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The Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) is excited to announce its four new Directors after its Annual General Meeting, held this past Saturday February 25th. The four new Directors join a pragmatic board of future focused leaders committed to the transition to a more sustainable energy system in Ontario. In this future, dubbed Green Energy Ontario 3.0, we will have lower energy bills, cleaner air and water and a more reliable, distributed and resilient energy system that creates good jobs, prosperous communities and healthy businesses. It is a more democratic energy system where individuals, communities, the private sector and public sector are all conservers and generators of renewable energy.
OSEA's four new Directors bring with them diverse perspectives, multi-disciplinary skills and broad networks that will help shape this vision into reality. Our new directors are:
Derek Satnik (Managing Director @ Mindscape Innovations)
Derek is a respected business leader in Kitchener-Waterloo, past Vice-President of OSEA, a key contributor to national and provincial green building and energy policy and a long time supporter of Community Power. An Electrical Engineer by trade, he is engaged in both conservation and renewable energy.
Jutta Splettstoesser (Farmer and Community Power project owner @ Splettstoesser Farms Inc.)
A full-time farmer in Canada since 1993, she is a practical person raising her four children who range from ages 8-15, as well as her crops in Kincardine Township. She is co-founder of the Friends of Wind, a strong advocate for "Citizen Power" and the proud owner of a FIT and micro-FIT solar project.
John Kourtoff (CEO @ Trillium Power Wind Corporation)
John was the Canadian delegate for a low-carbon economy at the G8 Environment Conference in Siracusa, Italy. He is a former co-chair of the Ontario Government Finance Advisory Committee and a member of the Government Energy Advisory Committee. John has founded, lead and owned several companies in the high-tech and financial sector and currently heads Ontario's first offshore wind development company.
Ernie Belyea (Partner @ Bennet Jones LLP)
Ernie is recognized as one of the leading Energy-Corporate lawyers in Canada. He practices primarily in the energy/electricity area in the structuring, financing, development, and acquisition of independent power projects and electrical utilities. Prior to joining Bennett Jones Ernie served as the Ontario Power Authority's in house counsel and was responsible for the drafting of the Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program’s rules.
