What cutting clean energy tax credits could mean for Georgia

Solar panels line a farm in Lee County, Georgia that power a data center for Meta in Atlanta.
Solar panels line a farm in Lee County, Georgia that power a data center for Meta near Atlanta. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

A massive solar panel recycling facility called Solarcycle is coming soon to Cedartown, a small community in Northwest Georgia near the Alabama border.

Solarcycle got a $64 million tax credit through the Inflation Reduction Act to build a second facility that will make solar panel glass, but according to the company, the groundbreaking is on hold as Congress considers gutting the clean energy tax credits in the new federal budget.

On this week’s episode of “Plugged In,” hosts Sam Gringlas and Rahul Bali look at what this could mean for Cedartown and Georgia’s flourishing industries making electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels.

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