A recent study has found that India will generate over 11 million tonnes of solar waste by 2047 if it does not scale up ...

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 ...

India is currently basking in a golden age of solar power. A decade-long solar surge has carried India from the bottom of the ...

“Don’t panic,” said Heather Mirletz at the Colorado School of Mines, lead author of a recent paper that challenges several assumptions about what could happen when today’s generation of solar panels ...

Millions of end-of-life solar panels are being decommissioned within the next couple of years. Researchers, start-ups, and governments are looking to create an industry for recycling solar panels, not ...

Both solar power and wind power have grown at a remarkable rate in the last decade, and as these industries grow the waste associated with them also grows. There is currently no comprehensive plan for ...

Researchers from the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say the nation’s solar panel waste problem is more pressing than previously thought ...

The fastest energy change in history is underway. New solar PV generation capacity is being deployed faster than everything else put together. The price of PV continues to fall, and PV is essentially ...

(Nanowerk News) Solar energy is good news for planet Earth – but solar panels are not as climate-friendly as they should be. Researcher Martin Bellmann is using what he calls the ‘black gold’ waste ...

When it comes to renewable energy, there are many great sources. Whether it’s solar, wind, or something else, though, we need a lot of it. Factories around the globe are rising to the challenge to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In Odessa, Texas, workers at a startup called SolarCycle unload trucks carrying ...

Broken and worn-out solar panels can be recycled, but it's not easy. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 ...