Peter Ronson

Peter Ronson is the Chief Operating Officer of Markham District Energy, which owns and operates two award-wining community energy systems serving over 15 million square feet of buildings in two of Markham’s developing urban centres. In his role at Markham District Energy, Peter has direct responsibility for managing many aspects of the business, including four district energy plants, four combined heat and power installations, a hot water thermal storage facility, heat recovery heat pumps, the operations and ongoing expansion of MDE’s distribution system, and the current and expanding customers base of 45 customers sites to the network including a Hospital, Office buildings, community centres, data centres, hotels and many residential condominiums. Peter’s 35-year background in the electricity and district energy sector includes development of other district energy systems and many distributed generation projects including cogeneration, district energy, bio-gas generation, diesel stand