Brent Harris

Chief Operating Officer and Founder Eguana Technologies Inc.

Brent Harris is Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Eguana, a leading global supplier of residential and commercial energy storage systems. Brent is an inventor of the Company’s technologies, has led the commercialization and early sales of its products, and is now responsible for Eguana’s global operations. He has a passion for decentralised energy in general and for solar+storage in particular. He is an active proponent of changes to the management and regulation of our electric system that will enable greater adoption of decentralized and renewable energy technologies and has been actively engaged in various industry organisations in Canada and the US. He is currently a director of Decentralised Energy Canada, an industry association supporting innovation and commercialization in Canada’s decentralised energy sector.

Brent is a graduate of Queens’ University in Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, and was selected as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue Magazine in 2009.

"Decentralised solar and storage must play a key role in our electricity supply system if we are to have any chance of succeeding in meeting our future electricity needs. Rising populations, rising expectations on quality of life, and the advent of the electric car are all going to put enormous pressure on our electricity infrastructure. Spiraling costs, emissions concerns, and the sheer time involved between planning and commissioning conventional power plants make them less and less attractive as time goes on. It won't happen overnight, but infrastructure assets have a long service life, and there is lots of work to do, so if we are going to meet the challenge, we need to change the decisions and investments we are making today".