Toshiba and TRE challenges recycling solar waste into secondary applications

Toshiba and TRE challenges recycling solar waste into secondary applications

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), in collaboration with its subsidiaries and TRE Holdings Corporation, has launched a project to demonstrate the effectiveness of panel reuse. Repurposing decommissioned solar panels may become a practical solution to the growing problem of solar waste. At TRE’s Mibu facility in Tochigi Prefecture, a self-consumption solar power system will incorporate both new and reused panels. Schedu…

The municipality wants to install around 800 to 1000 used solar panels in the coming two years for people who cannot afford the rising energy costs. These solar panels should last at least 15 years. 1.5 million euros is being set aside for the project. The solar panels used for this should last at least fifteen years. Many of these panels will still be disposed of because new solar panels generate more energy. The municipality wants to reuse the…