Ricardo Barros

Job Title: Head of Country
Company: Lightsource BP
Country: United Kingdom

Ricardo Barros is Vice-President Centralized Generation of ABSOLAR's Board of Directors and also Country Manager of Lightsource bp Brazil. With passage as an executive in different companies of the sector (among them Lightsource BP, Engie and Voltalia), Ricardo worked in the last 15 years in the structuring of renewable energy projects with focus on solar and wind, in Brazil and France. He has been acting in the last 8 years as ABSOLAR board member, where he could contribute for the exponential growth of this industry in the country with the leadership of some of the strategic actions focused in centralized solar energy. With a degree in Electrical Engineering, Ricardo carried out his studies at UFCG and INSA-Lyon.

August 28, 2024Welcome & Introduction

Sessions

Session

Self-Production of Energy (Consumers Who Use Solar PV in Their Plants)

Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Expo Center Norte, 2nd floor Cantareira 3

Explore in this panel the strategies and advances made in the practice of self-production of energy. Variety and advantages, which reinforce the reliability of energy supply, contribute to ESG goals and bring more competitive solutions for energy consumers.

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Speaker

Eduardo Tobias Ruiz, Watt Capital

Managing Partner

Brazil

Eduardo Tobias is a Managing Partner at Watt Capital. He is a specialist in project investment analysis, project financing, and on mergers & acquisitions of renewable energy projects and assets in Brazil. He is a cofounder and currently the vice-coordinator of ABSOLAR's Green Hydrogen Working Group. Tobias is also a visiting Professor at FGV, teaching for its Power Sector Executive Program, and author of the books 'Investment Analysis in Utility Scale PV Projects' (2021) and 'Investment Analysis in Bioenergy Greenfield Projects' (2015). He has a BSc. in Business Administration from FGV-EAESP and a Professional Master in Bioenergy from FGV-EESP.

Speaker

Priscila Alves dos Santos, FIT Instituto de Tecnologia

Researcher & Electrical Engineer

Brazil

Priscila Santos is a researcher in the energy field at Instituto Fit. She is responsible for energy startups and applied AI and IoT training. She has in-depth knowledge of the hybrid generation industry for rural and industrial areas. Mentor of startups in the energy, automotive, agricultural and fintech segments.

Speaker

Lucas do Espírito Santo Fernandes, SENAI CIMATEC

Renewable Energy Specialist

Brazil

Lucas Fernandes is a specialist at SENAI CMATEC in the energy generation, transmission and distribution sector. He works with prospecting and developing RD&I projects in the electricity sector. He has knowledge in the areas of Renewable Energies, the Free Energy Market, Modernization of the electricity sector and electricity networks of the future. He has worked in the Subtransmission area at Neoenergia Coelba on substation projects.

Speaker

Cíntia Flesch, Grupo Cobra Brasil

Regulatory and Institutional Affairs Analyst

Brazil

Cíntia Flesch, a native of Vale do Sol/RS, holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Energy Self-Production from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, a postgraduate degree in Energy Law from PUC/Minas, and a degree in Energy Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Pampa - UNIPAMPA - campus Bagé/RS. She has been working with Autoproduction modeling on load, with the migration of consumer units with GD to the Autoproduction of Energy modality, since 2021. She currently works in the regulatory sector, as a Regulatory and Institutional Affairs Analyst, at the Cobra Brasil Group, supporting the Energy Self-Production.