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Sunset Renewable Asset Management Inc. Clean50 Top Project and Triple-Bottom Line Awards.

Inspired by Indigenous teachings of stewardship, we commit to responsibility across the full life cycle of renewable energy. This includes the recycling and recovery of solar panels and wind components at end of life—so clean energy today does not become a burden on the land tomorrow.

“The land is our mother, and we must take care of her.”

Maria Campbell

Métis author

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Frequently Asked Questions

Recycling and renewables go hand in hand. But what happens to renewable energy components when they reach the end of their life span? Here are answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.

As an Indigenous company with over 15 years experience in constructing renewable energy infrastructure, we understand the importance of having a sustainable outlet for the recovery of critical minerals and natural resources. With a wide variety of renewables recycling services and reporting, as well as the capacity to serve many countries and geographies we are a recognized leader in offering cost-effective solutions to divert solar and wind waste from landfill.

Sunset Renewables implements circular economy principles by focusing on the recovery, reuse, and transformation of materials from the renewable energy sector to ensure that valuable resources remain in use rather than being discarded. Their approach is centred on mitigating the ecological footprint of renewable energy systems through several key strategies:
 
1. On-Site Mobile Recycling Technology
A primary way the company applies circular principles is through its first-of-its-kind mobile solar panel recycling technology. This innovation allows for the processing of panels directly on-site, which significantly lowers emissions and costs associated with transporting bulky waste to centralized facilities. By decentralizing the recycling process, they make the recovery of materials more economically and environmentally efficient.
 
2. Material Recovery and Value Creation
Sunset Renewables goes beyond simple waste disposal by focusing on the extraction of critical minerals and materials from solar, wind, and energy storage assets. Their circular strategy includes:
Wind Asset Deconstruction: They perform safe deconstruction and separation of wind turbine components specifically to recover materials and reduce landfill waste.
Downstream Product Development: A core objective of their applied research is to develop downstream products of value, effectively turning what was once considered a liability (waste) into a resource for industrial use.
Early Loss Management: They manage materials not just at the end of their life, but also those lost early in the project lifecycle, ensuring resource circularity at every stage.
 
3. Lifecycle Waste Management and Reclamation
The company supports the sustainable development of facilities by providing waste management across the entire project lifecycle. This includes:
Customized Reclamation Planning: They offer assessment, reporting, and reclamation services to ensure project sites are handled responsibly.
Reporting and Compliance: They provide support for reporting and compliance, which helps industry players track their environmental impact and material flows.
 
4. Collaborative Research and Innovation
To advance the circular economy on an industrial scale, Sunset Renewables collaborates with academic institutions, such as Conestoga’s SMART Centre, to design and build their recycling technologies. Their applied research strategy is dedicated to commercializing the processes required to transition the industry toward a triple bottom line—delivering strong social, environmental, and economic outcomes.

Many provincial governments have begun requiring reclamation reports for compliance in order to develop new solar and wind projects. This reclamation report is provided to the government to convey a clear plan by the developer as to what to do with the assets at early loss and at the end of the life of the project. This project compliance ensures that new solar and wind projects have an appropriate action plan for the assets when they become liabilities.

Forward thinking companies can leverage these requirements in order to gain a competitive edge for the future. That will have a low carbon cost and will help cost reduction while diverting waste from landfill, and provide a sustainable outlet for the recovery of critical minerals and natural resources. Our reporting gives tangible and measurable metrics that allow you to fully understand and communicate the full carbon lifecycle analysis to your customers, employees, and shareholders.

Proper disposal and reporting of renewable energy assets has come into effect or will soon come into effect from provincial and federal government agencies depending on the site location. This directly impacts developers from a compliance perspective and also from a positive ESG perspective. Sunset Renewable Asset Management provides site specific reclamation reports to convey a clear plan by the developer as to what to do with the assets at early loss and at the end of the life of the project.

This reclamation report requires insight into true recycling costs and their potential impacts. An industry advisor can prove invaluable to provide proper insight into these costs, and can greatly streamline your reporting efforts and ensure they are accurate and approved.

Solar panel recycling involves safely dismantling end-of-life panels to recover valuable materials like glass, aluminum, silicon, copper, and silver. Panels are first de-framed and de-wired, then mechanically and thermally processed to separate the components. These recovered materials are reused in new products, reducing landfill waste and supporting a circular clean energy economy.

Facilities

With facility locations in Alberta and Ontario, we are well positioned to provide you with the best services in the industry.

Sunset Renewables Hamilton Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

2493 Hendershot Road
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada

10 acres / 5000 sq. ft. indoor storage (Head Office)

Sunset Renewables Taber Alberta

Taber, Alberta

6002 58 Street
Taber, Alberta
Canada

2 acres / 5000 sq. ft. indoor storage (Industrial)

Sunset Renewables Brooks Alberta

Brooks, Alberta

Township Road 182A
Brooks, Alberta
Canada

382 acres / 70,000 sq. ft. indoor storage (Industrial)

Recycle Your Renewables

Whether you are planning for future decommissioning of your solar or wind assets or need to manage materials currently at their end of life, we are here to help!