Qcells announced on January 11, 2023, that it will invest more than $2.5 billion to build a solar supply chain in the U.S., creating 2,500 jobs in Georgia.[1] The announcement, y Qcells’ parent company Hanwha Solutions, an energy services, petrochemical, and real estate development company headquartered in Seoul, marks the largest such investment in U.S. history. In the first quarter of 2023, Qcells will begin building a facility in Bartow County, Georgia that will manufacture 3.3 GW of solar components and panels a year. The company also plans to assemble an additional 2 GW of solar panels at its Dalton, Georgia facility, bringing total solar panel production to 4.1 GW per year by 2023. The company’s Dalton factory was producing 1.7 GW of solar modules each year and is being overhauled to increase output to 3.1 GW. The investment is expected to bring Qcells’ total solar panel production capacity in Georgia to 8.4-gigawatt by 2024.

[1] https://qcells.com/us/stay-in-the-loop/trending-news-detail?newsId=NEW230109100829007