"Photovoltaic Recycling" mandatory policy promotes installed cost

　　Author ：Iflowpower – Portable Power Station Supplier

Photovoltaic recovery is no longer a reuse of expensive materials considered 10 years ago. With the decline in photovoltaic cost, the photovoltaic recovery is morely, how to dispose of the photovoltaic product life cycle, especially how Solved heavy metal elements. A few days ago, I passed a bill in the NAO Zhongzhong in the US, announced that the state's solar recycling policy.

The Act requires final design and implementation of a comprehensive solar product recycling program, which is data-driven, and considering that the 50-year photovoltaic module life can be continued in this category. The bill requested the state government to set up a special working group, in-depth study of the termination of solar life life, and use this information to make a revision proposal to the state government existing plan to ensure that its long-term success. The Special Working Group will consist of a series of stakeholders, including industry representatives to ensure that these proposals have relevant and rationality of Washington's solar companies and customers.

With the strong support of the two parties of the Communist Party, the bill did not receive stakeholder opposition. With the use of the first batch of commercialized PV products that is about 20 years, the recovery of photovoltaic products has been received globally. PV reclamation history 2014 EU promulgated a decree, 27 Member States of the EU will carry out the recovery of photovoltaic components in the EU (referred to as WEEE).

At present, the WEEE (2002/96) decree enters the third stage, and the photovoltaic module to achieve the service life will achieve 85% of the recovery rate, and the reuse rate is 80%. All Wheeliebin logo designed by the WEEE in Europe will not enter the EU market. In addition, the EU has established photovoltaic recovery organizations from green power generation to waste management (PVCYCLE).

It is understood that more than half of the organizations are in our company. Pvcycle conducts the recovery of scrap components based on different national policies, and members within the organization only need to pay the contribution and pay the solution. In January this year, my country's green supply chain Federation is established, and China's photovoltaic green technology and the cooperative communication platform for my country's photovoltaic technology and use in the full life cycle of photovoltaic industry materials, processing, use promotion, scrap-resolved.

The Association of the Alliance my country's photovoltaic special committee has never been a matter of international photovoltaic recycling organization Pvcycle. Added installed costs? Since the use of photovoltaic entering commercialization, due to small starting scale, the recovery after the end of their life cycle has not been included in the use, commercial investment has never considered the cost of waste resolution. Although many photovoltaic power plants have been updated, replaced, their alternative photovoltaic components have entered the second-hand market, or was discarded because of small scale.

In 2015, the material recovery of scrapped components (such as metal silicon, silver) is meaningful, but with the educational development of silicon materials, component recovery has become increasingly cost-effective investment. European Established Photovoltaic Components Recycling Factory must also maintain operation with relevant organizations and associations. When more and more photovoltaic power plants are about to be scrapped, the recovery of photovoltaic components must become a cost-effective thing.

So, who will pay these future costs? According to PVCYCLE, the recycling of the scrap components, members within the PVCYCLE organization only need to pay the conference fee and pay the solution. According to the principle of waste of existing electronic appliances, this cost is borne by the processor. my country's relevant regulations clearly levy abandoned electronics resolved funds from electrical electronic products, imported electrical electronic products consignee or their agents should perform fund payment obligations in accordance with the provisions of this method.

It can be expected that the recovery cost of the abandoned photovoltaic assembly will inevitably be borne by the photovoltaic component processor. And this means that the future photovoltaic components will inevitably include new abandoned recovery costs, and finally by consumers.