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Lalith Gunaratne | Renewable Energy Adventures: Solar and Small Hydro Stories that bind Canada and Sri Lanka | Apr 3, 2024
April 3 @ 08:00 - 17:00 EDT
Speaker: Lalith Gunaratne
Topic: Renewable Energy Adventures: Solar and Small Hydro Stories that bind Canada and Sri Lanka
Time: Apr 3, 2024
Summary:
The presentation will highlight a lifetime of renewable energy adventures with solar and small hydro that began with a Canadian-Sri Lankan collaboration in 1985 – continuing to date.
The entrepreneurship story is captured in this chapter of a book “Ties that Bind” – https://canadiansrilankanpartnerships.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/solar-energy-canada-helps-sri-lanka-make-history/.
The presentation will share stories of the technical, business, political and human issues as well the challenges and barriers that were faced and overcome with persistence and a vision. These adventures continue as renewable energy still faces many obstacles.
Biography:
Lalith Ananda Gunaratne is a member of CACOR – a parent, an entrepreneur, curator of global ethical business development and a mindfulness-based leadership consultant. His renewable energy ventures continue the Canada-Sri Lanka collaborations. Lalith is an Engineering Technologist by training and has a Masters in Responsibility and Business Practice from the Bath University – School of Business in the United Kingdom.