PROF PAUL DASTOOR: This installation
is 200 square metres
of printed solar cells.
The first
commercial installation of printed solar
in Australia
and to the best of our knowledge
in the world.
Many of our great ideas languish
they don't make it to this stage
but because we've got this really strong partnership
between ourselves and CHEP,
we're able to take this concept
and turn it into a commercial reality.
PHILLIP AUSTIN: Our key drivers for participating in this partnership are really just three:
we love supporting Australian innovation;
like any business, we want to lower our energy costs;
and we're committed to reducing our carbon emissions.
LACHLAN FEGGANS: What excites me about being involved in sustainability is
basically creating a world that works
designing a world that works.
and in order to do that
you're not going to have all the ideas yourself
you need to go out and look for those ideas.
When I came across this printed solar panel with Professor Paul Dastoor's team
I was just blown away, I thought
if this works, this is going to be fantastic
we need to see this in operation and we need to see it at scale
and quickly.
I think the fact that CHEP are involved
here at the first commercial installation of this technology
is enormously significant.
I think what it says 
is that there are movers and shakers
in the Australian industrial scene
that are willing to back new innovation, new technology.
The interesting thing about this is
it's a really humble and unassuming technology
and it's actually much like a pallet
a pallet is very humble, but it's ubiquitous
if people didn't have pallets, they would realise very quickly the importance of pallets.
This technology is just like that
it's humble, it's unassuming 
but it's doing work that's so important for the world.
Many people might ask 'why don't we see more of these technologies right there, right now?'
well because it's really bloody hard
to take it from small scale to large scale.
It takes years and it takes
the ability to produce
large scale demonstrations like this
to make that transition
and so it takes
brave and innovative companies to partner with universities
to help take that step.
AUSTIN: CHEP sees benefit in supporting new innovation 
fundamentally because it's in our DNA
it's the way you make business better
but I think any business that wants to 
grow, to innovate, to disrupt
has to be seeking good ideas 
and a lot of those will come from the university sector.
FEGGANS: One of the things that I've come to know about the university team is
they're just the most inspirational problem-solvers
there's nothing that they don't seem to be able to solve
it's just this incubator of good ideas
and of course you just want to be involved in that
and they're really targeting some of the biggest problems the world's facing
we need more renewable energy,
we need it at a low cost
and we need it quickly
that's what this technology has the potential to deliver
so, you know, it's exciting to see it happen
and I just want to see more and more of it.
DASTOOR: It's so important and so exciting
and I think it shows that actions here on the ground are occuring
to try and tackle this energy crisis that we're in.
AUSTIN: Look this really goes back to our roots
we love being involved with the University of Newcastle
as the university continues to innovate and increase the yield and lengthen the life,
I can see this continuing to grow in terms of its impact.
