A bee pollinates native Kentucky wildflowers at the E.W. Brown Solar Farm. Photo by Chad Alkire
On October 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) hosted a webinar to provide an update on SETO’s Photovoltaics (PV) End-of-Life (EOL) Action Plan, which outlines a five-year strategy to establish safe, responsible, and economic solar PV EOL practices. While PV has a net positive environmental impact over a system’s life span, there are opportunities to increase environmental benefits throughout its life cycle, from design to decommission. This webinar featured presentations from several SETO-funded projects and updates from other DOE offices and federal agencies, providing an update on efforts to improve PV’s environmental impact since the release of the PV EOL Action Plan (March 2022).
Speakers and Slides
SETO Presenters (Download Slides)
- Lenny Tinker
- Susan Huang
- Noreen Gentry (Contractor)
Awardees (Download Slides)
- David Fenning (University of California San Diego)
- Silvana Ovaitt (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- Gerald Feldewerth (SOLARCYCLE)
- Cara Libby (Electric Power Research Institute)
Government Offices and Agencies (Download Slides)
- Allison Robinson Turner (DOE Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office)
- Robert Sozanski (DOE Office of Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains)
- Phoebe O’Connor (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
