recycling Archives

Avangrid partners with startup for wind turbine recycling process

Avangrid recently donated 300 pounds of decommissioned wind turbine blades to WindLoop to test recycling processes.

300 MW solar panel recycling center opens in Texas

The new facility, located in Breckenridge, Texas to minimize its carbon footprint, is equipped with technology that the company says fully extracts all materials for reuse.

Researchers extract silicon from old solar panels to build better batteries

Researchers have extracted silicon from old solar panels and converted it into a nano material used to build better batteries.

RWE wind farm receives first of Siemens Gamesa’s recyclable blades

Siemens Gamesa’s RecyclableBlades have been installed at RWE’s Kaskasi offshore wind power project in Germany.

Materials used in solar panels could be worth $2 billion a year by 2050, with the amount of decommissioned cells reaching 80 million metric tons.