The highway to photo voltaic glory has been plagued by failed corporations — those it’s possible you’ll know (Solyndra) and a whole bunch you in all probability don’t.
Will the burgeoning hydrogen house comply with an identical bumpy highway? Hydrogen is at an identical part of market and technological maturity, with related ranges of hype.
On this episode, Shayle talks to Raffi Garabedian, the previous CTO of pioneering photo voltaic producer First Photo voltaic and now the co-founder and CEO of Electrical Hydrogen Co. (Disclosure: Shayle simply led Power Affect Companions’ funding within the firm).
First Photo voltaic was one of many only a few Western corporations that survived the worth stress, commoditization and commerce dynamics within the photo voltaic business throughout its early progress part. How did First Photo voltaic do it? And what does that inform us about surviving the heady-but-volatile hydrogen house?
Shayle and Raffi dig into that historical past, overlaying First Photo voltaic’s guess on mass-producible cadmium telluride expertise, in addition to the dangerous step of retooling manufacturing.
Additionally they cowl the parallels to hydrogen: How does a novel expertise compete towards dominant incumbents? How does that expertise navigate the boom-and-bust cycles of an rising market? How can an govt staff choose probably the most helpful metric for its artistic groups?
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