Waste/Recycling/Environmental - Sheridan, WY, US
End-of-life (EOL) solar panels present complicated recycling, environmental, and logistical challenges. There are numerous opportunities to solve these challenges through creative solutions.Solar Panel Art Collective Endeavor - SPACEThrough SPACE, artists utilize end-of-life (EOL) solar panels as a medium to be sold as artwork and functional outdoor decor. The EOL solar panels allow artists to showcase their work on a unique medium. They can be presented in galleries, displayed in a home or business, or outdoors as eye-catching pieces, including murals. The endeavor promotes sustainability awareness, youth and adult arts education, new community narratives, and entrepreneurship in the arts.To scale the use of panels as artistic medium, a custom canvas is being developed to stretch across EOL panel glass. The canvas uses match pole magnets to cover the glass front, exposing only the frame. A network of artists and art galleries will utilize open calls for art to distribute the original artwork nationally and internationally.CircuSolarThe platform provides developers, manufacturers, and nonprofits a marketplace for second-life panels. Panels due to come offline in the next six months to twenty-five years are searchable by quantity, type, geographical location, and availability. To monitor the lifecycle of installed solar panels, data from new commercial solar developments is collected. All developments are mapped with appropriate specifications of installed panels and quantities. Each developed site has an estimated date of decommissioning based on life expectancy. The unique aspect of the platform is the planned distribution of donated second-life panels to organizations that will install them in underserved communities around the U.S. This will allow developers to receive tax benefits from the donations and low-income and other deserving projects to receive the donated panels.
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