8 years of experience under WEEE regulation across Europe – Photovoltaic panels versus EEE : An opportunity to make an assessment

PV CYCLE presents its assessment of the WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU During the past eight years, PV CYCLE, as the first voluntary collective take-back system (2007-2013) and the first and only collective take-back system fully dedicated to photovoltaic panels with WEEE compliance services across multiple countries in the European Union, has observed that photovoltaic panels and…

Annual report 2020

Jan Clyncke CEO of PV CYCLE aisbl The year 2020 has been remarkable in many ways. The COVID-19 pandemic has undermined many sectors and has caused a change in behavior that is undeniably closer to the environment. Interest in the circular economy has grown and shall remain a major trend in the future. Evidenced by…

Study of re-used PV modules

«RE-USE of PV modules, challenges and opportunities of the circular economy.» Renewables are set to form the backbones of our future energy system and among them, photovoltaics (PV) has rapidly become one of the most economic energy generation technology. The price of electricity generated by PV has reached levelized cost of electricity of 5-10 €c/kWh,…