Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2021

DOI

10.3390/su131910594

Publication Title

Sustainability

Volume

13

Issue

19

Pages

10594 (1-9 pp.)

Abstract

Energy demand continues to grow with the world’s burgeoning population. Meeting energy needs through renewable sources allows for market growth with limited environmental impact, but sourcing constraints can limit production, creating industrial and environmental problems. The exploitation of end-of-use and end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) options that are traditionally treated as waste offers a valuable opportunity to support renewable energy market growth with fewer sourcing constraints and minimal environmental impacts, but this circular investment has not yet been broadly implemented, nor is broad guidance widely available to aid its implementation. From a business perspective, this paper discusses the technical issues, assesses the anticipated market growth issues, and proposes a combination of circular economy, industrial ecology, and process integration principles to contribute a theoretically supported, practical framework to improve the management of end-of-use/life PV products and support renewable energy market growth.

Comments

Copyright: © 2021 by the author.

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/)

ORCID

0000-0003-0117-788X (Marsillac)

Original Publication Citation

Marsillac, E. (2021). Supporting renewable energy market growth through the circular integration of end-of-use and end-of-life photovoltaics. Sustainability13(19), Article 10594. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910594

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