Daniel Charette Speaker at Green Hydrogen West Coast Summit

Daniel Charette

Chief Operating Officer Charbone Hydrogen Corp

Daniel Charette is seasoned entrepreneur, a veteran and pioneer of renewable energies in Canada and US since 1998. He began his career in wind power by becoming in 1998, the manager of the first manufacturing wind turbine assembly plant of NEG Micon. From 1999 to 2002, he established Canada’s first regional wind turbine operation & maintenance center in Quebec for at the time considered the largest wind farm in Canada. From 2002 to 2005, he acted as national sales director for Canada including the merger of NEG Micon with Vestas. In 2005, he joined the ranks of Brookfield Renewable where he became director of business development for the Americas renewable energy sector, covering the development of more than $1B of projects and first acted as project manager for the +$400M Prince 1 and 2 wind projects. In addition, he has been involved in several other companies in the field, AAER, Pioneer Wind Energy Systems, NRG Systems/Oenko, Leader Resources and Moventas.

Since 2019, Daniel is the Chief Operating Officer and one of the founding members of CHARBONE Hydrogen Corporation a TSXV company. He is responsible for the establishment and deployment of Charbone’s green hydrogen production facility network in North America, establishing various value chain partnerships to build local ecosystems and oversees all the renewable energy power purchase agreements.

Daniel, is the actual vice-president of “Hydrogen Quebec association”, member of the “Mayor’s Economic Transition Commission of the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Cities Initiative”, member of the “CUTRIC-CITRUC -Zero Emissions Bus Technologies & Energy Solutions Committee (ZEBTEC)”, one of the founder of the “Manitoba Green Hydrogen Round Table” and many more committees.

In the past, he has served on many association boards of directors and committees, including; the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) for nine years, the Quebec Association of Renewable Energy Producers (AQPER), the Latin American Wind Energy Association (LAWEA,) and many more.

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