A company based in Arizona's "Valley of the Sun" went abroad to the much less sunny Germany to find the market opportunity that made it one of the fastest growing manufacturers of solar modules in the world, said its CEO, Michael Ahearn.
Ahearn, founder as well as CEO of First Solar, Inc., was named the 2009 Dean's Council of 100 Executive of the Year by the W. P. Carey School of Business. In his acceptance speech he said that the U.S. lags behind European Union member nations, which are moving toward a carbon-neutral model that will be a global competitive advantage in coming decades.
"This question of energy policy is a key issue today -- not just in the U.S. but world wide. And I think it's very likely that we'll look back a few years from now and realize that we are on the cusp of a major transformation in the fundamentals of energy policy," Ahearn said.
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