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Engineering With Rosie: Youtube April 2022

Currently, most of the world's heating comes from fossil fuels and traditional biomass. Modern renewable heat consumption supplies only slightly over 10% of the world's heat, and isn't increasing fast enough to keep up with global decarbonisation targets. 

In this video, Engineering With Rosie takes a rooftop tour of Sunovates domestic rooftop trial. Demonstrating solar panel cooling and efficiency.

Just Have a Think: Youtube April 2022

Solar photovoltaic panels provide electricity for homes, businesses and utility scale grid providers. Ironically though, the hotter they get in direct sunshine, the less effective they are at producing power. So, what if we could harvest the heat, remove it from the panel, and do something useful with it? 'Killing two birds with one stone', if you like. Well...it looks like we've just worked out how to do exactly that.

Change Makers: Podcast March 2022

Our co-founders Cesira Leigh and Glen Ryan enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Louise-Marlena Tarrier from Carbon Positive about their Sunovate hybrid solar PVT panels and system solutions.
Hit the link below to hear the story behind the technology and the co-founders.

Fifth Estate Article: Sunovate April 2021

WA startup Sunovate is blowing air into the emerging PV-thermal market. A Western Australian-developed technology that can keep solar panels cool to optimise generation efficiency and capture the excess heat for other uses is on track for deployment in Europe.

CRC Race for 2030 - Partnership

The RACE for 2030 CRC is an unprecedented research partnership to support a customer-centered clean energy transition in Australia. The challenge is exciting and urgent and Sunovate is excited to be named as a partner in the 3 year federally funded project.

20kW Sunovate System in Production

Feb 2020: The 20kW, 20 panel system renders. Options include battery, heat pump and thermal storage. The system has been designed to accommodate many transport options from complete containerized flat-pack through to being trucked to site fully complete and commissioned.

Celebrating First Commercial Demo Project

PV Magazine articulates results of the first install of the new Sunovate commercial panels; How to get to 50% solar panel conversion efficiency?

Sunovate Awarded #SET100 by WEC

The German Energy Agency (DENA) and the World Energy Council have selected the 2019 #SET100 list. This list celebrates innovation, tenacity and companies who are revolutionizing the world. Sunovate are excited to be nominated in this high calibre group.