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Sustainable PV goes beyond recycling

Despite significant progress on material and energy efficiency in solar PV manufacturing over the last few decades, terawatt-scale manufacturing mandates further innovation and improvement along all parts of the value chain – especially on material circularity and supply chain decarbonization, according to Andreas Wade, global sustainability director at First Solar. Ensuring these objectives are met will be key to adhering to the global carbon budget for 1.5 C.

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pv magazine

07 Dec 2020

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In order to maintain the trajectory of achieving the objectives of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and limiting global warming to below 1.5 C, humanity can only emit a further 800 gigatons of CO2 globally. As the cheapest sources of new electricity generation, solar PV and wind energy have become the backbone of the transition …

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