4 BUSINESS ELITE CANADA | SEPTEMBER 2018
OSEA is rooted in community advocacy to
support renewable energy and sustainable en-
ergy planning. Comprised of board members
with decades of environmental engineering,
project development, utility issues manage-
ment, and advocacy within energy member-
based organizations, OSEA was established to
navigate the complex issues surrounding the
regulatory and public policy challenges that
face communities and related stakeholders in
addressing energy challenges.
VOICE OF SUSTAINABLE
ENERGY
Dan Goldberger, who has been Chair of the
OSEA, after many of Ontario’s Feed-In Tariff
programs (FIT) developed in 2009 were al-
ready slated to be winding down. Created
to promote greater use of renewable energy
sources, FITs were open to a variety of partici-
pants who generate renewable energy and sell
excess power back to the province, not only
encouraging new technology to be developed,
but in the process, invoking new ways of think-
ing about energy consumption.
Goldberger didn’t want to see those 15 years
of innovation to be for nought. “I lead a very
competent supporting team on the Board that
wishes to reclaim OSEA’s role as a leading sus-
tainable energy advocate and trusted voice of
the Government,” says Goldberger. “To this
Local businesses showcase their work to the
public at Green Energy Doors Open 2017 –
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