Silicon Ranch is partnering with recycling platform SolarCycle to course of end-of-life photo voltaic panels from Silicon Ranch tasks by means of SolarCycle’s superior recycling platform. SolarCycle claims that its method to photo voltaic module recycling recovers roughly 95% of the photo voltaic panel’s worth. Silicon Ranch is SolarCycle’s first utility-scale accomplice.
This partnership will assist gasoline the rising U.S. photo voltaic manufacturing trade with a home provide of recycled supplies important to the manufacturing of recent photo voltaic panels, together with glass, silicon, and useful metals corresponding to silver, copper, and aluminum. Latest research by the NREL discovered that by 2040, for sure supplies, recycling can meet 25-30% of home photo voltaic manufacturing wants in the USA.
“Because the long-term proprietor of each undertaking in our portfolio, we at Silicon Ranch are deeply dedicated to {our relationships} and obligations within the communities we serve. These obligations embody end-of-life tools administration,” mentioned Reagan Farr, Silicon Ranch President and CEO. “Embracing this chance to pioneer recycling and re-use processes at scale with SolarCycle is a major step in assembly these obligations. This partnership helps our commitments to advance home photo voltaic manufacturing, a round photo voltaic financial system, and financial growth alternatives in communities throughout the nation. We encourage others within the trade to affix us on this significant endeavor.”
“SolarCycle’s crew is taking what we realized within the photo voltaic, sustainability, and recycling industries and making use of it to our tech-driven recycling options. We all know that scale issues so as to have the ability to drive prices down and produce high quality up,” mentioned Suvi Sharma, CEO and Co-Founding father of SolarCycle. “We’re thrilled that our partnership with Silicon Ranch–an revolutionary chief in bringing photo voltaic to scale sustainably and responsibly–will assist us make photo voltaic throughout America totally sustainable.”
SolarCycle is at the moment the one devoted technology-based recycling firm for the photo voltaic trade. The corporate focuses on recycling photo voltaic panels to acquire the utmost quantity of supplies to return into the provision chain, and assist to construct a round financial system for photo voltaic. Launched earlier this yr, the corporate is establishing a photo voltaic panel recycling middle, which is able to open in This autumn.
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