In this episode, Janice Tran, co-founder and CEO of Kanin Energy, joins hosts Adam Murray and Bryan Nix to discuss how industrial waste heat can be captured and converted into reliable, clean electricity.
The conversation explores how waste heat to power works, why the technology has been underutilized, and how Kanin’s development and financing model is helping industrial facilities turn an overlooked byproduct into a source of baseload power, lower costs, and reduced emissions.
Along the way, the discussion touches on anaerobic digestion for energy, microgrids, and how having a personal North Star can lead to a career of meaningful work.
About Janice Tran
Janice Tran provides the leadership and financing strategy for Kanin Energy. Prior to Kanin, Tran was a Director at Generate Capital, a project finance investment firm that focused on investing in renewable energy projects. There she built North America’s largest portfolio of anaerobic digestion assets. Her role spanned deal execution, origination, market development and asset management.
Prior to Generate Capital, Tran helped start NRG’s renewable microgrids business line. She also co-founded Student Energy, a nonprofit which is today’s largest global charity dedicated to educating and uniting post-secondary students on energy issues.
Tran is a licensed Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada. She has a Masters of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University in New York, where she received an Earth Institute Fellowship.
Tran also has a Masters in Accounting from the University of Saskatchewan, and double majored with a BA in Philosophy and BComm in Accounting from the University of Calgary.
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