POTENTIA SOLAR INC EASTYORK.
POTENTIA HAS 263 OPERATING SITES GENERATING 54MW OF ELECTRICITY FROM ONTARIO ROOFTOPS.
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THINKING Sustainable Business Magazine speaks to Chris Asimakis, President and Chief Operating Officer of Potentia Solar Inc., about the future of solar energy. Chris Asimakis has been in the Ontario energy business for a long time. “Over thirty years now,” says the President and Chief Operating Officer of Potentia Solar Inc. “I spent eighteen years at Toronto 30 | SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MAGAZINE
Hydro, where I learned how the company operated and how utility people see their role in the world. Then I went to EnWave, a district energy company, where we did a project called Deep Lake Water Cooling,
which was basically a very large geothermal system which uses Lake Ontario’s cold water to air condition buildings. That was where I learned about district energy, and the importance of on-peak energy in terms of