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Antonio Alcaro

UK portfolio Manager - Operation and Maintenance / Renesola

As CEO and Technical Director at Eco-Logico, in Italy, on 2006, Antonio had experience in residential and commercial plants, primarily on photovoltaic, but also solar thermal and wind. From 2009 Antonio worked as Technical Project Manager in Large PV plants at Austrian Enviro Technologies, before in Italy, with a pipeline of 80 MWp and since 2013 in UK, at Lightsource, with an extensive knowledge of renewables markets and a professional network, spreading in all Europe. Currently Antonio Alcaro is working at Renesola UK in London as Operation and Maintenance Manager, in charge to all the ground mounted PV plants built by Renesola since 2015 and more than 1500 residential and commercial PV plants. During the last years Antonio has been responsible for the maintenance of complex project portfolios, structuring and managing the deal under all the aspects, including the data management and monitoring equipment. Before to start his career in alternative energy, Antonio graduated from Modena University, with a degree in Industrial Engineering.

Guy Auger

Chief Executive Officer / Greensolver

Guy is Greensolver’s CEO, a company he founded back in 2008 when part of the Eolfi Group. He bought Greensolver with JOHES SA Company in 2013. Guy has worked as CFO and then CEO of international groups in Europe before joining Eolfi, a pioneer of the renewable energy sector in 2008, as Deputy General Manager. Guy is a Chartered Accountant (CA), graduated from McGill and Stanford (executive education).

Debbie Brodt

Data Science and Innovation Group Manager / National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Debbie Brodt-Giles lead the Data Science and Innovation Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. For more than 20 years, Debbie has been leading web-based platform development projects with the goal of making open data accessible and reusable for the benefit of the energy community. Debbie initiated and leads the Open Energy Information platform called OpenEI.org, which is an international platform that uses a collaborative approach for linking and sharing energy data with the world. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsors OpenEI to serve as a data catalog for all open energy data developed by DOE. Debbie is also the principal investigator for several DOE Solar Programs focused on solar data and tools and catalyzing new business creation through connections to solar data and industry experts. Debbie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Marketing from California State University, Northridge.

Rostam Dinyari

Lead Data Scientist / Sunrun Inc

Tim Hickman

Technical Manager / Evoenergy

Tim is an engineer and Technical Manager at EvoEnergy, and has been working with behind the meter solar deployment for over a decade. Innovation is a key part of our success and we continually seek to differentiate ourselves by developing approaches that make commercial sense to our clients and that lead to enduring quality systems and relationships. Tim is also the founder of Polygrid who help NGOs in the developing world to reduce operating costs by installing solar PV.

Phil Napier-Moore

Programme Director, Renewable Power / Mott MacDonald

Phil Napier-Moore leads Mott MacDonald’s technical advisory work for solar and wind power in the Asia Pacific region. Supporting plant investors and lenders from the regional sector’s infancy in 2008, he has overseen technical inputs to more than 7000 MW of projects in Asia, including more than 200 plants now in operation. He has directed and managed projects for a range of multilateral agencies, national governments and a large number of private companies, working internationally on low-carbon power projects in 30 countries around the world, in particular within Asia and Europe. A Chartered Energy Engineer, he obtained his Masters of Engineering from Oxford University.

Valerio Pelizzi

Director Asset EMEA, Energy Group / Canadian Solar

Simon Pipkin

Energy Assessment Manager / REG Power Management

Simon Pipkin is the Energy Assessment Manager at REG Power Management. Starting in the renewables industry in 2003 with a small engineering R&D company focusing in wind energy Simon has since gone on to work for Gamesa and now REG. Here he has managed projects through every part of their lifecycle from landowner negotiations, planning, construction and operations. Working across the UK with a variety of projects, coupled with a desire to innovate and problem solve Simon has used this experience to continue his team’s development of in-house tools that allows REG to monitor, report and forecast across its asset management portfolio. In 2014, spotting shortfalls in the current software, Simon setup REG’s solar reporting and performance monitoring tools to allow the company, as then an owner and asset manager, to proactively manage this technology for the company.