Solarcycle, a company handling end-of-life solar panels, is opening a new solar panel recycling facility in Cedartown, Georgia.
According to the company, the upcoming 5-gigawatt facility will span 255,000 square feet and will eventually have the capacity to recycle around 10 million old solar panels annually, or as much as 30% of the country’s retired solar panels by 2030.
To start, the facility will handle recycling of around 2 million solar panels per year and will scale up to meet growing demand. It will utilize Solarcycle’s process to recover up to 99% of photovoltaic materials from retired panels and is especially useful for bifacial panels. According to Solarcycle, many recycling facilities use the same technology to recycle monofacial and bifacial panels, leading to a less efficient system that doesn’t recover as many high-quality, useful materials.
In addition to opening the solar panel recycling facility, Solarcycle will operate a solar glass manufacturing facilitynext door that will use the recycled and recovered materials …