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Watt It Takes
with Raffi Garabedian

Raffi Garabedian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Electric Hydrogen. They’re trying a new approach to green hydrogen, using electrolyzers many times larger than the industry standard to drive efficiency and lower costs, hoping to produce hydrogen at a scale large enough to replace fossil fuels in hundreds of uses across the economy, without any emissions.

 
 
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Raffi Garabedian

Co-Founder & CEO
Electric Hydrogen
 
 
 

Raffi Garabedian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Electric Hydrogen. Raffi was most recently with First Solar, the pioneering thin-film solar company, where he served as CTO from 2012-2020. Before joining First Solar in 2008, he was founder and CEO of Touchdown Technologies. He has a long history of innovation and entrepreneurship in "hard-tech" ranging from automotive components to telecommunications subsystems. He holds over 20 issued patents and has learned a lot over the years about strategy, business development, product, manufacturing operations, leadership, and most importantly building great teams.

 
 
 
"Hydrogen has emerged as the only viable solution for many applications. We exist fundamentally to speed up that transition and get to economic parity far faster than we think the industry will go on its own un-urged by aggressive and ambitious plans like ours."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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