Solar Market Parity in Portugal, Status, Challenges and Opportunities

Renewable Energy expert with 13 years’ experience in the sector. Holds an MSc in Environmental Engineering and an MBA. Developed many activities in the industry namely consultancy, engineering, energy audits, sales management, lecturing, and M&A. In the last years, João has been focused on different business models such as Solar Pay-As-You-Go, Solar-as-a-Service, and blockchain. Recently João has started a new venture - Caparica Solaris - focused in the developing Solar PV utility projects 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.