Solarplaza Summit | Energy Storage Spain

Civil Engineer from Alfonso X “el Sabio” University of Madrid, Master in Renewable Energy and Energy Market from Escuela de Organización Industrial and Executive MBA from IESE Business School. He has developed his professional career in the area of infrastructure and energy, participating in civil works construction projects, renewable energy business development, electricity transport infrastructure concessions and renewable energy asset management, work carried out mainly in the Elecnor Group in the markets of Spain and Chile. Due to his career, he has experience in the complete development of projects, from their origin with the location of locations and administrative and environmental processing to their commercial operation and sale, through construction, financing, commissioning and operation. He is currently Director of ASEALEN, Spanish Association of Energy Storage, having previously held the position of Secretary General of PROTERMOSOLAR, Spanish Association for the Promotion of the Solar Thermal Industry.

Yann Dumont (1982) is an Industrial Engineer from ICAM in Lille (France). In addition, he has studied senior management at various international universities such as Georgetown University in Washington DC. He has dedicated his professional career to renewable energy, working on numerous wind, solar, biomass and wave energy projects. At the beginning of his professional career, he worked as head of CSP projects at Hidrocantábrico-EDP. From here, he went to the Solar Department at POWEO (the first French private energy company) as Director, with a special focus on promoting projects. Later, he started various businesses through the consulting firms Enya Renovables and Esyan Renovables, of which he was founder and partner. He worked for four years in photovoltaic and wind projects at Abengoa, mainly in engineering and construction, but also in the study and development of concession models (IPP). During this stage, he held various positions: vice president of the Abengoa T & I subsidiary and director of Abengoa Wind Concessions at an international level, among others. Afterwards, he was CEO of Wind and Solar at Forestalia, where he participated in the creation of a development portfolio of more than 5GW. During this period, the first financial closure with PPA of a wind project in Spain stands out, leading to the end of the development and investment decision of more than 2 GW. Currently, he is CEO and founder of Reolum Renewable Research, a consulting firm specializing in the comprehensive development of renewable energy projects. The company is founded and led by an experienced team, with a long history and recognition in the sector, whose objective is to join the concepts of profitability and sustainability in order to contribute to the energy transition in Spain. Finally, he promoted with other companies in the sector the creation of the Spanish Energy Storage Association (ASEALEN), which he presides since 2020.

Jan Willem has over 20 years of experience in the energy market and worked for some of the larger utilities. Early 2020, Jan Willem sold his previous companies Greenspread and Greencrowd to private equity concern NPM Capital. Since his departure in October 2020, Jan Willem works as an independent consultant at Stratergy. Stratergy advises funds, banks, utilities, and large consumers and producers of energy and specializes in maximizing asset value and minimizing financial risk.

Alexandre is Research Lead at Aurora, leading the French and Iberian power market modelling and analysis. Formerly expert at Elia System Operator in the European market department. Alexandre holds two master's degrees, one electrical engineer degree from the Université of Liège, and one general management degree from the Vlerick Business school.

As a member of Fluence’s Growth & Market Development team, Amir leads activities that enable new market opportunities for stationary energy storage solutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with a special focus on renewables plus storage and grid services. Prior to Fluence, he helped develop commercial battery storage solutions at RWE Supply & Trading. Before that, he was involved in research and business development in the energy sector. Amir holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in electronics and system engineering, respectively, and a PhD in mechanical engineering.

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Beatriz is a professional in the energy storage sector with a wealth of experience in transmission systems expansion and energy market analysis across Latin American countries. With six years of experience, Beatriz has demonstrated her technical expertise in assessments (such as safety) and sizing storage systems. Beatriz graduated with a degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in electrotechnical from the University Mackenzie in Brazil. She also graduated with a master's degree in Renewable Energy from the University Polytechnique of Catalunya, Spain. During her master’s, she conducted research on the implementation of solar panels in electric vehicles, which was the focus of her thesis. For over a year, Beatriz has been working at Clean Horizon as an engineer in the technical consulting and market analysis teams. Currently she is responsible for the following markets: Portugal, Spain and LATAM. Her language skills, including Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

Carol is an Executive Director within the European Project Finance team of Rabobank and responsible for the coordination of the team’s activities in Southern Europe. Rabobank is one of the leading banks in project finance globally and has been a frontrunner in financing renewable energy assets for over 20 years, with a current global commitment of c. EUR 5bln distributed over 20 countries. In respect of battery storage specifically, the team has financed over 1GW in Europe to date. Carol has extensive experience in origination, structuring and execution of renewable energy transactions across Europe, including complex portfolio and/or warehousing structures and financing on the basis of corporate PPAs and merchant revenues, and has led many of the battery storage transactions closed by the team.

PhD. MSc. Mining, Civil and Environment Engineer with 22 years of total experience on major Civil and Industrial Engineering Projects (EPC) which include: Hydropower Plants, Pumped Storage, Tunnels (NATM and TMB – EPB), Metro, High Speed Railways and Train Stations, for both contractors and consultancies.

Electrical Engineer from INSA Lyon with a Specialized Master’s Degree in New Energy Management of AMPT Lille, with over 10 years of experience in the Renewable Energy sector. At DNV, Valentin works as Principal Consultant in the Energy Market Analytics team, covering Southern Europe and Latin America Energy Markets. Additionally, he has a Global Practice Lead role for Power Price Forecast (PPF), where he coordinates the PPF activities across regions, driving innovation and promoting best practices. Prior to DNV, Valentin was Head of Quantitative Research at Antuko, where he led the areas of Market Intelligence, Market Modelling, Risk Management and Asset Management. Valentin is a specialist in Smart Grid and Energy Management with knowledge of modelling electrical transmission grid, renewable energy and storage systems. He also worked as a Research Engineer at the Lille L2EP Laboratory to develop methods and solutions for optimization of renewable energy production, storage, and consumption.

Tomás García is the lead Senior Director of the Energy & Infrastructure Advisory practice in Spain & Portugal at JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) since April 2020. In this role, he leads the team providing transactional and financial advisory services for renewable energy assets in Iberia. Prior to this, Tomás was the Managing Director of the Solar & Wind Projects business in Spain & Portugal at BayWa r.e. (2019). Prior to this role, he was the Head of Business Development EMEA, Energy Group at Canadian Solar (2017-2018). Before that he served at SunEdison as General Manager, Rural Electrification EMEA (2014-2015) and as Head of Strategy & Market Development EMEA & LATAM (2011-2014). Before that Tomás was Market Strategy Manager at First Solar (2008-2011) and a Strategy Consultant at the Monitor Group (2004-2008). Additionally, he has also worked as a Venture Capitalist, Research Scientist (doing science on solar PV materials), University Teacher and FX Trader. Tomás was a PhD student at Florida International University, earned his MSci at King’s College London and his Masters degree in Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is fluent in Spanish and English and functional in Italian.

Dr. Romain Mauger is Head of Legal Research Unit at the Iberian Centre for Research in Energy Storage (CIIAE). Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) – University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He holds a Bachelor of Law and an LLM in Environmental Law. In 2017, he completed his PhD in Law on the topic of the energy transition legal framework in France, at the University of Monptellier. Dr Mauger’s research focuses on energy law for the transition to renewable energy sources, with experience in studying the regimes for the development of renewable energy sources, of smart grid technologies (energy storage, microgrids, etc.) and of flexibility markets, among others. He participated to various international research projects funded by European (Horizon) or national (NWO – the Netherlands) agencies and regularly engaged in interdisciplinary research. In addition, he worked for more than 3 years as a wind farm developer in France before undertaking his PhD.

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Lluís is an industrial engineer graduated from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. From 2016 to 2021 he worked at the renowned R&D institute Fraunhofer ISE (Germany), where he gained professional experience in topics such as electrical and thermal characterisation of batteries, battery modelling and simulation, and implementation of innovative business models for battery storage in mobile (e.g. tramways) and stationary applications (e.g. energy communities). Lluís has also actively contributed to the development of software tools for the optimisation of energy systems, as well as real-time operation and asset management systems (EMS). In 2021 he joined One Solar as Storage and Energy Flexibility Team Lead, where he has been very active providing technical consultancy services in the field of energy storage, and promoting project development along with major IPPs and other market agents fostering the uptake of energy storage projects in the Iberian Peninsula.

After her graduation as Telecommunications engineer, Monica held management consulting positions for strategic telecommunications projects in Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the UK. In 2007, Monica became a business development manager for Direct Energie, before becoming Procurement Manager for Neoen in 2009 and Procurement Director in 2012. During her tenure, Monica was responsible for all procurement activities (wind, solar,storage and biomass) and contracted the equivalent of 1.8GW of projects. In 2017, she was appointed inaugural Managing Director of Neoen USA where she established the business. Monica is Chief Technology Officer at TagEnergy, responsible for procurement and technology assessment. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French and German.

Rafael Gómez-Elvira is Director of Public Affairs & Marketing in the Iberian Electricity Market Operator and Chairman of the EU NEMO Committee. With more than 25 years of experience in energy regulation, he is speaker in a wide range of international energy fora. Rafael holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering by UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and an executive PDG by IESE Business School.