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Panel advances bill requiring large-scale solar facilities to use recyclers; fines proposed for landfill disposal
Summary
Representative Trey Kelly presented a bill to require end-of-life solar panels from large-scale projects be taken to certified recycling facilities and to impose a per-panel civil penalty for sending panels to landfills. Industry leaders including Q Cells and recycler representatives testified in support.
Representative Trey Kelly introduced House Bill 320 in the Resource Management Subcommittee, proposing that large-scale solar-power facilities send decommissioned solar panels to certified recyclers rather than municipal landfills. The measure would not cover residential installations, Kelly said; it targets utility-scale projects defined elsewhere in code.
"When those panels reach their end of life, it would require that... the big megawatt projects... require them to be taken to a solar recycling facility," Kelly said. He told the committee the bill defines "legitimate recycling facility" and sets a civil penalty for landfill disposal at $20 per panel.
Kelly framed the proposal around the rapid growth of solar in Georgia and the…
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