Storage: What can we Learn from Chile and the USA?

Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Time
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Hall
Centro Citibanamex
Room
Sala D - Piso de Exposición

Although the potential for electrical energy storage is as high as that of the power generation from solar and wind energy in Mexico, the development of this market depends on the existence of an adequate regulatory framework. In this session, the key factors of the regulatory models of Chile and California, considered as success stories, will be presented to identify aspects that can be considered as references for the case of Mexico.

05:00 pm - 05:20 pmThe Chilean Experience

Teresita Vial Villalobos

Director of Energy and Projects

ACU Abogados

05:20 pm - 05:40 pmThe Californian Experience

Brad Heavner

Policy Director

CALSSA

05:40 pm - 06:00 pmDiscussion & Q&A

Patricia Tatto

Miembro de Consejo Directivo

MERM

Speakers
Speaker
Teresita Vial Villalobos, ACU Abogados

Director of Energy and Projects

Chile

Lawyer from Universidad Diego Portales, expert in electricity regulation and development of energy projects. She has a diploma in Environmental Law, Energy and Natural Resources, in Administrative Authorisations and Permits, in Regulation and Electricity Market, and in Administrative Law. She is a lecturer in the Diploma in Regulation and Electricity Market at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the USACH, in the Solar Academy course at the Faculty of Business of the Adolfo Ibáñez University, and in the Diploma in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development and Development of Natural Resources Projects, both at the University of Chile. Between 2020 and 2022 she was director of the Chilean Solar Energy Association.

Speaker
Patricia Tatto, MERM

Miembro de Consejo Directivo

Mexico

Law Graduate from the Universidad Iberoamericana with studies in human rights from Birbeck University in the UK, she has dedicated her career to developing and promoting the renewable energy industry in international energy markets, as a technical advisor and business guide in the creation of strategies for the industry in new markets. Director of Ata Mexico and Central America, she advises the entire value chain on the successful implementation of large-scale renewable energy projects. She founded and is the current president of Mujeres en Energía Renovable México AC, a non-profit organization across the renewable energy sector, with the purpose of empowering women in the field of renewable energy in LATAM.

Speaker
Brad Heavner, CALSSA

Policy Director

U.S.

Brad has twenty-five years of clean energy advocacy experience with state and national organizations in the U.S. He is the author of dozens of research reports written for policy campaigns across the country. He has led initiatives for limits on existing coal-fired power plants, low-emission vehicle standards, greenhouse gas reduction frameworks, renewable energy mandates, and many other clean energy policies. He has been in his current position for ten years, where he leads the policy work for California's customer-sited solar industry on net metering, rate design, interconnection standards, and other issues.

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