{"id":63404,"date":"2024-04-18T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/18\/india-clean-energy-solar-power-plant-panel-waste-recycling-pollution-regulation"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T04:00:19","slug":"clean-energys-dirty-secret-the-trail-of-waste-left-by-indias-solar-power-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63404","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy\u2019s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India\u2019s solar power boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panels<\/p>\n<p>Under the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the semi-arid landscape. Pavagada, 100 miles north of Bengaluru in southern India, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/solarpower.guide\/solar-energy-insights\/largest-solar-plants\">world\u2019s third-largest solar power plant<\/a>, with 25m panels across a huge 50 sq km site, and a capacity of 2,050MW of clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>India has 11 similarly vast solar parks, and plans to install another 39 across 12 states by 2026, a commitment to a greener future.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/18\/india-clean-energy-solar-power-plant-panel-waste-recycling-pollution-regulation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panelsUnder the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the sem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,493,65,303,59,558,62,466,302,659,655,61,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-environment","category-ethical-and-green-living","category-global-development","category-global-economy","category-india","category-pollution","category-recycling","category-renewable-energy","category-solar-power","category-south-and-central-asia","category-waste","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63405,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63404\/revisions\/63405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}