SOLARCYCLE Raises $30 Million for Advanced Recycling

Mar 16, 2023 10:32 AM ET
  • The funds will be utilized to scale its development in solar panel reusing capacity as well as increase products remanufacturing capabilities
  • Currently the complete funding of SOLARCYCLE stands at $37 million because its beginning a year back.

Texas-based reusing start-up SOLARCYCLE that creates sustainable products at range for the solar industry, has actually raised $30 million in Series A funding. Now the total financing stands at $37 million since its beginning a year back.

SOLARCYCLE stated that the funds, containing both firm equity as well as infrastructure funding, will certainly be utilized to scale its development in solar panel recycling capacity and also increase materials remanufacturing capabilities.

The round is led by property manager Fifth Wall, and HG Ventures, which likewise included participation from Prologis Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund and Closed Loop Partners. The news adheres to the first $6.6 M seed round the firm raised in May 2022.

Professionals in panel production, advanced recycling, and also environment technology founded SOLARCYCLE last year to produce an extra sustainable, domestic supply chain for the solar industry.

In order to meet the raising need for new solar panel manufacturing, SOLARCYCLE has developed exclusive innovation that can cost-effectively return greater than 95% of all the valuable products, like light weight aluminum, glass, copper, silver, and also silicon, back right into the solar value chain to help develop a lasting and also scalable solar industry.

SOLARCYCLE stated that the infrastructure financing, led by Fifth Wall Infrastructure and also Special Situations Partner Alok Sindher, offers asset-level equity capital for first-of-a-kind Odessa factory of the firm.

Suvi Sharma, CEO as well as Co-Founder, SOLARCYCLE, claimed, "This Series A funding will permit us to further advance our trademarked technology, grow partnerships with market leaders, and also swiftly build recycling infrastructure in the United States and also past to mine old photovoltaic panels for making new photovoltaic panels."

Current study projects that recyclable materials from photovoltaic panels will deserve more than $2.7 billion by 2030, up from $170 million this year. SOLARCYCLE works with domestic, commercial as well as commercial (C&I), as well as energy business to recycle photovoltaic panels at range.

SOLARCYCLE declares to be on course to install capacity to recycle one million solar panels annually by the end of 2023, as well as plans to open an up and down integrated, progressed recycling manufacturing facility with the ability of refining numerous panels annually in 2024.


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