Juan Anderson has worked in renewables, major transmission, and battery energy storage projects since 2005. He also spent 3 formative years of his youth living and going to school in an Inuit village in arctic Quebec. Indigenous and Community inclusion in projects have been central over his career. Juan was a founding director of the Oxford Community Energy Co-op, Canada’s largest rural renewable energy co-op, and lead the development of the Gunn’s Hill Wind Farm, a unique partnership with that community co-op and Six Nations of the Grand River. With Wataynikaneyap Power he conducted over 100 engagement meetings with elders, landusers, leadership, and community members across 1600 km of transmission lines through the 24 partner First Nations’ territory. It was the first major development activity permitted in most of those territories. In the recent Ontario procurement, Juan and his colleagues formed partnerships with Six Nations of the Grand River and Walpole Island First Nation and won contracts for 300MW and 80MW of battery energy storage projects respectively. He currently serves as Director of Greenfield Origination for Boralex’s North American business unit.