Countries around the world are promoting renewable energy, for which solar power accounts for over half of green electricity. However, solar panels have a service life of less than 20 years, and can ...

Waste from end-of-life solar panels and other solar-related equipment provides an opportunity to recover valuable materials, along with other benefits. The International Renewable Energy Agency said ...

Workers push damaged solar pannels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Arizona on December 6, 2023. As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable ...

Comstock Inc., headquartered in Virginia City, Nevada, has announced that, immediately following its public equity offering Aug. 15, it placed all purchase orders and paid deposits totaling $5.1 ...

As solar and wind power have taken off around the world, so has the backlash against the waste they generate when the equipment has to be retired. Stories about wind turbine graveyards and solar ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Solar panels can last several decades, but these panels don’t last forever. Throwing away solar panels at the end of their use would be detrimental to the environment, which serves to ...

In 2019, the nonprofit Michigan Energy Options had just put up a solar farm. “We purposely located our East Lansing Community Solar Park on a former municipal dump,” said Executive Director John Kinch ...

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Washington, has set a goal for solar to provide 30 percent of U.S. electricity generation by 2030. For that to happen, the U.S. will need to add nearly ...

Comstock Inc. LODE and its subsidiary, Comstock Metals Corporation, have announced that they have secured a new commercial customer, thus generating more than $0.15 million in revenues from ...

SALISBURY, N.C. — There are tens of millions of solar panels installed in the Carolinas and while each lasts about 20-30 years, eventually, they’ll all get decommissioned or replaced. If they all end ...