Fuel Cell Workers Plead for Their Jobs in Open Letter to Trump

  • Employees of Plug Power seeking U.S. tax-credit extention
  • Fuel cells didn’t get tax credits for wind, solar in ‘mistake’
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Makers of fuel cells are asking Donald Trump to fix a mistake that left them out of the tax-credit extensions granted to solar and wind power a year ago.

In an open letter to the President-elect posted on an industry group’s website late Monday, dozens of employees of Latham, New York-based Plug Power Inc. appealed to Trump’s willingness to “call out mistakes and fix them” after congressional staff omitted fuel cells and some other technologies from tax-credit extensions approved in December 2015. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at the time that the omission was a drafting error and vowed to fix it, but it hasn’t been resolved.