Paulo Sehn

Job Title: Director of Energy
Company: ABIAPE - Associação Brasileira dos Investidores em Autoprodução de Energia
Country: Brazil

Paulo Sehn holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, along with postgraduate studies in Law, Political Science, and Liberalism. He has nearly ten years of experience in the Brazilian electricity sector, specializing in regulation, market design, and energy policy. He currently serves as Energy Director at the Brazilian Association of Energy Self-Producers (ABIAPE), where he actively participates in regulatory and legislative discussions concerning the electricity market, representing the interests of self-producers before the sector's main institutions. His areas of expertise include electricity market regulation, infrastructure expansion, security of electricity supply, the energy transition, energy storage, and the improvement of Brazil's regulatory framework for the power sector.

August 27, 2026Large Consumers, Data Centers, and Telecom: How Energy Storage is Used in Energy-Intensive Sectors

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Session

Large Consumers, Data Centers, and Telecom: How Energy Storage is Used in Energy-Intensive Sectors

Thursday, August 27, 2026, 9:00am–10:30am

2nd floor Cantareira 2

Energy-intensive sectors are increasingly seeking solutions to reduce costs, enhance reliability, and ensure greater predictability in electricity supply. This session will discuss how battery energy storage systems can be used by large consumers, data centres, telecommunications companies, and self-generation projects. The panel will address sizing criteria, actual use cases, economic and operational benefits, and the challenges of integrating BESS into the energy strategies of businesses that depend on continuous, secure, and competitive power supplies.