Andrew Blakers is Professor of Engineering at the Australian National University. He was joint winner of the global engineering Queen Elizabeth Prize in 2023 for PERC technology, which comprises half of all solar panels ever made and is mitigating 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions through displacement of coal. Prof Blakers engages in analysis of 100% renewable energy systems supported by storage for which he was joint winner of the 2018 Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. His team developed a global atlas of a million off-river pumped hydro energy storage sites which is influential in the renewable energy storage industry.

Professor Blakers is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at ANU, an externally funded group of 40 people working on solar energy technologies. The Centre is recognised as one of the world's best solar energy groups. Its work spans the range from basic R&D to commercialisation. Origin Energy is constructing a $35M pilot plant for Silver(tm) solar cells (invented by Professor Blakers and a colleague), while a 300 square metre demonstration CHAPS solar concentrator system is nearing completion. Professor Blakers is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence and is leading a bid for a Solar Energy CRC