Forty years of silicon manufacturing experience, brought home.

Stellar PV is led by a team that helped build the global silicon manufacturing industry. We are bringing that experience back to Australia to establish midstream manufacturing capability at scale.

Who we are.

Stellar PV is an Australian advanced manufacturing company developing the country's first gigawatt-scale silicon ingot and wafer facility.

The company was established in 2023 to address a clear strategic gap. Australia produces some of the world's most important critical minerals, but captures very little of their downstream value. Stellar PV exists to change that, by anchoring the midstream of the silicon value chain in Australia.

We are supported by funding from the Australian Federal Government through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and have been granted the Australian Federal Government's Major Project Status.

Built by a global team.

Stellar PV draws on the best of Australian and international engineering, design, and architecture expertise to build a facility that meets the highest Australian standards.
Our team combines decades of operational silicon manufacturing experience from Asia, where the global industry has been built at scale, with Australian engineering and ESG capability, ensuring the facility is designed to local environmental, safety, and community standards from day one.
This combination of global expertise and Australian standards is what allows us to move from concept to construction readiness by 2028.

Leadership.

ted szpitalak,
PRINCIPAL, CHIEF SCIENTIST

Ted has spent more than four decades at the forefront of global silicon manufacturing. He was a founding member of Professor Martin Green's photovoltaic research team at UNSW in the 1980s, and went on to co-establish Suntech, JA Solar, and Sunrise Global Energy.

Ted has built and commissioned silicon manufacturing facilities across China, Taiwan, Germany, Canada, the United States, and Italy. Ted leads Stellar PV's technical strategy and process design.

Louise Hurll,
Chief executive officer

Louise leads Stellar PV's strategic direction, capital raising, and government engagement. She brings seventeen years of senior commercial experience across private equity and venture capital in Sydney and London, with deep expertise in operational leadership, financial structuring, and complex transactions.

Louise is an Australian Certified Practising Accountant and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

A team that helped build the industry.

Stellar PV's founders were members of the original UNSW photovoltaic research group led by Professor Martin Green in the 1980s. That program developed the cell efficiency technologies that defined the modern silicon industry and trained a generation of engineers who went on to lead its commercialisation. Over the following four decades, members of that team established and operated some of the largest silicon manufacturing facilities in the world, including Suntech, JA Solar, and Sunrise Global Energy. They built capacity across China, Taiwan, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Stellar PV brings that experience home, to build Australian manufacturing capability at scale.

 

Photo: Members of the original UNSW led by Prof. Martin Green (front centre). Ted Szpitalak (left, second from top)

Picture courtesy UNSW Archives.

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