Qcells lands biggest community solar order in America

• Renewables programmer Summit Ridge Energy as well as solar items manufacturer Qcells on Thursday made a statement about what US Vice President Kamala Harris claimed is the biggest community solar order in American background.

Summit Ridge Energy has actually signed a deal to acquire 1.2 GW of photovoltaic panels and 20 MWh of energy storage space from Qcells for setup over the next four years as part of more than 350 community solar projects. The first 200 MW of photovoltaic panels are anticipated to be released this year.

"The IRA [Inflation Reduction Act] has actually provided crucial motivations to drive clean energy fostering and also fulfill environment targets, and also now the sector requires collaborations like the one in between Qcells and SRE to put policy into technique," Steve Raeder, Summit Ridge Energy's CEO, said at an event gone to by Vice President Harris.

Qcells, the Hanwha Group-owned company that has dedicated to establishing a completely incorporated solar supply chain in the United States, will certainly make most of the modules under this order at its manufacturing facilities in Georgia.

In January 2023, Qcells introduced strategies to invest USD 2.5 billion (EUR 1.83 bn) in the construction of an industrial complicated for the manufacturing of solar ingots, wafers, cells and modules in Bartow County and also the growth of its photovoltaic panel center in Dalton. The company aims to have 8.4 GW of photovoltaic panel production capacity in Georgia by 2024.