Opportunities and Challenges Related to the Growth of Non-dispatchable Renewable Energy

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Time
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Hall
Expo Center Norte, 2nd floor
Room
Cantareira 2

The share of non-dispatchable renewables in Brazil has been growing steadily and is expected to reach 44% by 2027. The safe operation of electricity grids with growing shares of non-dispatchable renewable sources poses unique new challenges, thus creating new opportunities for large-scale energy storage.

11:00 am - 11:10 amSession Opening - Challenges and Opportunities for Large-Scale Energy Storage Applications

Sergio Jacobsen

CEO

Micropower Energia

11:10 am - 11:30 amRequirements of Operational Flexibility with Growing Participation of Renewable Sources

Tiago de Barros Correia

CEO

RegE Consultoria

11:30 am - 11:50 amInternational Best Practices for Reserve Capacity, Ancillary Services, and Energy Trading

Mauro Basquera

Technical Manager

Sungrow Power Supply

11:50 am - 12:10 pmSynergies Between Large-Scale Renewable Generation and Bess for Reserve Capacity and Other Large-Scale Applications

12:20 pm - 12:30 pmQ&A

Speakers
Speaker
Tiago de Barros Correia, RegE Consultoria

CEO

Brazil

Tiago de Barros Correia is CEO of RegE Consultoria. He is an economist, and specialist in public policy and government management with more than 14 years of experience in the Brazilian Federal Government, and MS.c. in energy systems planning. He was Director of the National Electric Energy Agency - ANEEL - from 2014 to 2018.

Speaker
Sergio Jacobsen, Micropower Energia

CEO

Brazil

Since November 2022, Sergio Jacobsen has been the CEO of Micropower Energy, a company belonging to the Comerc Energia, Siemens and Equinor Groups, which operates in the energy storage solutions segment and whose mission is to bring solutions capable of contributing to Brazil's energy transition towards a more sustainable model for the economy, the environment and society. He previously worked at Siemens for 22 years. In the organization, Sergio held the positions of Sales Manager, Smart Grids Manager and Director until becoming Vice President of Siemens Smart Infrastructure. With a degree in Electrical Engineering from Mackenzie University and an Executive MBA from ESMT Berlin, Sergio joined Micropower at a time of transformation in the electricity sector, which is demanding modernization and adaptation to new digital solutions for business evolution, with a focus on smart grids that enable the addition of more and more renewable energy sources in Brazil and around the world.

Speaker
Kleber Costa Corrêa, Eletrobras

Brazil

Kleber Costa Corrêa, MSc, is Executive Manager of Generation Pipeline Development at Eletrobras. An engineer with more than 15 years' experience in the development of renewable energy generation and power transmission projects, he has worked on various initiatives at Eletrobras, in particular prospecting for business in Central America and the Southern Cone region. He was Executive Assistant to the Engineering Board of CGT Eletrosul, Head of the Southern Cone Branch of Eletrobras and CEO of the Artilleros Wind Farm in Uruguay, and was also Head of the Central America Branch of Eletrobras, whose office was based in Panama. He holds a Master's degree in Production Engineering with a focus on renewable energies from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and an MBA in International Business from Florida International University.

Speaker
Mauro Basquera, Sungrow Power Supply

Technical Manager

Brazil

Mauro Fernando Basquera Junior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Control and Automation Engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria and an Executive MBA with a focus on Electricity Sector Business from Fundação Getulio Vargas. As the Technical Manager for Latin America at Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., he currently he leads a team that focus on the promotion, design and implementation of PV and ESS systems throughout the region.

Further Content
Speaker
Markus Vlasits, Newcharge

Managing Director

Brazil

Markus Vlasits started as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Germany and has been active in the solar PV industry for 17 years in several executive positions. In 2007-2009, he was Production Manager of crystallization and wafering at Q.Cells SE, Thalheim, Germany, where he reached a vice-presidential role in Sales Operations. Moving to Brazil in 2013, he started as CEO of Yingli Green Energy do Brasil. He teamed up with fellow executives to open Faro Energy, an investment company focusing on PV generation projects for commercial concerns, and was its Sales Director until 2018. In 2019, he was an independent consultant and helped start ABSOLAR's Energy Storage Workgroup. In 2020, founded NewCharge, an engineering company focused on energy storage projects for commercial clients in Brazil. He is also active as acts as a technical consultant and advisor for projects related to energy storage. In August 2023, he was elected president of board of directors of the Brazilian Association for Energy Storage Solutions (ABSAE). Markus also organizes energy storage events and conferences, and recently co-organized an energy storage conference panel for Intersolar South America 2021 in partnership with Solar Promotion.

Speaker
Thaís Pacheco Teixeira, EPE - Energy Research Company

Technical Consultant

Brazil

Thais Teixeira works as a Technical Consultant at EPE (Energy Research Office), where she coordinates regional interconnection planning studies, in the Transmission Department. Her fields of research and work include HVDC transmission systems, renewable energy integration and energy storage. Teixeira holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and a postgraduate degree in project management from the Pontificial Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-MG). Her most recent professional experience was coordinating the planning study that recommended a new HVDC system for the Brazilian electricity grid, which was published in 2023 by EPE. Her main previous research was related to energy storage, during her masters, which resulted in the publication of a scientific paper in na international journal. Her previous work experience includes the ONS (National System Operator) and a Project Consulting Company, where she worked with computational modeling for dynamic security assesment of power systems.

Speaker
Guilherme Nizoli, Newcharge

Consulting Services Manager

Brazil

Guilherme Nizoli is Head of Consulting Services at NewCharge, responsible for developing energy storage projects for large companies, covering regulatory, financial, and engineering structuring. He is an Electrical Engineer with an MBA in Electricity Sector Business at FGV and has extensive experience in energy storage and renewable energies. He has previously contributed to the promotion of solar energy in the Brazilian energy matrix, participated in the development of public policies, regulations, normative acts, and legal measures - including contributing to the advancement of the Legal Framework for Distributed Generation.

Speaker
Ricardo Estefano Rosa, WEG S.A.

Global Head of BESS

Brazil

Ricardo Estefano Rosa is a Production Engineer with a specialization in Renewable Energies and an MBA in Strategic Business Management from FGV. He has almost 30 years' experience in business development and energy solutions. At WEG since 2013, he was Head of Engineering until 2015 and since then he has dedicated himself to developing new businesses, always focused on the energy transition. He currently acts as Coordinator of the Storage WG at ABSOLAR, is a member of the Board of the Brazilian Association of Energy Storage Solutions - ABSAE and leads WEG's Battery Energy Storage Systems business.

Speaker
Maria Stella Andreão, BNDES - Brazilian Development Bank

Engineer

Brazil

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