The Santa Barbara Independent Can Wind and Solar Compete in this Market?

[Thomas Werner, CEO of SunPower] went on to say that climate had not cooperated with his enterprise either, explaining that “its hard to convince people in Germany [thus far SunPower’s biggest market] to put solar systems up when they are digging out from under a huge snow storm.”

Pertz cited some impressive metrics from Clipper before adverting to the judgment of T. Boone Pickens, who he quoted as having said “this wind stuff is dead as hell” just a few hours before. Pertz said that unfortunately, he was inclined to agree.

nbbusinessjournal.com - Going where climate change is taken seriously

Atlantic Hydrogen Inc. isn't letting the economic slowdown stall plans to launch a new clean-energy technology.

After all his travelling, David Wagner, president and CEO of Atlantic Hydrogen, has a good idea of how governments are approaching programs to support carbon intensity reductions.

Company president and chief executive David Wagner is racking up air miles as he jets around the world to meet with potential customers of the CarbonSaver technology.
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After all his travelling, Wagner has a good idea of how governments are approaching programs to support carbon intensity reductions - programs that could spell success for Atlantic Hydrogen's CarbonSaver technology.

"In Europe they are taking this whole climate change issue a lot more seriously than we are in North America," he said.