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At 5 GW per year, solar recycling goes industrial in Georgia
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Photo: SolarcycleSOLARCYCLE has started recycling solar panels at a massive new facility in Cedartown, Georgia, signaling that solar recycling in the US is finally moving from pilot projects to industrial scale.
The 255,000-square-foot plant is now processing thousands of end-of-life solar panels each week using the company’s proprietary next-gen recycling technology.
At full capacity, SOLARCYCLE says the site can handle up to 5 gigawatts’ worth of solar panels annually.
The recycling facility sits next to the site of SOLARCYCLE’s planned solar glass manufacturing plant, which is designed to turn recovered material back into new, domestically made solar glass.
The agency forecasts that around 70 GW of new solar capacity will come online in 2026 and 2027, boosting total US operating solar capacity by roughly 49% compared with the end of 2025.