20.500.12556/DiRROS-23639 End-of-life of renewable energy technologies in urban environments. A state-of-the-art on installation trends, materials, and best practices in the EU The European Commission is promoting the production of thermal energy and electricity from renewable sources, coupled with storage systems, to decarbonize the built environment. However, these technologies use prevalently virgin raw materials, and end-of-life (EoL) circular frameworks are still difficult to be implemented due to technical, regulatory, and market barriers. This paper aims to present a state-of-the-art on the trends in installation, materials, EoL strategies, and companies active in renewable energy systems recycling. Solar, wind, and geothermal sources are examples of technologies easily incorporated into cities. The purpose is to provide information to stakeholders that should design technical solutions according to circularity criteria. The information, from both scientific and grey literature, showed that solar technologies represent the most widespread type of systems, with a considerable number of best practices and companies specialized in recycling. Wind technology follows in installation trends and activity of reuse-oriented companies. Geothermal, on the other hand, offers a reduced number of reference examples. Furthermore, this review provides an overview of the installation and potential EoL scenarios of electrical and thermal energy storage systems, highlighting significant differences in the implementation of circularity strategies. The study closes with considerations and suggestions for practical applications. circular economy end-of-life solar energy wind energy geothermal energy built environment krožno gospodarstvo konec življenjske dobe sončna energija vetrna energija geotermalna energija grajeno okolje true false true Elsevier Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik © 2025 The Author(s) Neznano 2025-09-18 08:14:53 2025-09-18 08:29:31 2025-10-24 03:54:43 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 1-20 [article no.] 104564 Vol. 82 Oct. 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-09-12 620.1/.2 2213-1396 10.1016/j.seta.2025.104564 248814595 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2025.104564 0 cc5d3b1e-9456-11f0-9bb7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=34985 RAZ_De_Simone_Marilena_2025.pdf RAZ_De_Simone_Marilena_2025.pdf 1 574D4744004F8E810F947E05F958CC95 8d5b00ff13f9019185bc48ec3f5cec5cd3ff59e99e4aac4e2a9a531c9146d282 cf5b163f-9458-11f0-9bb7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=34986 Zavod za gradbeništvo Slovenije 0 0 0