Biography

Jan Buijk is the President and CEO of European Power Systems Ltd., a Canadian company that is specialized in providing energy solutions with best in class gas engine technology for renewable energy projects such as landfill gas and biogas utilization, on-site power, CHP, District Energy and other gaseous fuelled power generation applications.

Prior to founding EPS, Jan was Vice President and General Manager at DDACE Power Systems and has held sales management positions at DTE Energy Technologies, GE Distributed Power and Toromont Power Systems with Canada wide responsibilities for the sales and marketing of a variety of gas engine based distributed generation applications.

Jan started his career in the power generation business in 1984 at “Spruyt Energy Systems” in the Netherlands where he was responsible for the engineering and project management of gas engine based CHP and other on-site power projects.

Over the past 20 years Jan has had engineering, project management and direct sales and marketing responsibilities for more than 100 renewable energy, CHP, district energy, and other distributed generation projects currently in operation across Canada.

Jan received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands, where he also wrote a thesis on the use of landfill gas for power generation applications.

Jan is a former director of OSEA and the CDEA and currently holds director positions with the Association of Power Producers of Ontario and WADE Canada.