Last year’s Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC) was held 3-5 December 2024, at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Mascot, Sydney.
Exemplary Energy again supported this event through sponsoring awards and prizes:
Wal Read Memorial Award – co-funds the Best Poster Prize. Both undergraduate and postgraduate students are eligible.
Monica Oliphant Prize – $750 for Outstanding Poster for female Honours, Masters or PhD students.
John Ballinger Award – $750 for Outstanding Buildings related Extended Abstract by a Student.
This year, Exemplary is also sponsoring the end-of-conference drinks in honour of the late Prof Steven V Szokolay. See his obituary here.
Exemplary had five peer-reviewed abstracts accepted for presentation:
- Consumer protections for heat pump water heater products – presented by Dr David Ferrari
- Energy Efficiency Rating of Dwellings – Effects on ACT Sale Prices and Building Stock – presented by Trevor Lee proceedings
- Enhancing Australia’s Weather and Climate Data for Energy System and Weather-proofing Simulations – presented by Trevor Lee proceedings
- Disaggregating Daily Precipitation Data 1990 to 2022 into Half-Hourly Intervals Using LSTM Models – presented by Harrison Oates
- Characterising the Uncertainty of a Fixed COP Calculation – presented by Dr David Ferrari proceedings
Three of these presentations and abstracts are not included in the incomplete conference proceedings and those links have been added above.
The other two can be seen here.
The APSRC, convened by the Australian Photovoltaic Institute (APVI) provides a regional forum for communicating research outcomes covering all aspects of solar-related research: PV devices, concentrating solar thermal, deployment & integration, solar heating & cooling as well as solar fuels and chemistry. With the theme of information, communication and integration, the conference provides a great opportunity for young researchers and professionals to share knowledge and network with the region’s leading innovators from industry and research institutions.
The conference also provides a unique opportunity to combine the annual research reviews of Australia’s key solar research groups, representing researchers from around the Asia Pacific.
The Conference is arranged into four streams where presenters submit peer-reviewed Extended Abstracts:
- Photovoltaic Devices
- Renewable Energy Deployment & Integration
- Solar Buildings and Solar Heating & Cooling
- Concentrating Solar Thermal & Process Heat and Chemistry
This year the APSRC will be held at the University of Queensland: 2-4 December 2025.