The highway to photo voltaic glory has been suffering from failed firms — those you could know (Solyndra) and a whole bunch you most likely don’t.
Will the burgeoning hydrogen area 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 Vitality Influence Companions’ funding within the firm).
First Photo voltaic was one of many only a few Western firms that survived the worth strain, commoditization and commerce dynamics within the photo voltaic trade 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 area?
Shayle and Raffi dig into that historical past, overlaying First Photo voltaic’s wager 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 in opposition to dominant incumbents? How does that expertise navigate the boom-and-bust cycles of an rising market? How can an government staff decide probably the most helpful metric for its artistic groups?
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