Kardinia’s printed solar panels installed for Coldplay’s Stanford Stadium shows
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Newcastle-based printed solar technology company Kardinia Energy has received AUD 2.15 million ($1.5 million) in funding from the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Program (IGP) to help accelerate the scale-up of its flexible printed solar technology.
The Scaling Australian-Made Printed Solar for Renewable Energy Growth project will transition the technology from university proof-of-concept to pilot-scale production.
Based at the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, about 150 kilometers north of Sydney, Kardinia made headlines in 2025 for in collaboration with rock bank Coldplay when it deployed mobile solar energy at a live concert venue.
The IGP funds will help increase production throughput and module efficiency, enabling early market demonstrations and customer validation.
Produced using reel-to-reel printing techniques on recyclable PET plastic, Kardinia’s production cost target is under $10 per square meter and weighing less than 0.3kg per m2.
Kardinia estimates that there is more than 4 billion square meters of low-weight industrial roof space worldwide that cannot support the weight of traditional solar panels, which in Australia represents 2.4 GW of energy that could be generated by installed printed solar.
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