Tableau 1
Production limitations of the PV technologies [7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 129].
| PV technology | Limiting | Max installed capacity | Max yearly production | Ratio (demand |
| element | based on the limiting | based on annual production | 2030/2008 production) | |
| element reserves | of limiting material | of limiting element | ||
| (1.5–2.5 TWp demand) | (20–150 GWp demand) | |||
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| c-Si | Ag | 5–15 TWp | 305 GWp | 20 |
| CdTe | Te | 0.1–0.8 TWp | 2.3–40 GWp | 50 |
| CIGS | In | 0.1–0.6 TWp | 13–26 GWp | 3 |
| Dye-sensitized | Ru, In (TCO) | 0.06–0.9 TWp | 2.2 GWp | n.a. |
| solar cells | ||||
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