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US’ first vertically integrated solar factory starts production to power 1.3M homes (interestingengineering.com)
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Qcells has begun manufacturing solar cells at its new facility in Cartersville, Georgia, bringing the company closer to operating what it says is the United States’ first and only fully vertically integrated solar manufacturing factory.

The company announced that the plant is now producing solar cells and expects all production lines to reach full capacity by the third quarter of 2026. Once fully operational, the facility will manufacture ingots, wafers, cells, and solar modules under one roof.

The start of cell production marks a significant milestone for domestic solar manufacturing, as most solar panels installed in the US still rely on imported components. Qcells said the Cartersville site will become the largest operating solar cell factory in US history...

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago

It will or it can power 1.3M homes? Here in the Netherlands we had similar news about a new windmill park. To get local support they claimed it could power 150.000 homes. It was built. All it powered was a Google data center.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago

And they'll be twice the cost of Chinese panels and they will lobby for tariffs so they can charge triple. And nobody will solar.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I really hope they succeed, but this is a Korean company benefitting from a pyramid of Biden-era incentives, that could disappear at random in today’s political chaos

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago

Shhhh! The dogegoblins will hear you

[–] PotatoPie@lemmy.zip 10 points 23 hours ago

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