PV Recycling with Livia Keene and Joanne Brasch of California Product Stewardship Council

In this interview we talk about reusing and recycling solar PV modules (panels) and other products.
 
Topics Covered:
Net-metering Policy
Solar Map = map to find recyclers or reuse partners
RE-X = Reusing, repairing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, or repurposing
NorCal Solar
Arco Solar Modules
1954 Bell Labs PV Module
SNEC
Crystalline Silicon
Cadmium Telluride PV Modules
Perovskites
AB2 and AB1238
EPR = Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation for Solar Panel
Permanent Recycling Program
RE-X Prize = This three-phase competition is designed to develop innovative ways to extend the lifetimes of products or parts via reusing, repairing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, or repurposing (“Re-X”) before recycling
 
California Product Stewardship Council won during the Phase 1 of the project. The prize was used as funds to create solar map
 
Reach out Keene and Brasch here:
www.calpsc.org/cpsc-solarstewardship
info@calpsc.org
 
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