Considered a global initiative, the Path to 100% movement seeks to find reliable, quick and cost-effective ways to fully decarbonize electricity. To achieve this, there are a variety of paths available to every country. What would Mexico’s roadmap look like? Read more →
With climate goals set by international agreements coming ever closer, industry experts agree that to curb emissions and boost the green energy transition a lot of work remains to be done. But with governments, states and private industry starting to pave their paths toward decarbonization, true sustainability remains an elusive concept. This prompts the question: how do we achieve the transition to 100 percent renewable energy?
Santiago Barcón es CEO de PQBarcon y Energía Hoy. Es emprendedor, asesor y escritor con título en ingeniería eléctrica de la Universidad Iberoamericana. Síguelo en Twitter: @sbarconenergia. Read more →
Ricardo González Romero is a General Manager at Anabática Renovables in Santiago, Chile. He’s a subject matter expert on renewable energy serving in several different roles in the energy sector. He is also a guest professor at three different universities throughout the Latin American region. Question: Please describe yourself and your work. Ricardo: I am Read more →
Claudio Huepe Minoletti is an economist with more than twenty years of experience in both the public and private sectors committed to economic analysis, public policies and regulation, mainly in natural resources, energy, water infrastructure and sustainable development. Read more →
The purpose of this event is to bring experts from Brazil and other countries to discuss ideas on how to address such complexity in energy planning. The virtual event has been organized by the Energy Planning Programme COPPE/UFRJ and Wärtsillä.
Amaro Pereira is an economist and associate professor of the Energy Planning Program (PPE) in the Institute of Graduate Studies in Engineering (COPPE) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has experience in energy and environmental modeling, along with working in the areas of regulation of energy sectors, integration of new technologies and different energy sources on issues related to climate change. Read more →
Marina de Abreu Azevedo is a doctoral student in the Energy Planning Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She’s a researcher specialized in renewable energy and the Brazilian electric system at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Energy Department. Previously, Azevedo worked as an educational and sales consultant, translator, teacher and earned an internship in Health Safety and Environment (HSE) at the Natural Gas and Energy department at PETROBRAS. Read more →
Durante la última década la capacidad instalada de energías renovables no convencionales ha aumentado significativamente, y sin duda continuará aumentado. El objetivo de poder acelerar la transición energética se ha transformado en un objetivo común de todos los países de la región Latinoamericana y no solo por un compromiso con el cambio climático, además por un tema de competitividad de estas fuentes de energía y por la notoria disminución de recursos hídricos, que hoy, son los que entregan flexibilidad al sistema.
Cesar Santos is the Managing Partner at Magnetar Global Partners. Santos is an energy professional with more than 22 years of technical experience in project finance for energy assets, renewable and sustainable energy, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) sectors, business development as well as project and financial management. Read more →
Felipe is the Research Superintendent at the Center for Energy Studies at Getulio Vargas Foundation and Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has 20 years of experience in operations management; automation and continuous process improvement; and modeling. Read more →
Aniella Descalzi is an Executive and Renewable Energy Consultant. She is currently pursuing her MBA with a focus on energy markets and regulation at Fundação Getulio Vargas and holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Chile. She is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Read more →
