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Robert Rose, Executive Director, U.S. Fuel Cell Council:
"Fuel Cells and Hydrogen,
A Cost-Competitive, Low-Carbon Alternative"
Recent studies confirm a business case for fuel cells, enhanced by newly approved federal tax credits and grant opportunities. Recent analysis identifies a significant environmental benefit. Recent purchases confirm marketplace interest. Do barriers remain, and what are developers doing to overcome them?
About Robert Rose:
Robert Rose is founding executive director of the US Fuel Cell Council, the business association of the fuel cell industry. Established in 1998, the council has more than 100 members. Rose also founded the Breakthrough Technologies Institute, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting advanced environmental and energy technologies from the perspective of the public interest. BTI¹s fuel cell education program, Fuel Cells 2000, was launched in 1993 and is internationally recognized. In a career spanning more than 30 years in Washington, DC, Rose has served in senior communications and policy positions in the U.S. government, provided consulting service and advice to a wide range of public and private sector clients, written or edited several books, and appeared before Committees of Congress. Rose is the author of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen: The Path Forward, which outlines a public-private partnership to develop and commercialize fuel cells and a supporting fuel infrastructure. The Path Forward helped shape the fuel cell provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Rose has many other writing and speaking credits and is a regular media source.
Rose is the 2004 recipient of the Fuel Cell Seminar Award, the most prestigious award of its kind in the U.S. Rose was a working journalist in New England before joining the staff of Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. In the 1980¹s and 1990¹s he was a private consultant on environmental policy and communications.
Rose received his Bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy from the University of Nebraska in 1968.
