SolarCycle has begun recycling photo voltaic panels at its new facility in Cedartown, Georgia.
The 255,000-ft2 recycling facility is house to SolarCycle’s proprietary next-generation superior recycling expertise, which delivers greater than double the throughput of the corporate’s first-generation recycling lines. The brand new course of permits for 100% landfill diversion and recovers 96% of the worth from the silver, copper, aluminum, glass and different vital minerals inside a photo voltaic panel. The positioning is now processing 1000’s of photo voltaic panels per week and can proceed to scale towards a million panels yearly by the tip of 2026. At full capability, the ability can course of as much as 5 GW of photo voltaic panels annually.
“Our recycling facility in Cedartown represents a step-change in how we’re delivering end-of-life infrastructure,” mentioned Suvi Sharma, CEO and co-founder at SolarCycle. “The following section of our development is all about bringing photo voltaic recycling to industrial scale and delivering successful economics for our prospects so the trade can preserve excessive volumes of vital supplies in home provide chains as photo voltaic deployment continues to speed up.”
The recycling facility is positioned adjoining to SolarCycle’s future photo voltaic glass manufacturing plant, creating an built-in campus designed to get better and remanufacture high-value supplies from end-of-life photo voltaic panels. The corporate has already secured buyer commitments masking greater than 80% of the glass manufacturing facility’s deliberate 5-GW capability, reflecting sturdy demand for domestically manufactured photo voltaic supplies. The challenge is on observe to interrupt floor in mid-2026 and ship its first manufacturing of glass in 2028.
