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ENGIE and SOLARCYCLE announce innovative "precycling" collaboration to incorporate circularity into domestic solar projects
ENGIE North America (ENGIE) announced that as part of an increasing approach to circularity, it will pilot a new precycling provision to incorporate solar panel and project component recycling into initial agreements at four projects. The innovative approach was developed in cooperation with SOLARCYCLE, a leading technology-based solar panel recycler.
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