The latest data from the National Energy Administration shows that the country’s total installed wind power and photovoltaic capacity will exceed 1 billion kilowatts in 2023. Its dominant position in newly installed power capacity has been further consolidated. At the same time, the latest data from the China Material Recycling Association shows that my country will recycle more than 100,000 photovoltaic modules in 2023; decommissioned wind power will recycle more than 50,000 tons of metal and other resources. Recycling of decommissioned wind power and photovoltaics presents a new trend of scale.

Data shows that in 2030, my country will retire more than 30,000 typhoon units, resulting in more than 3 million tons of solid waste; the cumulative amount of photovoltaic modules retired will reach 1 million tons.

Among retired photovoltaic modules, aluminum, glass, and crystalline silicon recycled structures account for more than 90%.

How to recycle these resources is a question that both companies and governments are thinking about. The process of dismantling scrapped equipment through technical means and turning it back into raw materials is resource regeneration; wind and solar equipment is more importantly resource utilization, and the decommissioned wind and solar equipment is utilized through resource regeneration.

The president of the China Renewable Resources Recycling Association said: In the future, we will accelerate the construction of a recycling system for decommissioned wind and solar equipment renewable resources. First, we will promote the implementation of the extended producer responsibility system, standardize recycling, promote high-value utilization, and achieve harmless disposal; secondly, we will accelerate the establishment of A coordinated regional recycling system will promote the construction and transformation of regional new energy industry renewable resource recycling bases and create demonstration projects for key nodes.