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US Vice President Visits Hanwha Q Cells Solar Panel Plant in Georgia

Written: 2023-04-07 10:25:05Updated: 2023-04-07 10:50:12

US Vice President Visits Hanwha Q Cells Solar Panel Plant in Georgia

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris paid a visit to the Hanhwa Q Cells plant outside Atlanta, Georgia to announce a deal that will bring millions of solar panels to thousands of homes and businesses in the United States.

In her visit on Thursday, the vice president announced a deal between the unit of South Korea’s Hanhwa Solutions and Virginia-based Summit Ridge Energy that she said will provide solar power to places that have struggled to utilize it, such as low-income households.

Under the deal, Q Cells and Summit Ridge Energy will produce two-point-five million solar panels to generate one-point-two gigawatts of energy to an estimated 140-thousand homes and businesses.

Noting that the project will be the largest community solar effort in U.S. history, Harris touted it as a part of the Biden administration's "Investing in America" policy.

Hanwha Solutions said in January that it will invest two-point-five billion dollars to expand its Dalton, Georgia plant and build another facility in nearby Cartersville. Q Cells projects that it will supply about 30 percent of the total U.S. solar panel demand by 2027.

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