Adeus Licensing Risk 👋 Accelerating Portuguese PV Development

Ana Margarida Magina is an environmental engineer with +10 years of experience, the last 6 dedicated to technical coordination of projects, management of multidisciplinary teams and project management of different types of environmental studies. Margarida Magina joined the company in 2008, after completing her Masters in Environmental Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. She was Team Leader & Project Director from 2017 to 2019 and has recently been appointed the Head of Environment & Climate Change at Quadrante Group. As a consultant and project leader, she has participated in large-scale projects at a national and international level, with a strong strategic component mainly related with ENERGY, WATER RESOURCES and CLIMATE CHANGE. Key areas of specialization include Planning (Plans and Programs), Analysis and Evaluation of Environmental Impacts, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Sustainability & Climate Change. The main countries of operation are Portugal, Angola and Mozambique

Miguel Luz is a civil engineer with +8 years of experience in licensing processes in Portugal and abroad, having worked as a structural engineer, team coordinator and project manager in a range of projects that go from hospitals and water treatment plants to the current renewable projects. He graduated with an MSc in Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in 2013 and he is a senior member of Ordem dos Engenheiros. His responsibility is to fully develop Akuo’s portfolio in Portugal, including the coordination and communication with all the stakeholders, in order to achieve the Environmental, Electrical and Construction licenses, both in solar and wind projects. He is also coordinating the Agri‑energy projects, a key area for Akuo in the other regions, that is now moving forward in Portugal.

Marco has eighteen years of international experience in the management of assets, and operation and maintenance throughout various industries, including seven years in the solar industry. He has been paving his career path towards full asset management services since beginning his career with ABB, integrating its full-service team for industrial assets.Following this, Marco worked at Transdev-Veolia, focused on business and asset management for Light Rail networks in Europe. In 2010 he became founder and global Head of Martifer Solar´s O&M and Service Business, driving the strategic direction while leading a team of more than 100 employees, where he became Executive Committee Member as the representative of O&M and, accumulated with the responsibility of leading the EPC global business in 2015, until leaving the company in 2017. Martifer Solar operated in more than 20 countries as a global reputed Developer, EPC turnkey provider and one of the most relevant O&M Global Service providers for Solar assets.In 2018 he co-founded and integrated as General Manger the company MTX Solar - a provider of innovative solutions and services for the players of the solar industry, with own competences for the whole chain of value of Solar, present in two continents.Marco received his MSC in Electrical Engineering and completed an Executive MBA in Management from University of Porto Business School/IE Madrid. He speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish, with a working proficiency in the French language.