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If you\u2019ve been around the solar industry for long, you might recognize the name, Raffi Garabedian. If you don\u2019t, however, it\u2019s probably because you haven\u2019t studied the rise of one of the largest solar manufacturing brands in the world, First Solar, or perhaps you didn\u2019t sell against First Solar for years like Nico did in his past life! Raffi was the Chief Technology Officer at First Solar for the better part of the last decade, and recently retired to pursue \u201cother interests\u201d.  When he came out if stealth this year, we were surprised, and pleased, that it was in pursuit of another cutting edge technology scale-up endeavor - productizing an electrolyzer stack that can scale effectively for developers as many, like Intersect Power, scour the market for a partner to help convert those clean green electrons from massive solar and wind parks into Green Hydrogen. 

Founded by experienced renewable energy technologists, Electric Hydrogen aims to cost-effectively decarbonize the massive industrial sectors that we all rely on. Raffi and team are thinking big and with urgency to decarbonize the physical world, and in today\u2019s part four of our Green Hydrogen series, he speaks to exactly where the market is going and what technological limitations have thus far limited scale thus far.

If you\u2019re new to the Hydrogen discussion, you\u2019ll also appreciate Raffi\u2019s solar-specific perspective, detailed insight into the role of solar project developers, and critical thought around the barriers to scale presently for Green Hydrogen technology. It gets technical, but it\u2019s eye-opening, and it\u2019s a ton of value packed into an hour - fair warning, you may need to listen twice!  

As in the last 3 episodes, Intersect Power\u2019s CEO, Sheldon Kimber, joins me for a \u201ctakeaways\u201d session at the end of the episode so you can hear from a major clean infrastructure developer (Intersect has raised >$2.5B in financing) on where all this fits in a real-world application.

This is part four of our Green Hydrogen Mini-Series.  You can follow along and learn more about our experts at www.mysuncast.com/hydrogen 

Episode 1 - Nexus of Deep Decarbonization & \u201cThe Inevitability of Hydrogen\u201d with Sheldon Kimber, CEO Intersect Power

Episode 2 - The Green Hydrogen Opportunity with DNVs Global Energy Storage leader and Hydrogen Industry Veteran, Jason Goodhand

Episode 3 - The Role of the Large Energy Companies, partnership opportunities, existing infrastructure, and more from a top 10 Oil & Gas analyst, RBC\u2019s Biraj Borkhataria

Episode 4 - Role of New Technologies - with Raffi Garbedin, Co-founder of Electric Hydrogen (formerly CTO of First Solar) 

Episode 5 - Decarbonizing Hard-to-abate Sectors Like Steel with Joachim Von Sheele, Global Director of Commercialization at the world\u2019s largest industrial gas company, Linde, who is also building the world\u2019s largest Electrolyzer. (*coming December 21st)

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