The primary disadvantage of cigs panels are their price.
Cost of cigs solar panels.
David pearce ceo of cigs manufacturer miasole says that his company can erect a factory that can put out 100 megawatts worth of solar panels a year for 25 million.
Most solar panels last for 50 years have a 25 year warranty and start generating a return on investment after 8 years.
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While cigs solar panels are an exciting option they are currently very expensive to produce to the point where they can t compete with traditional silicon or cadmium telluride panels.
Production costs continue to be an issue for the cigs solar panel market.
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Doe supports innovative research focused on overcoming the current technological and commercial barriers for copper indium gallium diselenide cu in x ga 1 x se 2 or cigs solar cells a list of current projects summary of the benefits and discussion on the production and manufacturing of this solar technology are below.