed on the APSRC website.
Exemplary Energy congratulates all the recipients of the APSRC 2023 awards, and wishes them all the very best in their research endeavours.
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