The street to photo voltaic glory has been affected by failed corporations — those it’s possible you’ll know (Solyndra) and lots of you most likely don’t.
Will the burgeoning hydrogen area comply with an identical bumpy street? Hydrogen is at an identical part of market and technological maturity, with comparable 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 Affect Companions’ funding within the firm).
First Photo voltaic was one of many only a few Western corporations that survived the value stress, commoditization and commerce dynamics within the photo voltaic business throughout its early development 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, protecting First Photo voltaic’s wager on mass-producible cadmium telluride know-how, in addition to the dangerous step of retooling manufacturing.
Additionally they cowl the parallels to hydrogen: How does a novel know-how compete towards dominant incumbents? How does that know-how navigate the boom-and-bust cycles of an rising market? How can an govt crew choose essentially the most helpful metric for its inventive groups?
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