Ricardo Estefano Rosa

Job Title
Global Head of BESS
Company
WEG S.A.
Country
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.

August 29, 2024Experiences and Learnings From the Local Industrialization of BESS

Sessions Further Content
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
Sumara Ticom, ONS - National Electrical System Operator

Executive Advisor to the Board of Directors

Brazil

With 29 years of experience in the electricity sector, she joined the National Electricity System Operator when it was founded, where she built a solid career in technical and management positions. At the end of 2017, she took over the Executive Management of Electricity Planning at the ONS, where she is responsible for the entire planning chain for the operation of the National Interconnected System (SIN). In 2024, she took over as Executive Advisor to the ONS Planning Board, supporting the Director in the management of the country's Engineering, Electrical and Energy Planning areas. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she graduated in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She has specialization and post-graduate degrees in Power Systems from the Federal University of Itajubá, in Economic Engineering and Industrial Administration from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a MBA in Management Development from IAG Executive Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Speaker
Fernanda Delgado, ABIHV (Associação Brasileira da Indústria do Hidrogênio Verde)

CEO

Brazil

CEO of ABIHV, Brazilian Association of the Green Hydrogen Industry. Postgraduate Professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV and UFRJ. Professor of the Postgraduate Program at the Army Command and General Staff School. PhD in Energy Planning (COPPE/UFRJ), Master in Information Technology (CEFET/RJ) and in International Finance (FGV/EBAPE)

Speaker
Filipe Kaee, Quantum Participações

Regulatory coordinator

Brazil

Electrical engineer, specialist in expansion planning and regulation of the electricity sector, executive MBA in electricity sector business from FGV, currently studying for a master's degree in energy planning at Coppe/UFRJ. Regulatory coordinator at Quantum Participações, the holding company responsible for the Brookfield group's energy transmission concessions. Manager of the technical-economic analysis project for the insertion of battery storage systems into the basic grid.

Speaker
Thiago Pereira Soares, Eletrobras

Executive manager of implementation engineering amazon

Brazil

Academic background: - Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlândia-UFU in 2002 - Master's Degree in Electrical Systems Dynamics from UFU in 2003 - Executive MBA in Project Management from FGV in 2006 - Specialist in Technological Innovation Management from Unicamp in 2008 - Executive MBA in Leadership and Management of State-Owned Enterprises from Franklin Covey Business School in 2013 - Specialist in Protection and Control of Electric Power Systems from the Military Institute-IME in 2023 - PhD candidate in Protection of Electric Power Systems Associated with FACTS at IME 2024 Professional Experience: - Joined Eletrobras Eletronorte in 2007 through a public tender and worked as an Electrical Systems Protection Engineer for 17 years. - He worked at the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) from 2009 to 2016 as General Coordinator for Monitoring the Performance of Electric Systems and Substitute Director of the Electric System Monitoring Department. - From 2016 to 2017 he was Director of Engineering and Operation at Eletrobras Distribuição Rondônia - He coordinated the Modernization of the Protection and Control System for the entire 500 kV sector of Eletrobras Eletronorte; - He worked from 2022 to 2023 as Government Program Superintendent, coordinating the completion and closure of the implementation of the Light for All Program in the State of Amapá; - He is currently Executive Manager of Implementation Engineering for the Amazon at Eletrobras.

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