Solarplaza Seminar | BESS Portugal

Agustín Seseña Carrillo is a Madrid-based energy professional with over a decade of experience in power markets, structured products, and renewable energy investment. He combines an engineering background with deep financial expertise, he has built a career at the intersection of energy market analysis, commercial strategy, and the energy transition. Agustín began his career as a Process Engineer at ISOLUX CORSAN, working on bids for thermal and combined cycle plants. He then joined Enérgya-VM, where he spent six years in a variety of roles, most notably as Head of Structured Products, where he pioneered participation in Ancillary Services with renewable assets in Spain. From 2023 to 2026, Agustín worked as Senior Power Markets Analyst at Renewable Power Capital, supporting the firm's European BESS, Wind and Solar portfolio. He now serves as Regional Manager for Iberia at Capalo AI. Agustín holds a degree in Energy Resources Engineering from the Escuela de Minas y Energía at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and an Executive Master in Quantitative Finance from Afi Global Education.

Ricardo has a degree in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. His professional experience started in the water heating and climatization fields, sizing projects for domestic and industrial usage. Later, he worked in innovative storage and flexibility projects, while conducting a pioneer case-study to evaluate the potential of the vehicle-to-grid technology. In 2022, he joined the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association (APREN) as a renewable energy policy and market intelligence analyst, where he has been developing work in the renewable energy sector, advising members and stakeholders, and following the lates policy updates, with main focus on green hydrogen, offshore wind, storage. the electricity market design, among others.

Gonçalo Ferreira is Founding Partner and CEO of Navega Partners, an independent clean-energy advisory firm based in Porto. Navega advises developers, investors and energy-intensive buyers on the structuring and negotiation of long-term offtake, and on the commercial strategy behind storage and renewable assets. Gonçalo brings two decades in European power markets, across the utility, IPP, advisory and trading sides of the industry. He spent over a decade at EDP and EDP Renewables, moving from corporate risk to energy management and global procurement (including procuring EDP's first battery asset in Spain, 2017), followed by renewable-energy advisory, before leading renewables origination for Iberia at Engelhart, where he structured PPA, route-to-market and BESS tolling and optimisation deals. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics (Nova SBE), a Postgraduate degree in Applied Econometrics (ISEG), and an Executive MBA (IESE). His work is dedicated to advancing the commercial, financial and analytical dimensions of frontier energy offtake, spanning PPA structuring and negotiation, energy procurement, and the analytical pricing of BESS revenue, developing the models and commercial structures that make PPA and BESS offtake bankable.

Rosemary is a Lead Consultant at Clean Horizon with a strong technical and analytical background in the energy storage sector. Her expertise focuses on the profitability assessment of storage projects and conducting in-depth market analyses across various European countries. She specializes in dimensioning energy storage projects using optimization models to dispatch assets effectively on energy and ancillary services markets. Rosemary holds an engineering degree from Institut d'Optique Graduate School and a Master of Science in physics from Imperial College London, combining her academic foundation in science and engineering with practical commercial and regulatory insights to support project developers and investors.

Eurico is a Project Manager for Energy Storage at Galp, with more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry, spanning downstream refining, innovation, and the development of projects that have successfully evolved into business ventures. Over the past six years, he has focused on utility-scale energy storage and flexibility technologies. Throughout his career, Eurico has led and contributed to a variety of innovation initiatives aimed at improving energy efficiency, working closely with multidisciplinary teams and diverse stakeholders. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico.