PowerStack wins Gold at Australian Good Design Awards

Sydney, NSW: PowerStack has won a coveted Gold Australian Good Design Award for the 2023 event. With more than 900 entries across the awards for this year, the modular, vertical solar design succeeded in achieving not only a Good Design Award, but was given gold status in its category, ‘Product Design - Furniture and Lighting’. 
 
The awards aim to recognise and ‘showcase the very best in design and innovation to a worldwide audience’. Submissions are reviewed under three overarching criteria: ‘Good Design’, ‘Design Innovation’ and ‘Design Impact’, with the latter looking at the potential of a product or design to positively impact communities and the environment.
 
This year celebrates 65 years of the Australian Good Design Awards, with the winning recipients decided by an impressive jury, featuring representatives from innovative brands and organisations such as Apple, Mirvac, Gensler, Woods Bagot, Aurecon and The New York Times. 
 
PowerStack’s submission highlighted that the vertical solar pole system provides a sustainable, 100% off-grid energy supply for applications such as safety and architectural lighting, CCTV, IoT sensors, communications networks, and device charging. Such applications enhance public safety, security and connectivity, and by using PowerStack, do so with minimal impact to the environment. 
 
PowerStack’s co-founding director, Nathan Giblett commented,

‘It’s fantastic to be recognised by the Australian Good Design Awards. We’re an Australian designed product with a focus on sustainable infrastructure - that benefits communities and the environment, so winning this feels like the culmination of the hard work we’ve put in over the last few years.’

The solar poles enable end users to reduce carbon emissions through 100% off-grid power production, and use a unique concrete-free foundation. This system can be installed by a two person team in under an hour with no heavy machinery, minimising impact to the environment and surrounding communities. Recent projects have seen PowerStack provide remote power for applications such as bushfire monitoring and ‘turtle friendly’ marina lighting, with an application for an remote emergency help point recently launched. 
 
PowerStack, along with other winning submissions was celebrated at an award ceremony in Melbourne on Friday 8th September. 
  
About PowerStack
 
PowerStack is a leading provider of high quality, off-grid vertical solar solutions. The modular, glassless solar poles capture sun in all directions for maximised sun harvest, and can be deployed almost anywhere the sun shines. Integrating with world leading brands, PowerStack provides powerful, 100% off-grid energy supply for safety, security and communications devices. 
 
Their goal is to deliver reliable green energy products and to create solutions that provide safer, greener, more secure and more connected spaces for all.

Distributed by GSA Systems Australia-wide, PowerStack solar poles support off-grid security solutions by producing reliable, off-grid power for security cameras, alarms, sirens and more.  Read more about PowerStack here. 
 
About Good Design Awards Australia
 
The Australian Good Design Awards showcase the very best in design and innovation to a worldwide audience. Originally established in 1958 under the banner of the Industrial Design Council of Australia, the Awards have been setting the international standard for good design for more than six decades.

Recognised by the World Design Organization (WDO) as Australia’s peak international design endorsement program, the Awards have a proud legacy of recognising, rewarding and celebrating the projects, people and brands behind great design.  
See more at: https://good-design.org/good-design-awards/