Hall A - Exhibition Floor
CONGRESS PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY MARCH 4TH, 2020

• Alfonso Romo, President Lopez Obrador’s Chief of Staff (invited)
• Leopoldo Rodríguez Olivé, President, AMDEE
• Ramón Fiesta, President, GWEC Latin America
• Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary, OLADE
• Manuel Rodríguez Gonzalez, Presidente of the Energy Commission, Cámara de Diputados
• Paul St. Amour, Vice Presidente Latin America, Tarsus México

Master of Ceremony: José Navarro Meneses, General Director, Tarsus México

An integral part of the 2030 Agenda includes commitments such as increasing the proportion of renewable energy in the energy matrix, promoting inclusive industrialization and sustainable technology, as well as incorporating climate change measures to reduce emissions.

This session will analyze the collaboration between private initiative and public sector within the wind sector in Mexico, as well as specific strategies to achieve in the next ten years, the achievement of the SDGs in line with the National Development Plan.

• Leopoldo Rodríguez, CEO, AMDEE
• Ramón Fiestas, President, GWEC Latin America
• Luis Guillermo Pineda Bernal, Commissioner, CRE
• Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights (invitada)

Moderator: Miguel Ángel Alonso, General Director, ACCIONA Energía México

To understand where and what will be the role of wind energy in the coming years, as well as the new mechanisms that will allow private companies to contribute to the diversification of the Mexican energy matrix.

This panel will analyze the guidelines to be followed in the coming years for the integration of renewable energies and the fulfillment of international commitments.

• Sergio Saldaña Zorrilla, Head of the Undersecretariat of Electricity, SENER
• Rubén Flores, Independent Advisor, CFE
• Jorge Gutiérrez Vera, General Director of Electric Power, Grupo BAL
• Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) (invited)

Moderator: Gerardo Pérez Guerra, General Director, EDF Renewable Energy

The development of wind energy projects is not reduced to the benefits for investors and for clean energy consumers. It also generates important positive externalities in the communities where they are located. Gradually, the sector and communities have consolidated a long-term rapport, with respect and strengthening of local culture and customs.

This panel will analyze the economic impacts of wind projects as well as the challenges and different models of linkage that companies promote, respecting the original culture, conservation of languages, as well as the development and promotion of jobs and sustainable economic activity.

• Jesarela López Aguilar, Director of Analysis and Subsystem Management, INEGI
• Saron Aurelia Salinas, Responsable del CSV & Sustainability O&M Wind Technology, Enel Green Power Mexico
• Carlos Salas, Director of O&M Wind, Enel Green Power Mexico
• Gavin Rennie, Partner, Latam North Power & Utilities Leader, Global Emerging Markets Lead for P&U, EY
• National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI)*

Moderator: Guillermo Arredondo, Deputy Director Community Development, Grupo México

How to ensure the fulfillment before and after the development of wind projects the due diligence along with the communities, without neglecting the guiding principles of human rights of the UN.

This session will provide the key mechanisms that will allow the orientation of guidelines so that communities and companies can work with common objectives through their benefits, as well as the implementation of actions that guarantee the sustainability of the project and respect for human rights during its shelf life.

• James Anaya, Dean and University Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Law School
• Carlos F. Rodríguez, Partner Area Energy, Wöss & Partner
• Héctor A. Garza, Member and Partner, Ritch Müller

Moderador: Felipe de Jesús Torres, Director of Business and Human Rights Program, CNDH

The shelf life of a wind turbine must include environmental impacts and its mitigation, but what does the repowering of a park imply? How the wind turbines are replaced out of the market? How are impacts mitigated during project development and operation?

These and other topics will be analyzed by experts in this panel.

• Juan Manuel Torres Burgos, General Director of Environmental Impact and Risk, Semarnat
• Luis Alfonso Muñozcano, Advisor
• Gabriel Bustamante, Partner, V&A Ambiental y Social

Moderador: Rodrigo Quijano, Environmental Area Director, CIIJA

Hall A - Exhibition Floor
CONGRESS PROGRAM

THURSDAY MARCH 5TH, 2020

In recent months, a discussion panel about Energy was installed, as a space for dialogue - quiet and open - between the public and private sectors, to define strategic projects that will enhance the well-being of all Mexicans. In a spirit of this openness to dialogue and collaboration, the rules that prevail in all the energy matrix industries, particularly in wind energy, can be clearly and predictably outlined.

In this session, different public and private participation schemes will be analyzed by setting a discussion panel to reach agreements that benefit everyone and, above all, Mexico.

• Gerardo Cervantes, Energy Commission, CCE
• Ulises Neri, General Director of Promotion of Productive Chains and Investment, Secretaría de Economía

Moderator: Pablo Gottfried, Business Development Director, Pattern Energy Mexico

The wind industry in Mexico will conclude in 2019 with more than 6,000 MW of installed capacity, a historical figure that shows the capability of this sector, both in terms of sustainability and affordable energy, as well as investment, job creation and new businesses. The wind sector could only contribute annually with 16 billion pesos to GDP in Mexico.

This panel presents the vision and opinion of the CEOs who face these challenges day by day. They will analyze the panorama of the industry and its forward-looking vision for 2020, identifying opportunities and challenges for companies in the sector, as well as the elements to be taken into account for their business strategies, investment plans and new projects.

• Jack Weisz, Director for GE Renewable Energy in LATAM
• Albert Sunyer, Managing Director México, Nordex Group
• Mehdi Hadbi, Sales Manager Onshore for Latin America, Siemens Gamesa

Moderator: Ramón Fiestas, President, GWEC Latin America

The power purchase between private companies and manufacturers is a mechanism that reduces the cost of power supply to large consumers.

In this panel, experts will analyze different contracting schemes between individuals, as well as the elements necessary to promote them, within the framework of clear rules, adequate conditions for market growth and legal certainty of investments.

• Irene Espinola Campos, Renewable Energy Global Manager, Grupo BIMBO
• Jeff Pavlovic, Director, Bravos Energía
• Antonio Noyola, , Ex-President, Asociación de Comercializadores de Energía

Those municipalities with a potential for wind farm installation have the power to directly charge operating rights. There is no homologation of rights collection, so the municipalities set up a Revenue Act according to disparate reasoning of a region in the same state and charges that hinder the viability of clean energy projects.

In this session, the experts will analyze proposals to standardize municipal charges, as well as success testimonies in which local governments have earned relevant income without slowing down investment in their localities.

• Jaime Guerra Pérez, Secretary of Economic, Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza
• Christopher Ávila, Deputy Director of Government and Institutional Relations, Grupo BAL
• Pedro Goncalves, , EDF Renewables México
• Benigno Villarreal, General Director, Vive Energía

Moderator: Rafael Burgos, Director of Institutional Relations, ENEL Green Power México

The financing of wind energy projects is undergoing a major transformation in the Mexican market. Increasingly, it is moving from financing to development banks to financing commercial banks. Development banks have changed their objectives and policies for commercial banks to take a leading role, limiting the private projects they support.

This session will analyze where development banking is going, what can be done and how the profiles of the actors participating in the market have changed, as well as the emergence of new sources of financing that have proved very successful in other countries.

• Marian Aguirre, Director of Financing for the Energy Sector, Bancomext
• Sophie Brossard, Corporate Coverage Director, BNP Paribas
• Ary Naïm, Country Manager en México, IFC en México
• Carlos Rojas, Director of Processes and Programme of National Content Unit, Secretaría de Economía

Moderator: Adrián Katzew, CEO, Zuma Energía

• Ruben Chaer, Technical and National Dispatch of Loads Manager at the Electricity Market Administration of Uruguay (ADME)

Moderator: Ramón Fiestas, President, GWEC Latin America