Houston, TX (August 5, 2024) — RNWBL®, a leading renewable energy services provider, and SOLARCYCLE®, an advanced technology solar recycling company, today announced a partnership to recycle solar panels under RNWBL’s operations. The agreement expands on RNWBL’s existing commitment to sustainability and to maximizing system performance and minimizing downtime for its customers through rapid repowering services.
RNWBL’s Commercial & Industrial (C&I) customers include Fortune 500 companies, utilities, technology firms, independent power producers, big box retailers and warehouses, and original equipment manufacturers.
RNWBL is a full-service operations and maintenance solutions provider for customers across wind, solar, and battery storage projects. Along with its significant utility scale solar solutions business, RNWBL decommissions aged solar assets across North America, including current projects in CA, TX, FL, UT, GA, and MD, with several institutional C&I asset owners. The company is also completing several large module restoration projects across the Southwest. In 2024, RNWBL expects to recycle over 200,000 modules, responsibly diverting them from landfills and providing a full end-to-end solution for its customers.
In recent years, C&I projects have become a key location for solar installation growth. Warehouses, for example, have the potential to generate enough power to supply 20 million homes or 16% of all households in America. Given this growth, a long-term commitment to recycling, as demonstrated in today’s agreement with SOLARCYCLE, ensures that RNWBL’s customers’ panels are reused and recycled to make the next generation of solar panels.
One of RNWBL’s globally recognized customers recently completed a project to repower an aging solar system. All modules from the project were transported to SOLARCYCLE’s advanced recycling facility, where the panels were processed, recycled, and reintegrated into the supply chain.
“RNWBL is excited to partner with SOLARCYCLE to enhance our comprehensive turn-key solutions for project end-of-life solutions. RNBWL aims to ensure all of its customers’ needs are met throughout every phase of our projects,” said Daniel DePonte, Chief Executive Officer of RNWBL.
RNWBL is known for maximizing the long-term value of its customers’ solar and storage investments through optimized operations and maintenance (O&M) and customized data analysis for their customers. Similarly, SOLARCYCLE uses data analysis to offer best-in-class services and lifecycle analysis to its solar industry partners. The recycler’s proprietary processes are increasingly extracting value from each panel so that, combined with reverse logistics, they can provide the lowest-cost recycling solution to RNWBL that maximizes environmental benefits and supply chain resilience.
“RNWBL’s commitment to using data to inform its best-in-class services complements SOLARCYCLE’s mission to keep improving our solar recycling process through data and R&D,” said Suvi Sharma, CEO and Co-Founder of SOLARCYCLE. “C&I systems and their operators hold massive potential when repowering to help power a domestic circular economy. We are proud of this unique relationship with RNWBL that will help them meet their goals, and the sustainability goals of their customers.”
SOLARCYCLE currently operates facilities in Odessa, Texas and Mesa, Arizona, and plans to open a solar glass plant in Cedartown, Georgia in 2025. Since 2022, SOLARCYCLE has inked long-term partnerships with more than 50 of the nation’s largest solar energy companies and diverted over 36 million pounds of material from landfills, which is the equivalent in volume of about 80 Statues of Liberty.
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About RNWBL®
RNWBL is a leading provider of renewable energy services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, RNWBL focuses on providing best-in-class O&M, components, troubleshooting, technology, and support of all types for the growing renewables industry. For more information, please visit www.rnwbl.com.
About SOLARCYCLE®
Founded in 2022, SOLARCYCLE uses advanced technology to recycle retired solar panels, recover valuable materials, and make key components for the next generation of solar panels and clean energy products. Learn more by visiting www.SOLARCYCLE.us.
