Solar

17 companies

5b.com.au
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5B

Featured

Australia

Vast amounts of solar installation will be required as the energy transition accelerates so whoever can do so the cheapest and fastest will win in the market. 5B is harnessing the known benefits of prefabrication and automation to achieve cost benefits at scale for large scale solar deployment.

Investors

Artesian, CEFC, Bandera, ARENA

amber.com.au
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Amber Electric

Featured

Australia

As the role of grids shifts to connecting intermittent supply with moveable demand, firms that can use software and data to match the two will prosper. 

Amber enables customers to access real-time wholesale energy prices. More importantly, SmartShift™ automates the charge & discharge of your battery (or EV) for maximum saving & return.

Investors

Virescent

builtrobotics.com

Built Robotics

USA

Built Robotics retrofits standard construction excavators with AI and sensors to operate autonomously — cutting the cost and timeline of site preparation for large-scale solar and infrastructure projects.

Germany

Heliatek makes organic thin-film solar cells that can be printed or laminated onto surfaces including curved facades, rooftops, and transport vehicles — enabling solar integration where glass panels are impractical.

USA

Heliogen uses AI-controlled mirror arrays to concentrate sunlight to temperatures above 1,500°C — delivering renewable heat for cement, glass, and steel production that solar panels cannot reach.

Denmark

Danish company commercialising printed organic solar cells — ultra-thin, lightweight, flexible photovoltaic films manufactured via roll-to-roll printing, for applications where conventional rigid silicon panels cannot be used.

kardiniaenergy.com

Kardinia Energy

Australia

Kardinia Energy develops lightweight, flexible, printed organic solar films for large industrial and warehouse rooftops that cannot structurally support the weight of conventional glass solar panels.

China

LEAPTING (丽天智能) is a robotics company specialising in intelligent automation for the solar photovoltaic industry, foscused on products for panel cleaning, inspection, and installation.

USA

Nextpower is the world’s leading solar tracker company — holding #1 global market share for 10 consecutive years and shipping over 150 GW of systems — now expanding into a full-platform integrated solar energy solutions provider.

Publicly Traded: Nasdaq. Code: NXT

UK

Oxford PV is the world's first commercial producer of perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar modules, achieving efficiencies that significantly exceed conventional silicon panels.

USA

PVcase is the leading solar project design platform — automating layout, terrain adaptation, cable routing, and yield simulation across the full development lifecycle, trusted by 1,800+ customers in 75+ countries for over 4 TW of annual project design.

Australia

Solcast provides high-accuracy solar irradiance forecasts and historical data globally via API — using satellite cloud-tracking updated every 5-15 minutes at 90-metre resolution, beating standard weather models by 25-50% and used by solar operators on four continents.

Australia

Solstice AI provides machine learning-powered forecasting and optimisation software for solar farms, virtual power plants, and energy traders — turning generation uncertainty into actionable intelligence.

Australia

Northern Territory solar and storage mega-project targeting a 20 GW solar farm, 42 GWh battery and 4,200 km undersea HVDC cable to Singapore — backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes after restructuring, it would be the world's largest of each technology type.

Australia

There isn't enough silver in the world manufacture all the solar we need so SunDrive have invented a process to use copper instead, which is 100x cheaper.

China

SunMan makes ultra-lightweight, glass-free solar modules at just 5kg per panel — enabling solar deployment on structures that cannot support the weight of conventional 18kg glass panels.

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Ubiquitous Energy

USA

Ubiquitous Energy developed UE Power — a transparent thin-film coating that turns windows into solar panels by harvesting invisible UV and IR light while letting visible light through, with pilot installations at Michigan State University and a partnership with Andersen Windows.