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.

Dan E. Arvizu, Director, U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Dan E. Arvizu became the eighth Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on January 15, 2005. NREL, located in Golden, Colorado, is the Department of Energy's primary laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and development. NREL is operated for DOE by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Alliance). Dr. Arvizu is President of Alliance and also is an Executive Vice President with the Midwest Research Institute, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

Prior to joining NREL, Dr. Arvizu was the chief technology officer with CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd. Before joining CH2M he was an executive with Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He started his career and spent four years at the AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories.

In 2011, Dr. Arvizu was appointed by President Obama to a second six-year term on the National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation and the national science policy advisory body to the President and the Congress.

Mexican International Renewable Energy Congress- Day 1:

Hugo Beteta, Subregional Director, Mexico, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
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
Víctor Mendoza Salcedo, President, Regional Section, Chihuahua
Joaquín Gutiérrez Ley, Technical Director, Baja California Energy Commision
Eleanore Fox, Energy Officer, U.S Embassy, Mexico City
Juan Manuel Carreras López, Director General, FIDE
Brian Schmidly, Mexico Coordinator, DESERTEC Foundation
Miguel Angel Avila Rosales, Senior Member, IEEE

Solar Power Mexico - Day 2:

Jose Antonio Aguilar Bueno, Senior Investment Officer, IFC
Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho, Lead Energy Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
Jose Ruiz, Director, Project Development, North American Development Bank
Ramon Olivas, Senior Associate, Emerging Energy and Environment CleanTech Fund
Ander Muelas López de Aberasturi, Managing Partner, Solar Division, Grupotec
John Skibinski, Founding Partner, Socios Energeticos de Mexico Verdes
Nancy Hartosh, Vice President, Marketing and Business, Solfocus
David Moneo, Sales Director, Latin America, Isofoton
Christian Ebner, Business Development, Fronius
Stefan Parhofer, Chief Executive Officer, Gehrlicher Solar America
Nicola Melchiotti, Country Manager, Enel Green Power
Andre von Frantzius, Solar Project Manager, DesMex Solar
Ignacio Osorio, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DelSol Systems
Fernando Arriaga, Chief Executive Officer, Granite Chief
Paolo Pietrogrande, Chairman, Element Power Solar
Alvaro Lentz, Vice President, Mexican National Solar Energy Association (ANES)
Roberto Cadenas Tovar, Deputy Manager of Renewable Energy Projects, CFE
Manuel Vegara Llanes, Director, LATAM Operations, Siliken
Roberto Marcos, Country Head, Chile, Abengoa