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DOE Develops 5-Year Plan to Establish Safe Disposal of End-of-Life Solar PV Materials

  • March 21, 2022

The U.S. Department of Energy has released an action plan for the safe and responsible disposal of solar photovoltaic end-of-life (EOL) materials. Activities outlined in the plan will reduce the environmental impact of solar energy.

Although 95% of PV modules are recyclable, the current economics of EOL processing are not conducive to recycling. The cost of recycling PV modules is significantly higher than landfill fees. Establishing safe, responsible and economical EOL practices will support greater deployment of solar energy.

According to a recent U.S. Department of Energy assessment of the solar PV supply chain, recycling should become standard practice to facilitate domestic material supply. Actions taken now will improve the possibility of developing enabling technologies to handle PV EOL volumes safely, responsibly and economically, leading to greater deployment and safe and socially responsible supply chains.

Under the strategy developed today, the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) plans to address PV EOL through stakeholder outreach, data collection, research, and analysis. SETO aims to better understand the status of EOL by developing a database that tracks the material, quantity, age, location, cause of EOL and EOL treatment of modules. This is determined through a five-year plan.
In addition, SETO will support hardware research to reduce the environmental impact of EOL and more than halve module recycling costs by 2030.

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