Solar Market Parity in Portugal, Status, Challenges and Opportunities

Marco has eighteen years of international experience in the management of assets, and operation and maintenance throughout various industries, including seven years in the solar industry. He has been paving his career path towards full asset management services since beginning his career with ABB, integrating its full-service team for industrial assets.Following this, Marco worked at Transdev-Veolia, focused on business and asset management for Light Rail networks in Europe. In 2010 he became founder and global Head of Martifer Solar´s O&M and Service Business, driving the strategic direction while leading a team of more than 100 employees, where he became Executive Committee Member as the representative of O&M and, accumulated with the responsibility of leading the EPC global business in 2015, until leaving the company in 2017. Martifer Solar operated in more than 20 countries as a global reputed Developer, EPC turnkey provider and one of the most relevant O&M Global Service providers for Solar assets.In 2018 he co-founded and integrated as General Manger the company MTX Solar - a provider of innovative solutions and services for the players of the solar industry, with own competences for the whole chain of value of Solar, present in two continents.Marco received his MSC in Electrical Engineering and completed an Executive MBA in Management from University of Porto Business School/IE Madrid. He speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish, with a working proficiency in the French language.

João Garrido is an environmental engineer with a degree and a master's from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He is also Master in Business administration from AESE/IESE Business School. He has been working in the renewables sector since 2005, with special emphasis on solar energy. He has held various positions in this industry such as engineer, sales, solar panel manufacturing, energy audits and lecturing. In 2018 he created Caparica Solaris whose main activity is the development of utility-scale projects. He is also a consultant for the European Commission, namely the Innovation Fund.