Australia’s Solar Waves Could Change Utility-Scale Solar Forever

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Our prime minister here in Australia says that we should be manufacturing electric cars here. I don't think the guy really understands how it works though. You need an entire supply chain.

[00:00:09]You can't just decide to ah we're going to make cars here. It's there's a lot more going on than that. But when it comes to utility scale solar, well, we can do that. And in fact, we can do it quite well. But unfortunately, there just isn't much awareness about what companies are doing these days. I already did one video on this company, but I think more needs to be seen. Hello my friends, welcome to the channel. I'm Sam Evans. Great to have you with us.

[00:00:37]Australia's solar waves, that's the name of the company, could change utility scale solar forever. What if the entire solar industry has been thinking about utility scale solar the wrong way? Now, I personally think that solar will be the number one source of electricity in the world by 2032, and experts are saying the same thing.

[00:00:57]What if solar farms should never have been built on site in the first place?

[00:01:02]So, right now, solar farms are being built on site. However, one Australian company has developed a completely new approach that could dramatically reduce the cost of solar deployment, battery storage, maintenance, land usage, and even water consumption. And all at the same time, guys, today we're going to have a look at one of the most ambitious solar technologies that I've seen in years.

[00:01:28]An Australian company called Green Energy Systems. I'll put a link in the description below if you want to. I've had quite a few people contact me about them, but that link will enable you to get in contact with them yourself. They say that they have reinvented utility scale solar from first principles. And honestly, this is not just some kind of solar mounting system. This is something very different. Their technology is called solar waves. And the idea behind it is surprisingly simple. Stop building solar farms like construction projects and start manufacturing them like appliances.

[00:02:06]Because right now, traditional solar farms are incredibly inefficient.

[00:02:11]Think about how they're normally built.

[00:02:13]You have individual PV panels. They separate steel support, then separate steel support frames. Then thousands of bolts, clamps, brackets, hinges, and fasteners. Then kilometers of manual cabling were connected by hand using MC4 connectors. Now, it's actually similar with home solar solar. A lot of what you're paying for is actually not the solar panels themselves, but the actual components to mount it to your roof. On site though, there are trenches and cable trays running back to a central battery system. Then there's massive shipping container storage batteries sitting on concrete slabs surrounded by fencing, HVAC cooling systems, and fire suppression equipment. That's basically what they look like. In other words, these separate systems, power generation, structural support, and energy storage are all disconnected from each other. They're all installed individually. They're all labor intensive. They're all well more expensive than they should be. On the Electric Viking website, I'll put a link in the description below. We have more articles about electric cars and battery technology than any other website that I'm aware of in the world. So check that out. Link is in the description and there you'll find our videos and analysis and articles about everything going on in the EV world.

[00:03:50]Green Energy Systems looked at this entire process and they've asked basically one question. Why aren't all these systems combined into one integrated product? That thinking led to solar waves. Instead of mounting solar panels onto a separate steel frame, the PV panels themselves become part of the structure. The panels interlock together into one continuous engineered assembly.

[00:04:17]That means fewer parts, less material, far less labor, and a dramatically stronger structure. The company says the system becomes lighter and stronger at the same time because the entire array acts as one structural unit rather than thousands of separate components.

[00:04:38]And there's another major advantage because the panels are locked together continuously. The entire solar array becomes waterproof.

[00:04:48]That's really good if you have say use it as something like a giant roof for example. So what that does is it turns the solar array into a giant roof. Now this creates a completely new opportunity. Water harvesting.

[00:05:03]And honestly I I just can't understand why we aren't doing doing this already.

[00:05:07]How often do you see solar roofs with water tanks next to them? Basically never. Every drop of rain falling on the array can now be collected and reused.

[00:05:16]And this is where things actually get well super interesting. One of the highest hidden costs in utility scale solar is cleaning, dust, dirt, bird droppings, pollen. These all reduce panel efficiency dramatically over time.

[00:05:34]Guys, I do consultations sometimes with people and sometimes all they need to do is clean their solar panels because they've lost like literally 40% of their efficiency because their solar panels are dirty. I got a quote today for $900 to clean my solar panels. $900. That's a real quote. I recommend get on your roof and clean them yourself. But if you've got a commercial solar farm, well, that's going to cost a lot of money. So, many solar farms only clean their panels every few months because cleaning is extremely expensive. That means most arrays operate well below peak output for long periods of time. Green Energy Systems believes they've solved this problem with what they call a fully automated self-cleing system. Honestly, I think this should be rolled out for all home solar systems as well. using captured rain water stored within the system itself. The water is recycled, filtered, and reused continuously.

[00:06:39]Meaning the panels can be potentially cleaned every single week instead of once every few months. And obviously, if you clean them every single week, your efficiency is going to be great all the time. Plus, less likely you're going to have bird poo and things like that stick to them, become really hard to get off, which can also dam damage the laminate.

[00:06:58]The company says this could reduce maintenance costs by up to 90% while keeping panel output consistently high over the entire life of the solar farm.

[00:07:09]Now, here's where the concept becomes even more disruptive, the batteries.

[00:07:14]Instead of placing batteries in giant centralized shipping containers, Green Energy Systems wants to distribute the batteries throughout the array itself.

[00:07:23]They call it Bob B. battery on board.

[00:07:28]The batteries are integrated directly inside the structural bottom beam of the solar wave system. Think about what this eliminates. No massive battery container compounds, no concrete slabs, no HVAC cooling systems, no huge fire suppression installations, no security fencing around centralized battery facilities, and far less DC cabling running across the site. The batteries sit directly beside the solar generation source itself, distributed evenly throughout the array. The company believes that this architecture could reduce battery storage costs by at about 35% compared with conventional battery energy systems.

[00:08:16]And from an engineering perspective, it does actually make a lot of sense. But solar waves isn't only about lowering costs. There's actually a bit more to this story, too. It's about changing where solar can be deployed. Because once you create a foldout factorybuilt solar appliance, you can deploy it almost anywhere. On land, on water, over irrigation canals, over crops, over commercial car parks, even in remote EV charging locations. This would be perfect for an EV charging setup. This is where solar waves could become a genuine game changer. Over irrigation canals, for example, the system generates electricity while simultaneously reducing water evaporation and suppressing aquatic weed growth.

[00:09:05]And one piece of infrastructure performs multiple functions at once. Power generation, water conservation, environmental management, land preservation. That's a fundamentally different way of thinking about solar.

[00:09:22]Instead of consuming land, it enhances the land or infrastructure underneath it. The company even says that different roof combinations can be used depending on the application. Standard PV panels, translucent panels, clear polycarbonate sections. Meanwhile, now this means the system can control sunlight, shade, and environmental conditions beneath the structure. Now whether all these claims ultimately prove commercially scalable to be honest does remain to be seen but one thing is absolutely clear. This is not incremental innovation.

[00:10:03]This is an attempt to completely rethink utility scale solar deployment from the ground up. And honestly that's exactly what the industry might need. I mean installation costs are just too high.

[00:10:17]And we've been looking at solar the same way for so long. Something needs to change because the next big breakthrough in renewable energy may not come from making solar panels slightly more efficient. You make the one 1% more efficient, even 2%. It's not really a breakthrough.

[00:10:33]The next breakthrough may come from completely reinventing how solar is manufactured, deployed, maintained, and integrated into the world around us. And if green energy systems can successfully commercialize solar waves, Australia may have developed one of the most disruptive solar deployment technologies in the world. Guys, let me know what you think in the comment section below.

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