Episode 015 - Electricity, electricity Everywhere!

Matt Lensink, P.Eng.,Chief Operating Officer at CEM Engineering sits  down to talk with Richard Laszlo, President of Laszlo Energy Services and Tim Short about their experiences in the energy sector, electric vehicles, where we are headed with CHP and more.

Richard Laszlo

Richard has now been working on energy and climate policies and technology for nearly 20 years with a variety of public, private and non-profit organizations and has facilitated and spoken at dozens of workshops and events across Canada. Richard has been providing customized energy and carbon policy, strategy and communications expertise to corporate, utility and government clients under Laszlo Energy Services since 2010. As a Senior Associate with QUEST, Richard chairs the Ontario CHP Consortium, representing over 130 energy leaders from 70 organizations committed to moving combined heat and power (CHP) policies and projects forward. Richard is the proud author of Pollution Probe’s first Primer on Energy Systems in Canada and contributed to the development of the Ontario’s Renewable Energy Approval under the Green Energy and Green Economy Act.

Tim Short

Tim has worked in the mining, chemical, banking, telecommunications and energy sectors in sales, and market and business development roles for thirty years. At Enbridge, he was involved in a wide variety of assignments: project-lead for the successful change in the rule within national emergency generator Standard (CSA C282) to enable natural gas utility-fed designs, co-founder of the Ontario CHP Consortium, project-lead to pilot bi-fuel generation in Ontario with the Ministries or Energy and Environment, business development lead on the installation of the major gas pipelines that currently feed the Northland 265 MW CHP in Thorold and the Pristine Power 400 MW gas-peaker plant in King City, project-lead on the roll-out of Ontario electricity and gas utilities’ “5 & 25 Rule” which was the first formal procedure to share electricity and gas consumption with municipalities, project manager in Enbridge’s recently commissioned hydrogen Power-to-Gas facility in Markham, active member on the joint Alectra-Enbridge-NRCan-Ryerson hybrid (gas + electric) heating project, and business developer of RNG projects with municipalities and private developers. As Partner with Laszlo Energy Services, Tim continues to broaden his reach into energy-related work including most recently developing projects to roll out EV charger networks in Ontario.