Name: Pulse — Renewable energy event and conference by RatedPower
Start: 2023-04-19T08:00
End: 2023-04-20T15:00
Location: Palacio Neptuno

2023

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Coreso

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Andrea has been named one of the top 10 Most Influential Spanish Entrepreneurs for her work as the Co-Founder and CEO of RatedPower, a cloud-based software to help companies maximize the potential of a solar PV plant. After growing the company&rsquo;s reach, RatedPower underwent a successful merger and acquisition with Enverus in 2022. Andrea now serves as the firm&rsquo;s VP of Power and Renewables. Having shattered the glass ceiling in herself, Andrea is committed to diversity at her company; more than half the firm&rsquo;s employees are women, including many in executive positions.

Andrea Barber

VP, Power & Renewables and Co-Founder

Bernadette Johnson has a comprehensive understanding of energy market fundamentals and uses her extensive expertise to provide analytics that optimize industry decisions and investments. She currently serves as general manager of power and renewables for Enverus, leading the company's fastest-growing business unit and is responsible for business results and strategy. She originally joined Enverus as the vice president of strategic analytics, leading the integration of a new energy practice acquired from Ponderosa Advisors.

Bernadette Johnson

General Manager, Power & Renewables

As a founder of Sitemark and a passionate advocate for the solar industry, Stanislas has made significant contributions to the company's success. Currently, he is serving as the Managing Director and leading the Business Development efforts at Sitemark, playing a key role in revolutionizing the way companies interact with and manage their assets.

Stanislas Van Der Vaeren @ Pulse

Co-Founder

Stanislas Van Der Vaeren

Isemaren

Catalina is an accomplished professional with 16 years of experience in international business development, consultancy &amp; advisory, and project management in several countries; including 8 years in the renewable energy sector. She has combined her legal background and her commercial intuition to create networks of key players and build strategic alliances &amp; partnerships in the renewable energy market. Within Isemaren, she has contributed to the award and origination of&nbsp;several greenfield solar power portfolios via grid capacity tenders; having conducted an extensive research and evaluation of the mentioned tenders after the end of the Spanish moratorium of 2021, July 1st.

Catalina Bauzá

Head of Strategic Consulting

&Ouml;zer Erg&uuml;l is Group Head of Procurement with Aquila Capital and Chair of Supply Chain Sustainably workstream with Solar Power Europe. He worked for automotive companies including Toyota first quarter of his professional experience and he has been in the renewable energies sector since 2000. Prior to joining Aquila Capital in 2022 he worked as Group CPO for Lightsource BP in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he was responsible for group-wide procurement activities as well.

Özer Ergul @ Pulse

Head of Procurement

Özer Ergul

Natalia Opie has a background in energy engineering and excelled in her Master of Science in Electrical Systems. In 2019, she joined the RatedPower technical team as PV project engineer, where she now leads international customer success. She has a thorough understanding of Enverus solutions for power and energy transition clients.

Natalia Opie

Customer Success Manager

Grid interconnection injection capacity for utility-scale PV plus storage plant design

Nacho Álvarez

Senior Product Manager

Optimize Energy

With over 15 years of experience in the renewable sector, Matias has developed his career mainly in the areas of construction, operation and asset management, having also participated in project development and investments in green projects. He's Partner at Optimize Energy, a service provider specialized in risk and energy management aiming at fostering professionalization and optimal electricity sale among renewable energy producers, as well as Technical Director at Everwood Capital and Partner at Circle Energy.

Matías Gallego

Partner

Sonnedix

With over seventeen years of experience in the PV sector, my career began in 2007 as a solar module manufacturing Process Engineer spanning into the field of solar installation permitting, design, construction management, commissioning and subsequent supervision and control of solar assets. In 2012 I diversified my experience in the area of PV consulting supporting the development and management of net metering solar installations. The experience gained over the years allowed me to make the transition to the discipline of Asset Management covering the Technical and Commercial Asset Management scope of the discipline managing.  Since joining Sonnedix, back in 2017, I have evolved into the role of Head of Operations, now for Iberia, being responsible for the overall performance, operation and optimization of a 350 M&euro; revenue renewable asset portfolio.  I hold an Industrial Mechanical Engineer degree by Universidad Polit&eacute;cnica of Valencia.

Head of Asset Management

Carolina Nester

Felix is a PV engineer and software developer, specializing in the development of calculation models and algorithms. After working in an engineering firm, he joined RatedPower to lead the development of the energy and topography calculation models of the platform, with a focus on building robust engineering software. Felix is enthusiastic about all disciplines of engineering, and enjoys discussing the more nuanced aspects of both. He is also very passionate about research, which has been a constant through his career in RatedPower.

Félix Pérez

Principal Software Developer

3D energy yield calculation model in RatedPower: Progress and latest results

Christina Rentell

Senior Research Associate

Bernardino brings over two years of expertise to RatedPower, serving as Product Owner in the Product department. Previously excelling as a Customer Success Manager focusing on diverse markets where he developed a keen understanding of those market needs. Leveraging this experience, he now serves as a dedicated Product Owner, enhancing software solutions. Holding a Degree in Energy Engineering and a Master's in Industrial Engineering, Bernardino seamlessly combines technical prowess with a customer-centric approach, contributing to the ongoing innovation and advancement of renewable energy solutions.

Product Owner, Generation

Bernardino Martín

Civil Engineer with training complemented with the Executive MBA program of the IESE of the University of Navarra and a Master in Renewable Energies and Energy Market of the School of Industrial Organization (EOI). Currently serving as director in ASEALEN, Spanish storage industry association. Facing the opportunity of consolidating the regulatory processes underway in the field of storage and, at the same time, working in favor of remuneration systems that facilitate its deployment.

Raúl García (ASEALEN)

Director

Raúl García

María García (AFRY)

Principal

María García

Senior Director

Virginia Ruiz

Sr. Software Developer

Petranka Boncheva

Santos D&iacute;az is an industrial engineer with solid expertise in the electricity sector and impact investing. His experience includes working at Red El&eacute;ctrica de Espa&ntilde;a, and as an MIT-IIT Universal Energy Access Lab consultant to accelerate electrification in developing countries for both Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. He also works at Impact Bridge, combining consulting experience with sophisticated financing to generate financial returns while creating a positive social and environmental impact.
He also co-founded <a href="https://linktr.ee/ysi_energy">@ysi_energy</a>, an outreach energy platform aimed at young consumers to help them understand their utility bills and teach them the importance of critical thinking regarding industry misinformation.

Santos Díaz

Researcher

Carlos Fisch

Marina Fern&aacute;ndez Fern&aacute;ndez-Campoamor is a Service Development Engineer at Coreso (Belgium), where she brings her technical expertise to improve the European cross-border exchange of electricity, focusing on the South West Europe region. She also has research experience in Quantum Computing at E.ON Digital Technology, regarding Optimization problems applied to Energy Systems. Marina holds a Double M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the UPM in Spain and the TUM in Germany, with a focus on energy technology as well as an Honors Degree from the CDTM in Munich. Additionally, she co-founded <a href="https://linktr.ee/ysi_energy">@ysi_energy</a>, an outreach energy platform aimed at empowering young consumers to understand their utility bills and encouraging critical thinking regarding the energy industry.

Service Development Engineer

Marina Fernández

System Solutions Engineer

Nicolás Fernández-Velilla

Originally from Portugal, Isabel is an investor at Kfund where she is leading efforts in the region. As a sector agnostic early stage fund, she covers a wide range of industries but has a particular interest in agritech, foodtech, and all things that help scale the future of food. Working with startups for the past 10 years, she supported portfolio companies with growth pains and fundraising at Cherry Ventures, and more recently at Shilling Founders Fund. Prior to that, &nbsp;she spent several years running an accelerator program based in Portugal called Lisbon Challenge. Isabel holds a bachelors from London College of Communication and is currently undertaking an MBA at IE.

Investor

Isabel Salgueiro

Green Genius

For years, as entrepreneur and manager he has been associated with the energy and renewable energy industry with various experience in sales, technical consulting and business development, confirmed, among others, by implementation of the first operational installation in Poland in the Solar-as-a-Service formula and acquisition of a strategic portfolio of PV projects for the Modus Group. Propagator of the idea of sustainable development which considers economic market conditions. An expert in the field of on-site solar installations. Since 2018, responsible in Green Genius for introducing innovative "capex-free" solar solutions for business on the Polish market, and from 2021 for managing group's PV project portfolio throughout Europe.

Filip Sypko

Head of Solar

Mar&iacute;a is responsible for project development from a technical perspective, ensuring company&rsquo;s European projects fulfill all the permitting process requirements. Prior to joining Enfinity Global, she worked as Technical Director at Vector Renewables, advising on engineering and construction processes for over 3 GWs of solar projects in Europe, Latin America and Africa. Mar&iacute;a also worked for Siemens Gamesa for eight years as Development Engineer and Project Manager. Mar&iacute;a is an industrial engineer and holds a master&rsquo;s degree in Renewable Energy and Environment from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM).

María Díez

Head of Technical Development

licenciasocial.energy

Since 2005, In&eacute;s has built her career in the renewable energy sector, working across various roles within the value chain. Her experience spans manufacturing, project development, EPC and O&amp;M of grid-tied, distributed generation, and off-grid projects across Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Driven by a mission to facilitate the social acceptance of renewable energy and storage projects, she has founded licenciasocial.energy. Through in-depth analysis of local contexts and the implementation of customized strategies, she works to build community alignment at every stage of their life cycle. This approach fosters lasting consensus and creates mutual value for both companies and communities, ensuring that projects are economically viable and socially sustainable.

Inés Monroy

CEO, Founder

Navigating social risk in renewable energy projects: A social license approach

Álvaro Pajares

atlantHy

Brais has 4 years of experience in the hydrogen sector, in which he started during his studies in Stockholm. He has participated in projects ranging from the development of hydrogen hubs to the elaboration of basic and conceptual engineering for hydrogen production plants and hydrogen refuelling stations. Brais has also collaborated with companies in the development of concepts for the combination of offshore wind with hydrogen production. Committed, creative and constant, he understands that the energy transition is the greatest challenge facing our society and therefore himself.

Brais Armiño

Founder

Aurora S&aacute;ez is a Senior Consultant in DNV's Energy Systems business area. As part of DNV, she is a consultant and project manager with a focus on system flexibility, markets and regulations. She has an extensive track record on flexibility studies and projects across the whole value chain. Most recently, Aurora led a study for Smart Energy Europe on quantification of benefits of demand-side flexibility in the whole EU. In addition, she is currently the DNV project manager of the Network Innovation Competition (NIC) Project Fusion, a &pound;6m innovation project aiming to develop a local market for electricity demand-side flexibility.

Aurora Sáez

Senior Consultant Energy Markets & Strategy

Miguel &Aacute;ngel is founder and Chief Operations Officer (COO) at RatedPower. He is an expert in photovoltaic engineering. Currently serves as VP, Power and Renewables, Enverus. Prior to starting RatedPower he led more than 80 PV projects across 20 countries, totalizing more than 4GW.

Miguel Ángel Torrero

Co-Founder, VP Power & Renewables

Above

Luca Piccini is Above's Regional Manager and is responsible for managing and growing the company's presence in Southern Europe. He helps Above customers increase plant performance, manage risk, and reduce costs in the development, construction, and maintenance of their solar plants. Above is revolutionizing the solar industry by developing software, digital models and artificial intelligence to help the industry generate more solar power from data. They are at the center of the solar industry's rapidly growing digital transformation.

Regional Manager, Southern Europe

Luca Piccini

Juan Romero is founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of RatedPower. Currently serves as VP, Power and Renewables, Enverus. Juan has vast experience as project engineer and developing web models in the solar thermal sector in an international renewable energy engineering company.

Juan Romero

SmartHelio

Closely worked in the energy sectors in Europe, China and Africa, Maxine heads the business development activities of SmartHelio, a real-time fault prediction software that accelerates solar adoption globally using physics and AI. Experienced with sustainability investment and project management in the financing industry, she led projects in Kenya &amp; Tanzania to develop energy access in rural areas to empower women.

Maxine Cronier

Head of Business Development

Covadonga is an Investment Manager at Kibo Ventures, an early-stage fund based in Madrid. Prior to joining Kibo, Covadonga was Head of Growth at AGORA, an early stage live commerce startup based in London. Before that, she began her career in M&amp;A in Goldman Sachs in London. Covadonga holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London.

Covadonga García Valdés

Investment Manager

Covadonga García-Valdés

&Aacute;lvaro is a Software Developer &amp; PV Engineer with a background in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He joined RatedPower&rsquo;s Product team over a year ago, specifically the Interconnection team, where he's a key stakeholder on any AC-coupled storage, overhead line and substation-related initiative. In his current role, he is in charge of ensuring that the solutions delivered in pvDesign satisfy both the engineering and the software development requirements. &Aacute;lvaro is analytical in his approach, and is adamant on making sure his team understands the technical reasons behind every new feature.

Álvaro Benito

Project engineer and software developer

Daniel Barandalla has more than 15 years of experience in the solar PV industry as a consultant and project manager. He currently serves as a Solar Advisory Lead for UL Solutions in Europe and Latin America. He has relevant experience as independent engineer in technical due diligence processes for financing as well as for key M&amp;A transactions overseeing portfolios of operating and development Solar PV assets worldwide. Daniel holds an MSc in Renewable Energy, Electricity Generation from the UPNA, Spain and an MSc Solar Energy Engineering from H&ouml;gskolan Dalarna in Sweden.

Daniel Barandalla

 Solar Advisory Lead Europe & Latin America

Energy Communities Engineer

Blanca Barrios

Manuel Alamillo has more than 15 years of experience investing across Europe in venture and private equity. His previous investment work for Alantra Private Equity covered many technology sectors; now as an Investment Director at Klima Energy Fund, he focuses on energy transition companies. Manuel has been board member of 10 companies, and holds two post graduate degrees, in Finance &amp; Law.

Investment Director

Manuel Alamillo

Executive with 18 years in the Renewable Energy Sector, Solar Photovoltaic, Wind, Storage Solutions and Hybridization. Now I am involved at BNZ a portfolio company of Glennmont Partners from Nuveen, as Managing Director. I am leading a team focused on consolidating the company into a key player in the renewable energy sector in Europe, especially in the markets of Italy, Spain and Portugal, contributing to the global energy transition. BNZ is an independent power producer (IPP) that develops, builds, and operates solar photovoltaic projects in Southern Europe, particularly in Portugal, Italy, and Spain. During all these years I have brought a successful track record of growing business in the renewable industry.

Luis Selva

Managing Director

General Manager for Green Genius in Spain since 2019. During this time full of legislation challenges, the company has been able to establish as highly recognisable experts in greenfield development of renewable energy projects. &nbsp; Over 20 years&rsquo; experience across management, corporate finance, and M&amp;A; operational improvement; and accounting and tax. After more than 9 years with EY, spent the rest of her career working outside professional services, mainly energy and retail sectors. Worked internationally (Sydney &amp; London) for 11 years.

Loreto Luengo

General Manager

Industrial engineer with more than 16 years in the renewable energy sector. At DNV he has led for several years the wind and solar energy testing section, now dedicating his efforts to business development as Market Segment Leader in DNV for Spain and Portugal. In this role, with a focus on the development of the green hydrogen market. He is DNV's Quality Coordinator for Southern Europe, Middle East, Latin America and Africa, and a member of several committees such as IEC RE's WE-OMC SG551 and CTN 221 standardization technical committee. Yer&uacute;n has developed his professional career with an important focus on innovation and strategy as pillars in the path of energy transition. Linked to this, he has developed the role of Key Account Manager for two important companies with a very relevant role in both renewable energies and the green hydrogen sector.

Yerún Fernández

Market Segment Leader

Lhyfe

I have over 20 years of experience in business development and supply chain management in the energy sector amongst others at Vopak, Repsol and consulting. A master&rsquo;s degree in chemical engineering from Eindhoven University and refinery engineering from IFP School. I am passionate about the energy transition and sustainability and 9 months ago I decided to join Lhyfe and help drive the development of Lhyfe in Spain. Lhyfe builds and operates green hydrogen plants, using renewable energy and water to produce green hydrogen for industry and the mobility sector.

Frans Pieter Lindeboom

Country Manager

Frans-Pieter Lindeboom

Ignacio Granda is a seasoned technical sales professional working alongside the business team at RatedPower, a deep tech company that offers a cloud-based software to instantly carry out the design and engineering of solar plants and reduce energy costs, ultimately maximizing project profitability. With a background in International Business and Communication, Ignacio has previously worked as a Market Analyst for the Government of Spain in New York before transitioning to a role in Business Development. At RatedPower, Ignacio is responsible for the Francophone area, ensuring exponential growth within these markets and the development of RatedPower&rsquo;s technology.

Account Executive

Ignacio Granda

Santiago brings +15 years of experience in Solar and Wind in Europe and Latin America. His expertise spans across the whole lifecycle of a renewable project, having worked with Wind OEM, PV project developers, EPC, O&amp;M and consultancy companies. Lately, his focus has been on the technology and innovation applied to the digitalisation of the renewable energy industry. In his own words &ldquo;my passion lies in creating and leading teams that produce a transforming impact to all involved stakeholders and ultimately to society, and SaaS technology companies are the best way to make that happen today&rdquo;

Santiago Estrada

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Irene Negro

Prior to joining Matrix Renewables in 2020, Javier was Operations Manager in Smartener, managing the Construction and O&amp;M of renewable projects in Per&uacute;, Uruguay and Mexico. Previously Javier has been working in Renewables for more than 12 years, as Project Manager, Project Director and Country Manager in Uruguay, and covering various technologies such as wind, solar, and hydro. Javier holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Cranfield University, as well as an Executive Programme in Renewable Energies at Escuela de Organizaci&oacute;n Industrial in Madrid.

Javier Tirado

Head of Operations, EMEA, LatAm

Nacho graduated with a double degree in Civil Engineering + Environmental Sciences as well as a Master in Civil Engineering from the University 'Alfonso X el Sabio'. Thanks to the CRUE-CEPYME scholarship from Banco Santander, he began his professional career in GA Ingenieros, an environmental firm specialized in renewable energy. After completing the fourth year of his degree at the University of Tennessee, he began working as Asset Manager at Blue Tree, a leading independent renewable asset management firm in Spain. Shortly after, he joined Qualitas Energy to continue his career as a Senior Asset Manager. During his years in the asset management sector, he worked in the evaluation and acquisition of more than 1,000 MW in renewable energy generation assets. In November 2017, he started Fundeen along his brother Adri&aacute;n. Today the company has become the leading all-person co-investment platform in renewable energy projects in Spain. At Fundeen, he assumes the role of Managing Director and CEO, leading the company&rsquo;s long-term strategy and team.

Nacho Bautista

CEO, co-founder

Dhanisha joined SGS INSPIRE in April 2021 as a Market Analyst for Europe and Africa. Her expertise is focused on fuel product development for both diesel and gasoline vehicles across the globe, as well as forecasting the trend for new technologies in the energy sector. She has 8 years&rsquo; experience working in product development for fuels and lubricants; analyzing vehicle parc to design engine tests, assessing new additive chemistries, new trends in engine technology and fuel composition. Before joining SGS INSPIRE, Dhanisha was a Technology Analyst at bp where she led the techno-economic assessment and impact of emerging technologies to shape the strategy for business growth.&nbsp;

Dhanisha Juleemun

Market Analyst, Europe and Africa

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