Solarplaza Summit | Sustainability & Circularity

Leticia is a legal professional with over a decade of experience in complex banking transactions, regulatory analysis, and sustainable finance. As the Director of Sustainable Finance Advisory at Sustainable Capital Group, she leads experts in advising companies and investors on sustainability disclosures, emphasizing the application of the EU Sustainable Finance regulation. Leticia possesses profound knowledge of SFDR and EU Taxonomy, using regulation to leverage the impact of both companies and investors. Prior her focus on sustainable finance, she garnered over 5 years of experience in diverse banking operations both in Brazil and in the international context, including mergers & acquisitions, project finance, capital markets, and debt/corporate restructuring.

-

Manuella Appiah is a business and human rights expert leading the ESG strategy development and implementation of Sunrock. Sunrock is a large-scale ground, water and rooftop solar assets developer and energy producer. Prior to her appointment at Sunrock, she headed a team of (senior) policy officers at the Dutch Social and Economic Council that was responsible for facilitating multi-stakeholder agreements. These agreements supported and monitored extractives sector companies’ compliance with international ESG guidelines in their supply chains. She is particularly knowledgeable about the operationalisation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. She has in the past also implemented projects for international institutions like the World Bank and the International Labour Organisation.

Andrea Mungai is currently in charge of integrating Sustainability in the Supply chain of Enel Green Power following the Sustainability Ecosystem Unit strategy which is addressed to the extended value chain of Renewable Energy involving Suppliers/Contractors and PPA Partners. He is also chairing the WG on Circular Design of the Global Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Graduated in Chemical Engineer at Pisa, he works the Enel Group since 2010, before joining the Sustainability unit in Enel Green Power in 2018, he was responsible of supporting Enel thermal fleet on chemical and process issue of the Flue gas and treatment water plant.

Daniela Ariolli is part of the Italian R&D department at BayWa r.e. and she is in charge of the circular economy activities of the ongoing H2020 project TRUST-PV. She holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, an Erasmus Mundus program jointly operated by the Central European University (Hungary), the Lund University (Sweden), the University of Aegean (Greece) and the University of Manchester (United Kingdom). Her master thesis focused on circular photovoltaic economy in Europe. She has over 15 years of experience in the sustainability sector, working in multinational companies such as Ticket (Edenred group), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ArcellorMital, where she specialized in environmental audits, due diligence, preparation and assurance of Sustainability Reports (GRI), environmental management systems (ISO 14001), solid waste management, circular economy, greenhouse gas inventory and social and volunteer projects.

Haseeb is a working professional who has been associated with the energy sector for about 7 years He holds master's degrees (double degree joint master program) in Sustainable Energy Technology (SET) from the Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands and from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden with a specialization in solar energy and energy system modelling. Since 2018 he has been working in the renewable energy sector and fulltime dedicated to solar projects in the Netherlands and abroad. As a Solar consultant and project manager at DNV Haseeb has been supporting the customers with the services such as technical due diligences, owner's engineering, conceptual design studies and bankable energy production assessment and decommissioning cost estimation as a technical expert and project manager. Before joining DNV, he worked at Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) as a researcher and in an EPC solar company as a solar engineer.

Perine Fleury is co-founder of Biosphere Solar, a start-up based in the Netherlands. With an open-source, fair, and modular approach, Biosphere Solar is working on the next steps in solar panel designs. Perine is a researcher in circular systems, currently writing her Master Thesis at the TU Delft and Leiden University on open-source hardware and the sustainability of the (solar) energy transition. Her background in activism, project management, and local plastic recycling systems, has made her dedicated to bringing about a sustainable and fair future.

Hsin-Hsin joined ROSI as commercial engineer in 2021. Hsin-Hsin holds three master’s degrees in materials science engineering (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan), energy engineering (Universitate Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain), and sustainable energy technology (Eindhoven University Technology, the Netherlands). She also has experience in life cycle assessment, particularly for end-of-life PV module recycling process. Hsin-Hsin has engineering background but also has a heart for interactions with people in the sustainable energy field that drives innovation towards real implementation. Hsin-Hsin is in charge of market development and environmental assessment at ROSI.

Tomaso Charlemont graduated from the Technical Naval Institute (Genoa, Italy). He is an executive with over three decades of experience in Business Development and Supply Chain. After more than 20 years in the fields of data communication, he embraced a second career in renewables in 2008. Over the past 13 years Tomaso developed and consolidated his experience in this latter field of activity joining PV inverter OEMs Satcon and Chint Power Systems, WTG manufacturer and EPC Vergnet and British renewables developer RES. More recently, he joined BayWa r.e. where he coordinates the development of the Solar PV Revamping and Repowering business across the EMEA Region.

Driven by the desire to turn the solar industry into a circular economy, Fridolin Franke founded SOLAR MATERIALS together with Jan Bargel and Jan-Philipp Mai. The three met at TU Braunschweig in 2020, where Franke studied industrial engineering and combined their knowledge on business operations, engineering skills and over a decade of market knowhow. SOLAR MATERIALS has specialized in the recycling of solar panels by developing its own patented recycling process in which 98% of the raw materials, including silicon and silver, are recovered.

Active on industry association management & development. An expert in circular economy (Policy - Regulatory - LCAs), EU law (environmental, internal market, competition and international trade law), advocacy, project management, sustainable finance and industry-related issues with a strong expertise in the fields of raw materials & downstream industries.

Thomas Sauer is the President & CEO of EXXERGY GmbH. The focus of this internationally oriented consultancy firm is on the energy, special raw materials and specialty chemicals. In 2009, he leveraged EXXERGY Green Power Holding GmbH into a group dedicated to the development, implementation and operation of power plants in the field of renewable energies. In addition, in 2010 he launched NEXXERGY Green Power Trading GmbH, a trading platform for components for the renewable energy sector. Thomas C. Sauer is a member of the Leadership Council of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) in the U.S. and a member of the Economic Council of the CDU. His specific expertise lies in the energy, aviation, chemical engineering and specialty materials market segments. He obtained a masters degree from the University of Karlsruhe as a result to his studies at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Karlsruhe (TH).

Originally from Brazil, Lorena Nieuwenhoven completed a double major degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2019. She then deep-dived into the area of renewables and sustainability, helping expand the penetration of solar energy in the Iberian markets through her work as a Project Manager for Solarplaza. Apart from her work in the Spanish and Portuguese markets, Lorena has also spearheaded topical conferences related to Green Hydrogen and Hybrid Renewables.