Comstock has secured enough provider commitments to start commissioning the corporate’s first PV recycling facility, within the U.S. Southwest, upon receipt of essential permits.
The corporate’s Comstock Metals division is at present deploying an indication commercializing applied sciences for crushing, conditioning, extracting and recycling metallic and mineral concentrates from PV and different digital units. Comstock has obtained a storage allow and expects to obtain the remaining permits by early subsequent yr.
“A essential 2023 goal was securing revenue-generating orders for recycling decommissioned photo voltaic panels in our first facility,” says Corrado De Gasperis, Comstock’s govt chairman and CEO. “The related purchasers are prepared to start supplying decommissioned panels to our demonstration-scale facility on a steady foundation. Our know-how and renewable options present a superior various to landfilling these polluting supplies.”
“We signify a secure, zero-landfill, end-of-life answer for photo voltaic installers, landfills, and utility-scale photo voltaic builders and mills, serving all the Southwestern US and past,” provides Comstock Metals President Dr. Fortunato Villamagna.
“Giant volumes of end-of-life photovoltaic supplies are quickly changing into accessible from giant photo voltaic fields, successfully creating an environmental dilemma for our ecosystem. Comstock’s answer ensures the secure deconstruction, decontamination, separation, and productive reuse of necessary and valuable metals contained in end-of-life photovoltaic supplies.”
