Rick Hopp

Biography

 Richard is Vice President Business Development and President of HTEC (Hydrogen Technology and Energy Corporation). He is responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities in the clean energy and technology sectors. He has over 27 years of experience in the energy sector both in Canada and abroad. His areas of extensive knowledge and expertise include: policy development and marketing, energy project development, management, project financing, and operations as well as being instrumental throughout his career in identifying and commercializing development opportunities in a dynamic energy and alternative energy marketplace. Richard began his career with the Province of British Columbia as an economist and senior energy policy advisor to the Ministry of Energy and Mines and Petroleum Resources. He then worked for the Provincial Treasury Board Staff. After leaving the public sector in 1989, he entered the field of energy marketing and power development with Inland Natural Gas Marketing Ltd. As President of Inland, Richard expanded the company into one of the largest regional markets of energy services to the industrial and utility markets. In 1995, he co-founded ETA Canada, now Maxim Power Corp and helped it grow from a small developer of primarily renewable energy power systems to a large scale owner operator of larger power systems utilizing natural gas, diesel and coal using conventional simple cycle and cogeneration technologies.

Research Interest

 natural gas, diesel and coal