PV Sustainability
The goal of Task 12 is to foster international collaboration and knowledge creation in PV environmental sustainability and safety, in order to grow PV as a major contributor to the worlds global energy supply and emission reductions.
Australian Lead and Operating Agent
Jose Bilbao is a Lecturer at UNSW, School of PV and Renewable Energy Engineering.
Jose is the Deputy Operating Agent (OA) and the Australian Representative for IEA/PVPS Task 12 – PV Sustainability. Task 12 meets bi-annually with more than 20 representatives from all over the world. As the Australian representative, Jose coordinate local efforts and activities in PV sustainability with a growing network of researchers and companies interested in this area. Jose has been involved in Task 12 activities since 2017.
Jose has more than 15 years of combined industry and academic experience. He’s an expert on the electrical and thermal modelling of photovoltaic (PV) modules and photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) modules, with particular interest in the performance modelling, degradation, recycling, and life cycle assessment of PV modules and systems.
Australian Contributors
Marina Lunardi is an expert in the Life Cycle Assessment methodology and recycling processes of PV modules. She finished her PhD at UNSW in March 2019 and has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at UNSW since then. She contributes to IEA-PVPS Task 12 with an innovative view on sustainable processes for recycling PV modules.
Dr Rong Deng completed bachelor and PhD in Photovoltaic Engineering from the University of New South Wales. She completed her PhD thesis on “End-of-life Recycling of Silicon Photovoltaics Modules: Towards A Circular Economy”, and since then, has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics, UNSW. She iscurrently leading all PV end-of-life andrecycling research activities within ACAP. Rong is an Australian Representative on IEA PVPS Task 12 and directoron the APVI board.Recently, she has been listed on Forbes 30 under 30Asia Class of 2022 in Science and Healthcare category.
Chief Operating officer of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics; Advisor to the Indian National Centre for Photovoltaics Research and Education; an Editor for the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics; and a Senior Lecturer at the UNSW School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering. He was the Head of the School from 2003 until 2013.
Richard supports the Australian Representative for Task 12: PV Environmental Health & Safety, occasionally standing in for meetings.
His current research activities are life cycle assessment of photovoltaics technologies and photovoltaics recycling. He has supervised the projects of over 200 students, including for the UNSWERV project, educating through practice while bringing light and power to remote villages in Vanuatu.