Interview with Pia Alina Lange, Trina Solar – Chair of the Product Sustainability Workstream
Why is this workstream important?
The Product Sustainability Workstream is an important platform for all actors along the solar value chain to identify, assess and shape EU product requirements pertaining to environmental sustainability. This includes relevant topics such as design for circularity, use of substances, safety, carbon footprint and many more. The work of the Product Sustainability Workstream has an impact on both the way solar products – from panels to inverters – are designed, produced, used and disposed of as well as on the overall sustainability profile of our industry.
Why should companies join this workstream?
Any company active in the design, production, use or end-of-life management of solar products should join the Product Sustainability Workstream with the objective to create a versatile technical knowledge hub feeding into EU product sustainability legislation and standardisation.
What will the future of the Product Sustainability Workstream look like?
As the European Union brings forward more and more product-related legislation, from Ecodesign, to the Energy Label, to REACH, the Product Sustainability Workstream plays an important role in bundling technical knowledge relevant for designing future-proof legislative requirements, while at the same time identifying technological opportunities or red flags for product requirements that have the potential to either impede or accelerate the further development of solar – both in terms of deployment as well as of innovation.
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