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

05/01/2025 44 min Episodio 168
PV Recycling with Livia Keene and Joanne Brasch of California Product Stewardship Council

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

Episode Synopsis

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

[email protected]

 

Learn more at www.solarSEAN.com and be sure to get NABCEP certified by taking Sean’s classes at www.heatspring.com/sean 























More episodes of the podcast Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast