Plug Power’s long-time CEO is repositioning the fuel cell maker to be a producer of hydrogen fuel made from water and renewable power to cut climate-warming industrial carbon pollution from the steel, oil and agricultural industries.
It’s nearly one hundred degrees on a baking Los Angeles afternoon but mercifully cool inside the bustling Beverly Hilton where Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh just finished speaking at a tech conference to tout so-called green hydrogen. Dressed casually in a short-sleeve shirt, he’s upbeat and preparing to meet with a member of Congress he won’t name who wants to hear about an aspect of this promising carbon-free energy source that cuts across political lines: jobs.
“Solar and wind projects don’t create a lot of jobs on a continuous basis,” Marsh tells Forbes in a distinctive southeast Pennsylvania accent. “There’s jobs in producing hydrogen….