The reused panels come from decommissioned utility-scale solar farms and residential installations across the United States. SOLARCYCLE says the project serves as a model on how to power an industrial facility through renewable energy as the US ramps up domestic manufacturing capacity.

Avangrid recently donated 300 pounds of decommissioned wind turbine blades to WindLoop to test recycling processes.

The new facility, located in Breckenridge, Texas to minimize its carbon footprint, is equipped with technology that the company says fully extracts all materials for reuse.

Researchers have extracted silicon from old solar panels and converted it into a nano material used to build better batteries.

Siemens Gamesa’s RecyclableBlades have been installed at RWE’s Kaskasi offshore wind power project in Germany.