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Selected from over 500 applicants, Ram Sishir Kancharla and Johanna (Jo) Samu are joining OREC to lead business development and member engagement. Discover how bringing dedicated engineering and communications expertise to our team will help us scale up local, community-owned clean energy across Ontario.

In the summer of 2012, OREC had 9 weeks to raise $500,000 or return every dollar to investors. The catch? We didn’t own a single physical project yet. This is the story of a ticking clock, an overflowing room at The Hub, and a community that shattered expectations to launch Ottawa’s green energy transition.