This story was updated on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at 8 p.m.
A clean energy company is abandoning a plan to build a giant electric battery factory in Atlanta’s suburbs after it shifted to buy a solar panel plant in Texas.
Freyr Battery told officials in Newnan on Thursday that it wouldn’t build a $2.6 billion plant that was supposed to hire more than 700 people, after sending a Jan. 21 letter to the Coweta County Development Authority announcing its plans to end the project.
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