Erik Janssen
Erik Janssen is a Senior Analyst with the Toronto and Region Conservation
Authority’s Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP). For the
past two years at STEP, Erik’s work has focused on the instrumentation,
monitoring and performance analysis, of near-to-market heat pump and
photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Technical reports written by Erik are
available on STEP’s webpage (sustainabletechnologies.ca), with current or
recently finished work including a comprehensive study examining the
performance of several GTA geoexchange systems, a performance
evaluation of air-source heat pump water heaters and a power quality
assessment of grid-tie solar PV inverters. Prior to STEP, Erik worked as a
Laboratory Testing Specialist and Junior Engineer at Ecologix Heating Technologies Inc., a small-scale
local manufacturer of innovative cold climate air-source heat pumps. His time at Ecologix was primarily
spent collecting heat pump performance data in the company’s cold chamber laboratory for use in
quality control and in the development of advanced control algorithms. He holds a M.A.Sc. in
Engineering Physics from McMaster University, where his research concerning the fabrication and
characterization of novel silicon-based PV devices resulted in the publication of two conference papers
at the highly-regarded Photovoltaic Specialist Conference. Erik also holds a Swedish Magisterexam in
Solar Energy Engineering from the European Solar Engineering School (ESES) and a B.Sc. (Hon) in Physics.