Solar Power Mexico 2012 :: Green Power Conferences

Realizing Mexico's Vast Solar Resource

15—16 May 2012, Mexico City, Mexico

Solar Power Mexico 2012: The Only Event Uniting the Rapidly Expanding Mexican Solar Industry

It has been estimated that solar thermal and PV electricity will account for up to five percent of Mexico's energy supply by 2030 and up to ten percent by 2050.

The Solar Power Mexico conference and exhibition aims for the first time to unite key international players in this growing industry to drive forward government support, promote financial backing and provide a platform for discussion on how the Mexican solar industry can become a global market leader.

Solar Mexico is being held as part of the Mexican International Renewable Energy Congress that will unite the leaders of the wind and geothermal industries, further granting your organisation an overview of how solar will fit into the wider picture of renewable development.

Special keynote:

Mario Molina, Nobel Prize Winner and Environmental Spokesman

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez is a Mexican chemist and one of the most prominent precursors to the discovering of the Antarctic ozone hole. He was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earth's ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs), becoming the first Mexican-born citizen to ever receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Mr Molina will deliver the keynote opening address at Solar Power Mexico 2012. Arrive early to avoid missing his insights into Mexico’s role in the future of the global environment.

Jordy Herrera, Minister of Energy, Mexico

Minister Herrera's many years of experience in Mexican energy include serving as Sener's deputy minister of energy planning and technological development, prior to which he held the role of general director of Sener's investment promotion unit.

Having worked with President Calderon since he was Energy Minister himself, Mr Herrera is a long standing member of Mexico's political scene whilst also heading up PEMEX's subsidiary PGPM.

Minister Herrera has been a professor in the economics department of Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where he received his own degree in economics

Mexican International Renewable Energy Congress- Day 1:

Mario Molina, Nobel Prize Winner and Environmental Spokesman
Jordy Herreras, Energy Minister
Francisco Acosta Arredondo, Chief Modernization Officer, CFE
Alejandro Pereza Garcia, General Director of Electricity and Renewable Energy, CRE
Luis Arias, Chief Executive Officer, Generation and Transmission, Secretary of Energy (SENER)
Arnoldo Rodríguez, Presidente Municipal de Zacatecas
Alejandro Velasco, Director of Renewable Energy, Oaxaca
David Munoz, Director, Baja California Energy Commission
Eleanore Fox, Energy Officer, U.S. Embassy Mexico City
Juan Manuel Carreras López, Director General, FIDE, CFE
Brian Schmidly, Mexico Coordinator, DESERTEC Foundation
Miguel Angel Avila Rosales, Senior Member, IEEE
Senior representative, Siemens

Solar Power Mexico- Day 2:

Roberto Tovar Chains, Deputy Manager of Renewable Energy Projects, CFE
Roberto Marcos, Country Head, Chile, Abengoa
Manuel Vegara Llanes, Director, LATAM Operations, Siliken
Nicola Melchiotti, Country Manager, Enel Green Power
Dana Younger, Chief Renewable Energy Specialist, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Jose Antonio Aguilar, Deputy General Director of Investment Bank, NAFIN
Jorge Huacuz, Non Conventional Energy Unit, IIE Electrical Research Institute
Dr. Rafael E. Cabanillas López, Project Manager, Concentrating Solar Projects, University of Sonora
Vicente Estrada-Cajigal, President, The Mexican National Solar Energy Association (ANES)
Ross Tyler, Project Director, Executive Director, UNEP SEF Alliance, Clean Energy Group
Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho, Lead Energy Specialist, Inter- American Development Bank
Dr. Mauro Valdes Germain, Solar Mapping Researcher, UNAM
Rafael Escandon, Project Development, North American Development Bank
Ramon Olivas, Senior Assocate, Emerging Energy and Environment CleanTech Fund
Ignacio Osorio, Founder and CEO, DelSol Systems
Andre von Frantzius, Solar Proejct Manager, DesMex Solar
Fernando Arriaga, Chief Executive Officer, Granite Chief
Gabriel Monti, Regional Director for Latin America, Solaria Energia
Christian Ebner, Business Development, Fronius
Nikolai Dobrott, Managing Partner, Apricum