Solarplaza Summit | Spain

Fernando is Country Head for Spain and together with his team is driving the expansion of the company within the Spanish market. He joined the business development team at Lightsource bp in early 2012 and was the Head of Acquisitions until November 2018, when he began focusing on building our operations in Spain. Prior to joining Lightsource bp, Fernando was a Partner and Country Manager for Spain at Sonnedix, and he has also held the role of Country Manager for Spain at AES Solar. Fernando holds a B.Sc. Management Sciences degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MBA from IESE Business School.

Christina is a Senior Associate responsible for Aurora’s Iberian subscription product. She has over five years of experience working within the Energy industry, with a particular focus on Project Financing and Financial Modelling. Prior to joining Aurora, Christina worked at Bank Sabadell as Head of Energy Research within the Project Finance team, where she led the financing of many large scale projects, working with major banks, law firms and major energy companies, both in Iberia and internationally. Christina graduated from the University of Southampton with a BSc in Mathematics with Spanish (Hons), and holds further qualifications in Big Data and Financial Modelling.

Since 20 years Florian Edler is involved in the photovoltaic industry. With an engineering background he started in an internationally active system integrator and gathered first experiences in the Spanish market between 2002 – 2006. In 2012 he joined Enerparc and since 2017 he is - based in Madrid - responsible for its activities in Spain focusing on development, implementation and operation of large photovoltaic power plants.

After eight years working in BayWa r.e. as Project Manager for Spain, UK and Japan, in 2019 Juanjo Álvarez was designated as Head of PV Development and Project Management for Spain and Portugal. Since then, Juanjo has been responsible for the coordination of BayWa r.e.’s PV team in the origination, development and execution of utility scale PV projects in the Iberian Peninsula. During this time, the team has managed to realize over 400 MW of projects, from the project development phase to financial closing and sale to third party investors. He has also gained valuable experience in the M&A side of projects, sourcing new sites for BayWa r.e.’s project pipeline. Before joining BayWa r.e. Juanjo started his career in renewables working for Solon Energy GmbH, where he gained significant knowledge in PV project development with a focus on the Spanish and Italian markets. Mr. Álvarez graduated in Law at the University of Oviedo in Spain where he also earned his Masters in Business Administration, and finished a post-graduate program on China studies at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

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.

Miguel Marroquin is the founding partner and Managing Director or Our New Energy, an energy services and consulting company with extensive track record in the structuring, origination and negotiation of market-parity PPAs and over 2.5GW in transactions since 2017. Miguel brings to Solarplaza a breadth of experience in structuring complex transactions in most energy commodities and across the European geography.

Federico de la Hoz García, Senior Advisor at Sonnedix, has more than 37 years of experience in the energy sector, both nationally and internationally. He spent a large part of his professional career at Iberdrola Group with increasing responsibilities in the technical, management & institutional areas. On behalf of Sonnedix, he participates in the Board of Directors and committees of the Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF). During his time at Iberdrola, Francisco was a member of several Boards of Directors and Management Committees such as BBE, Elcogás, Central Térmica de Aceca or foundations such as Atapuerca, Energía sin Fronteras, Miguel Delibes or Víctimas del Terrorismo, among others.

Laura Ojea, Graduate in Journalism (Complutense University of Madrid) and Master in Economic Information. She is specialized in energy and environment. She started as an economic journalist in digital media such as Invertia or Finanzas.com. She worked at the radio station Intereconomy and the magazine Actualidad Económica.After that, she worked at Greenpeace press department in the Energy, Climate Change and Nuclear campaigns. She has been editor-in-chief of El Periódico de la Energía and now writes about energy and sustainability at El Español / Invertia.