Closing the Circularity Loop: Research and Innovation Challenges for PV Recycling

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Recording of Thursday, December 12, 2024 | Sustainable Solar Europe 2024 | Language: English | Duration: 82:44 .

Closing the Circularity Loop: Research and Innovation Challenges for PV Recycling

PV's crucial role in the energy transition demands vast energy and materials, making resource efficiency essential. A strong circularity strategy, encompassing reuse, repair, and material recovery from end-of-life systems, is vital for sustainability. Effectively recovering and valorising material from end-of-life PV is key to closing the circularity loop, with R&I having a central role to play to solve recycling challenges.

In this session, four EU-funded R&I projects will outline how they are tackling these challenges, focusing on the recovery of high purity silicon, recycling of polymers, and recovery of silver from end-of-life PV panels.

Moderator

Claire Morin
Junior Project Officer
SolarPower Europe

Speaker

Alejandra Galarza
Research Engineer LCA and Recyclability
IPVF

Cumar Luxsacumar Sivakanesar
President
SiPow

Pietrogiovanni Cerchier
CEO
9-Tech

Rune Søndenå
Senior Researcher
Institute for Energy Technology