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HPAC
A Toronto company’s push toward a world without refrigerants
October 2026
The first thing you notice on this stretch of Toronto’s industrial east end is the strip plaza itself: low, beige, unassuming, home to a few HVAC companies, commercial printers, trade contractors and clean-tech startups. The second is the entrance to a single suite: a plain glass door that looks like every other door on the strip.
National Observer
'Constant instability': How new US tariffs are testing Canada's cleantech startups
September 2026
Hanif Montazeri was traveling through India in 2016. At noon in Delhi that day it was pushing an infernal 43C.
“I was out walking in the street and my head started quivering, I couldn’t cognitively function,” recalled the future CEO of Enersion, a Toronto-based cleantech startup.
“I realized cooling was not a luxury in a world facing climate change, it was a necessity,” the Iranian-born Montazeri told Canada’s National Observer.
Toronto Star
Triple threat: Toronto-based Enersion converts solar energy into heating, cooling and electricity
November 2023
Hanif Montazeri has always been obsessed with devices. Growing up in Iran, he and his brother loved to make electronic gadgets. Over the course of two summers in the late ’90s, they even designed and fabricated an electric, 18-wheel toy truck that could turn, signal and move at speeds of four km/h by voice command. And while Montazeri was pursuing his PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Toronto in the mid-2000s, he was “always looking for the next great product.”
News 12 Hudson Valley
New hybrid solar panel technology tested by Con Edison
November 2023
international.gc.ca
Cool customer
October 2021
Hanif Montazeri, the CEO of Canadian cleantech company Enersion, on why a warming world needs a greener cooling system, making inroads into the Middle East and developing world, and what inspired him.
When Hanif Montazeri was a teenager in Iran, he and his younger brother Ali made toy trucks and other electronic gadgets for their friends and neighbours.