Mr. Praveen Kakulte, CEO, POWERCON Group

The Renewable Energy business which fundamentally appears to be clean, also has a huge room for enhancing sustainability measures. Disposal of fibre reinforced plastics used for wind turbine rotor blades, spinners and nacelle, upon completion of its useful life are posing a challenge.

Alternate material to FRPs or devising degradability in composites is the focus area to prevent future challenges. Disposal of Solar PV panels is the biggest challenge that humans are witnessing. Putting the said pollutant to an alternate use is a secondary solution when one surrenders the competency to innovate. The true challenge is to refrain from creation of plastics or fibre glass of any form; and the answer lies in the imposition of a disciplinary framework to drive innovation & reform the technology landscape.