After Ballard
After leaving full-time management at Ballard Power Systems, in 2000 Ballard formed General Hydrogen, which worked on the problems of generating and distributing hydrogen. In 2007, the company was sold to Plug Power for $10 million.
In 1999 he was named by Time as 'Hero of the Planet'. In 2002 he was named 'Business Leader of the Year' from Scientific American. He received the World Technology Network Award in Energy in 1999, and in Environment in 2000. He also received the Gutenberg International Environment prize in Sweden in 2000. He served as chair of the Canadian Hydrogen Association and as an Advisory Board member for the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California.
He died of complications from liver disease at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.
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