Solar Panel Waste

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After reading this, I looked around at some home solar panel companies and none of them talk about the life expectancy of their panels (that I could find.)

Do you mean that you looked at home solar panel installation companies or at manufacturers? It's the manufacturers who provide module life expectancy estimates/assurance.

You want to look at the product warranty and the power warranty for modules: https://www.solar-estimate.org/solar-panels-101/how-to-under...

These values are typically disclosed in the module data sheet:

https://www.lg.com/us/business/download/resources/BT00002151...

LG, SunPower, Panasonic, and perhaps some other premium manufacturers are offering 25 year combined product-and-power warranties. It's becoming more common as durability improves.

More typical at present is a 10 year product warranty with a 25 year power warranty, like this module from REC offers:

https://www.recgroup.com/sites/default/files/documents/ds_re...

nice, I was looking at installation companies.

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