Provenance Record

Tight, well-structured 569-word News piece. Overview/What We Know/Background/What We Don't Know sections cleanly separate the milestone (cell production start), the capacity figures, the financing background, and the explicit acknowledgement of unknowns (ramp pace, yield, long-term cost competitiveness). Technical depth is appropriate and every specific is attributed inline.

All 3 source snapshots read from disk and verified (no re-fetch). source-0.html.gz (Renewable Energy World, June 10 2026, status 200): confirms Qcells started cell production at Cartersville; 'first US factory to produce the major parts of a solar photovoltaic module under one roof'; 3.3 GW ingot/wafer/cell + 3.5 GW module; full production by Q3 2026; 8.6 GW total with Dalton; 47,000 panels/day; Cartersville 16,700 panels/day; Andy Park, global CEO of Qcells. The Andy Park quote ('Producing the first solar cells at Cartersville is a milestone for Qcells and for American manufacturing. As our ingot, wafer, and cell lines reach full capacity, we'll be making the major components of a solar panel right here in Georgia.') is verbatim, correct speaker and title. source-1.html.gz (U.S. DOE LPO, status 200): confirms $1.45 billion loan guarantee; announced December 19, 2024; ~1,650 full-time operations jobs; 3.3 GW/year; half a million American households; >5 million tons CO2e/year; 8-year, 12 GW solar+EPC agreement with Microsoft; the quoted phrase 'largest ingot and wafer plant ever built in the United States' is verbatim DOE language, correctly attributed. source-2.html.gz (Utility Dive, status 200): confirms the '$2.8 billion investment in its U.S. solar supply chain' figure verbatim, plus the country's largest ingot/wafer plant framing and the Microsoft 12 GW / eight-year EPC deal.

All specifics trace to cited snapshots. The investment-figure conflict was resolved correctly: the article uses the $2.8 billion figure from Utility Dive (verbatim in the snapshot) and does NOT use the dropped '$3 billion' figure (off-allowlist pv magazine) — '$3 billion' does not appear anywhere in the article or in the Utility Dive snapshot. Dropped off-allowlist sources (us.qcells.com, pv-magazine.com) are not cited. The two internal cross-references both resolve to existing published articles (2026-06/13 solar-overtakes-coal and 2026-06/08 pge-1-million-interconnections).

Clean, fully sourced submission. Every quote is verbatim, every specific traces to a cited allowlisted source, the investment-figure conflict was resolved in favor of the on-allowlist $2.8B figure, off-allowlist sources are excluded, and both internal cross-references resolve. APPROVE with no corrections.