Solarplaza Summit | France

Géraldine Jammy started her career in 2007 as a quantitative analyst and then as an electricity market economist at EDF. In 2013, she joined Enedis, where she was successively manager of an operation and maintenance department, in charge of regulatory affairs related to electricity market mechanisms, and now in charge of producers' connection. Géraldine is a graduate of Centrale Supélec and holds a Master's degree from ENSAE.

David is the founder and president of Green Lighthouse Development, an actor in innovation, with two specific offerings that share a forward-looking vision for the future: innovation consulting and the development of network parity solutions. Before, he was director of development at Urbasolar and Engie.

Eric completed a master's in Industrial Computing and Electrical Engineering at the University of Metz. He has major experience in management, leading teams, set up of new organizations and sales including Business Development and Account Management across retail, commercial, wholesale and manufacturing with more than 12 years dedicated to selling solar, and renewable energy products across Europe.

Pierre Parent has been working in the energy industry since 2010, when he joined Voltalis, France's leading demand response aggregator. As head of market operations and regulatory affairs, he has set up and managed the operational process of the Voltalis virtual power plant, aggregating close to 100,000 residential consumers, daily operated in real-time on multiple European energy and ancillary services markets. In 2019, Pierre co-founded ZE Energy, an Independent Power Producer focusing on hybrid, solar-plus-storage power plants. Currently counting 25 employees, ZE Energy has raised 45 M€ and operates the two first hybrid plants of their kind in continental France. Its strong ambitions are supported by a 1 GW (solar) / 300 MW (storage) pipeline of projects across France, Italy and Germany and the signature of a 150 GWh Corporate PPA. Pierre is head of asset operations and leads regulatory affairs for France.

Marceau opened the French office of Enerparc in the beginning of 2019, to develop the project development activities and supervise the ongoing constructions. After graduating in 2012 from the School of Mines in Energy engineering and from the Advanced Master “Energy Management and Marketing” from Grenoble Ecole de Management, he joined in 2013 the international business development team of Enerparc AG.Headquartered in Hamburg, the Enerparc group is an international PV expert active on the entire value chain of solar power plants, from project development and EPC to O&M and portfolio management.

Audrey Juillac is a 28 year old farmer working in the South West of France. She started her activity 2 years ago with a strong will to show that young farmers have the responsibility to contribute to the changes we need to implement in order to have a more resilient agriculture. She is an ex physicist in search of a meaningful professional activity that has a positive impact on the society. She now has 3 ha of land, all cultivated in an organic way and is currently developping an agropv plant with the help of Green Light Hous Développement

Pascal Richard graduated in applied sciences from the University of Paris 6, then in Marketing and Management of European Companies. He began his career in telecommunications in Morocco, then extended his career internationally in the Europe, Africa, Middle East zone, at France Telecom and then at Alcatel. In 2006, he joined the photovoltaic sector at Tenesol (EDF and Total) to develop the "Telecommunication" activity, mainly in Africa. In 2007, he co-founded SMA France to take over the management of the company, whose scope of responsibility includes France and French-speaking Africa. In 2021, he founded his personal holding company TotEm within which he initiated the CARBON project which he founded with 3 partners. He has acquired 25 years of experience in the industry, including nearly 10 years in the telecommunications sector and more than 15 years in the energy sector.

Sophie Mourlon, mining engineer & former student of the Ecole Polytechnique, is Director of Energy at the Directorate-General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) since September 2019. From 2002 to 2014, she held various positions within the nuclear safety authority, of which she was Deputy Director-General from 2011 to 2014, and in territorial administration at the head of the Regional Directorate for Industry, Research and the Environment (DRIRE) then as Deputy Director of the Regional Directorate for the Environment, Planning and Housing (DREAL) of Champagne-Ardenne. In November 2014, she joined the Court of Auditors, as an external rapporteur. Then, she became part of the central administration of the Ministry of the Ecological Transition in February 2018, as assistant to the general manager of development, housing and of Nature (DGALN), prior to his current functions.

Xavier Daval is president of the Solar Commission of the French Renewable Energies industry association (SOLER-SER) and Board Member of SER. Xavier is the founder and CEO of kiloWattsol. Ever since its creation in 2007 as a spin-off of an associated research laboratory of the French national research network CNRS, he led the company to become the most experienced French Solar expert and a respected European Technical Advisor in the field of photovoltaic projects with a track record exceeding 5GWp world-wide. Xavier is an Electronic engineer and former Director EMEA of a world-leading manufacturer of tools for the electronics industry. Besides, Daval is an associated teacher with ENTPE Engineering school and Lyon I University and a guest lecturer for Entrepreneurship at EM-Lyon, one of Europe’s top 10 business schools.

With more than 12 years of experience as an analyst of the solar power industry, Ms. Berg authors reports on PV markets and trends, mainly in the downstream segment, and she regularly speaks at industry events. Prior to joining what is now S&P Global, she was an R&D strategy consultant in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energies. Ms. Berg holds a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Uppsala University, Sweden. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Swedish and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

A graduate of the Institut Supérieur de l’Electronique et du Numérique, Régis Le Drézen began his career with the EDF group in 2000, in charge of protection systems for high and very high voltage lines and the RTE (French TSO) acoustics laboratory. Two years later, he joined the integrated company EDF GDF Services, where he contributed to major telecom infrastructure projects linked to the energy market deregulation. In 2011, he was appointed technical director of Smart Grid Vendée, then one of France's most ambitious smart grid projects. In 2015, he was appointed Director of Enedis in the Vendée region, and in 2018 he joined the Enedis electric mobility project, where he was in charge of preparing the future, development and innovation at the heart of a new ecosystem bringing together energy, digital and the automotive world. He was appointed General Delegate of Think Smartgrids in March 2022.

Alexandre has worked in the energy industry for over 15 years’ and is already well-connected in the renewable energy market, with developers, IPPs, investors and lenders alike, as well as with large offtakers. Alexandre holds a PhD in Finance and Law at Goethe University Frankfurt / Université Paris Dauphine.

Alexandre is a Senior Associate 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.

After a degree at the business school ESSCA Ecole de Management, Pierre Guerrier started his career in the sale of technical solutions for the building sector. He became marketing manager, sales national director and general manager, and decided to jump into the PV sector when nascent in 2009. Starting as Head of Development at Sun’R an innovative IPP pioneer in agrivoltaics & Director of Development at Sonnedix, Pierre is now Director General at SOLVEO Energies. He has been administrator of Enerplan (French solar syndicate) and is convenor of the Plateforme Verte work group dedicated to agrivoltaics.

Guy joined Andera as a Partner in 2021 to build the Andera Infra team. He has more than 15 years experience in the renewable energy sector, first as an investor (at Eolfi), then in development (Véolia) and finally as a consultant, through his asset management company, Greensolver, from 2013 to 2020.Guy started his career with EY in Canada, before joining them in France and pursuing his career at a number of North American blue chip companies. (Haagen-Dazs, Quebecor, Pepsico, Dell) then Eolfi (2007). He bought Greensolver in 2013, remaining at the helm until 2020. Since 2007 he has been directly involved as an investor or advisor in more than 50 transactions in the renewable energy sector. As an entrepreneur, he created 8 companies before joining Andera. Guy is a Canadian chartered professional accountant (CPA) and a graduate of McGill (1986) and UQAM (1987); he also studied at Stanford Executive Education. He is bilingual in French and English.

With a solid reputation in asset and project finance transactions acting for major Banks and Financial institutions, Sylvie assists many Financial Advisers and internationally based companies in organizing the most efficient debt structuring for various types of projects. She is recognized in the setting up of complex, innovative asset and project finance deals. Over her long experience, she has acted for various actors on both domestic and cross-border transactions as well as in the structuring of off-balance sheet transactions in relation to the leasing of assets and financing various investments, especially in the energy and transportation sectors. In 2017, she created La Plateforme Verte, a do-tank aimed at facilitating the dialogue between developers, funders and regulation actors in order to encourage the energy transition with capital and loans.

Ramses Struijker Boudier is a Project Manager at Solarplaza, focussing on projects in France, Agrivoltaics and Africa. In the past, he worked for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vietnam, focussing on promoting sustainable development alongside the food-water-energy nexus. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and International Relations from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a master's degree in Climate Change and Environmental Sciences from King's College London.