Speakers

Alessandro Benetello

 

With 15+ years of working experience in the European photovoltaic industry, he is passionate about working on the renewable energy industry and making efforts to further development of sustainability agenda forward.

Alejandro del Amo

 

Highly qualified professional expert in innovative solutions applied to renewable energies and bioclimatic architecture.
In 2017, I founded ABORA where we are focus on developing the most profitable solar panel on the market.
Expert on: Solar thermal and photovoltaic, solar cooling, solar trigeneration, wind power, building certification, bioclimatic architecture.

Bernadette Del Chiaro

 

She has been serving as executive director of the California Solar & Storage Association since July 2013 and has built the organization into one of the largest clean energy business groups in the United States. Prior to her work with CALSSA, Ms. Del Chiaro served as the Director of Clean Energy and Global Warming Programs at Environment California as well as the Western States Regional Director for Environment America. Since 2002, Bernadette has been a leading voice in California on many clean energy initiatives including the Million Solar Roofs Initiative, the Solar Water Heating Initiative, Net Energy Metering, streamlined solar permitting, and the expansion of consumer incentives for energy storage.

 

 

José Carlos Díaz Lacaci

 

Over 15 years as General Manager in different sectors like TELCO (telefonica, Orange, ONO, PEPEPHONE), TOURISM (GLOBALIA-AIREUROPA), ENERGY (PEPEENERGY,POWEN), now he is leading the POWEN’s project, specialist leader in selfconsumption. He is specialist in growth and scalability of companies and his carrer is marked for launching PEPEPHONE, the spanish MVNO that was bought for MASMOVIL over €160M. He loves the operations, digitization and all the decision that he takes is focus on the customer satisfaction.

Eugenio Domínguez

 

He was the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief technology officer of WinInertia Technologies from 2008 to 2017, with a focus on solutions for energy systems that carry out the integration of energy storage systems (ESSs) in applications such as transportation. Since 2017, he has been the CEO of Hybrid Energy Storage Solutions Technologies, Sevilla, Spain, a company that develops power systems that facilitate the integration of distributed energy source systems in the electrical grid.

Juan Fraga

 

25+ years experience in the renewable energy and power sectors: renewable power plants, electricity storage, hydrogen production and derivatives. Technology development and equipment manufacturing, financial structuring, construction and operation. Policy development and lobbying. Widespread international network, with deep interconnections with power and renewable energy companies, and related institutions, organizations and media.

Francesc Filiberto

 

He is currently Head of Business Development, leading the project development activities of the company. He has also been acting as interim Managing Director for the last year until January when we hired our new Managing Director.

Víctor Hernández

 

25+ years experience in the renewable energy and power sectors: renewable power plants, electricity storage, hydrogen production and derivatives. Technology development and equipment manufacturing, financial structuring, construction and operation. Policy development and lobbying. Widespread international network, with deep interconnections with power and renewable energy companies, and related institutions, organizations and media.

Javier Izcue Elizalde

 

Industrial Engineer. Master in Project Management. Highly proactive, dynamic and goal oriented. 15 years of work experience, since 2007 in the renewable energy market in national and international photovoltaic projects.
Iberia Service Director, Solar PV, BESS & Green H2 in INGETEAM S.A. managing a portfolio of service projects in more than 300 MW under construction and more than 1000 MW in O&M of PV projects in Spain and Portugal, leading a team of 10 Project Managers and a technical team of more than 100 people directly.

Fermín Lagunas Llorente

 

Fermín Lagunas, Chemical Engineer by the Complutense University, began his work in the renewable energy sector back in 2003, passing through positions that have always had to do with commercial issues and international business development, always giving much importance to a maximum technical knowledge in everything he did. His technical vision of the project and the Renewable Market is therefore global and solid, due to a high technical knowledge and experience acquired during his 20 years of experience. He currently heads the Business Development and Commercial Department at Baywa r.e. in the Services Business Area.

Jorge Mallén Lopez

 

Industrial Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in the energy sector and civil works. Extensive experience in the development, design and execution of photovoltaic solar energy projects. With vast knowledge of photovoltaic technology, electricity markets and energy efficiency. Companies and public administrations technical advisor in the implementation of measures that favour the energy transition. Lecturer of Solar Energy at CFP (UPV). Devoleper of Energy Communities. MBA and Postgraduate in Innovation for Social and Environmental Transition by the UPV. Head of PV Self - Consumption & Distributed Generation in Lantania.

Benito Montiel

 

Before assuming the General Directorate of Industry and Energy, Montiel has worked in the City Council of Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real), where he has been manager of the Municipal Water Company, deputy mayor and councilman of Environment.

María Trinidad Navarro

 

Mrs María Trinidad is the current Managing Director, leading the growth of the company with focus in M&A and greenfield development in order.
Maria has more than 17 years of business development and M&A experience. Prior to working at Soto Solar, she occupied different positions in Repsol and Repsol renewables, leading international transactions worldwide.

Alejandro Pintado

 

Mining Engineer with international experience in Europe & Asia as Engineer and Product Manager, specializing in the exciting world of Renewable Energies. I have experience in the photovoltaic and automotive industry, digital marketing, metrics analysis and team coordination.

Javier Revuelta

 

Javier is a Senior Principal at AFRY Management Consulting, specialising in the regulation and modelling of energy markets. He has 19 years of experience in the power sector, including system operation and system planning at the Spanish TSO (Red Eléctrica), and currently leading the electricity practice at AFRY. He is an Electrical Engineer by Comillas ICAI, and holds an MBA by Insead Business School.

Rosalía Rivas Saiz

 

Industrial Engineer with almost 20 years of experience in Red Eléctrica (the Spanish TSO). She has been in differtent positions related to the real time operation and the design of the system. Rosalía participated in the comission of the CECRE (Control Center for Renewable Energies). Since 2016 Rosalía is the Head of the System Reliability Department being rseponsible of guaranting the dynamic stability of the system within the context of the energy transition.

Xabier Otaño

 

Xabier Otaño studied industrial automation engineering and has been working at Mondragon Assembly for 17 years, of which the last 15 years have been dedicated to the commercial area. He has been involved for more than 10 years in PV Solar Industry. In this moment he is the Head of Sales of the Solar Business, helping to provide the best solutions to the solar PV industry adapting to the needs of the customers.

Vanesa Peñalver

 

Vanesa Peñalver Ojeda is responsible for business development and management in the self-consumption segment in Spain for Sunova Solar Technologies Inc.
The last years of her professional experience have been focused on offering solutions to installation companies through the development of the distribution channel as responsible for key accounts in the segment.

Asier Ukar

 

Asier Ukar is Senior Consultant at PI Berlin and Managing Director of the Spanish subsidiary PI Berlin S.L. He has 14 years experience in advising utility-scale projects with physical presence in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. With PI Berlin, he has actively participated since 2008 in the design, supervision and refinancing of PV projects globally, offering his services mainly to financial entities, governmental bodies, developers and EPCs.