Ricardo Castro

Job Title: Researcher
Company: FIT Instituto de Tecnologia
Country: Brazil

Agronomist with an MSc in Plant Physiology and a specialized focus on Agrivoltaics research, bringing over 20 years of experience in crop, fruit, and livestock production across Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania. Currently advancing Agrivoltaics research at the Flextronics Institute of Technology (FIT), focusing on optimizing system design, performance, and crop production within innovative energy systems.

August 28, 2024Development of Agriculture and Fruit Growing in Agrivoltaic Systems, Case Studies in Brazil

Sessions

Session

PV Solutions for Agri-Business

Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 02:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Expo Center Norte, 2nd floor Cantareira 4-5

Agriculture and solar photovoltaics have synergistic effects, for example: by protecting the soil from direct sunlight, PV modules reduce irrigation demand and provide shade for certain crops. These and other beneficial interactions are discussed in this session.

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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.