End-of-life… Recovery… Orphaned and stranded assets. | Abby Hopper
End-of-life… Recovery… Orphaned and stranded assets. What’s up with all this traumatic language we use to describe solar near the end of its lifecycle? Well, SEIA’s new release today sets out a new vision for how we understand (and talk about) solar recycling, sustainability, and industrial circularity. Today, SEIA released “A Vision for Implementing the Circular Economy in the Solar and Storage Industry.” The circular economy is a model of resource production that decouples economic growth from resource consumption. It’s about recycling, reusing, and reinvesting our industry’s assets so that we can improve efficiency, mitigate risk, and lower costs. We know that we can recover a significant percentage of the useful material in a solar project and doing so is not only good for our environment, it can also help lower cost and strengthen U.S. supply chains. This roadmap outlines the everyday solutions for turning our vision into reality — by providing a concrete action plan to develop national standards, create demand for recovered and recycled materials, and reduce waste in landfills. Now, so much of the deployed solar in the U.S. is at the very beginning of its lifetime. About two-thirds of the solar installed in America today has been installed in the last 5 years and solar panels typically have at least a 25–30-year lifespan. But, this is exactly why we need to start now. Investing in the infrastructure, standardized processes, and networks will mean that solar will truly become the regenerative energy sources that we know it can be. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCtD2eGS | 29 comments on LinkedIn
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