Solar Recycling Research & Development
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity NumberPosted DateCooperative Agreements and Management and Operating Contracts at National LaboratoriesFunding MechanismClean Energy and PowerCategoryDepartment of EnergyAgency$20,000,000.00Funding Amount
Solar Recycling Research & Development
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Cooperative Agreements and Management and Operating Contracts at National LaboratoriesFunding Mechanism
Clean Energy and PowerCategory
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Available until expended
Program Description
To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of solar energy technologies.
Eligible Uses
Projects aimed at increasing the reuse and recycling of solar energy technologies, including: (i) increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from solar energy technology components and systems, including enabling technologies such as inverters; (ii) minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; (iii) advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of solar energy devices; (iv) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of solar energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, solar energy technologies; and (v) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of photovoltaic devices.