Advantages of Hybrid PV Power Plants

Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Time
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Hall
ICM München
Room
Room 14 A

Hybrid power plants can help overcome the limits of flexibility of renewable power generation sources. As solar and wind power are fairly complementary, combining them enables developers to extend their services. And when neither the wind blows nor the sun shines using solar and wind power together with other technologies, such as hydropower or battery storage, even makes a renewable energy supply around the clock possible.

This session will discuss:

  • The concept of hybrid solar power plants
  • Opportunities and challenges for energy supply around the clock
  • Legal frameworks and technical boundary conditions for hybrid solar power supply

11:00 am - 11:05 amWelcome & Introduction

Jenny Chase

Lead Solar Analyst

BloombergNEF

11:05 am - 11:20 amRenewable Hybrid Power Plants - The New Normal!

Igor Ljubenkovic

Vertical Development Manager

Siemens AG

11:20 am - 11:35 amExperiences With Hybrid Solar Projects in Innovation Tenders

Felipe Narbona

Team Leader Hybrid Energy and Storage

ABO Wind AG

11:35 am - 11:50 amInnovative Hybrid Renewable Projects in Spain

Rodrigo Álvarez

Business Development Director

Statkraft

11:50 am - 12:05 pmLearning From India's Round-The-Clock Renewables Project Initiative

Subrahmanyam Pulipaka

CEO

National Solar Energy Federation of India: NSEFI

12:05 pm - 12:30 pmPanel Discussion

Speakers

Speaker

Felipe Narbona, ABO Wind AG

Team Leader Hybrid Energy and Storage

Germany

Felipe Narbona is a seasoned engineer with over 13 years of experience in business development, energy markets analysis, and project management of renewable energy projects. He graduated as a Civil-Industrial Engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile, and later pursued a Master's degree in New Energy Technologies from Technische Universität Berlin. He started his career as an entrepreneur before moving to the LNG industry in Chile. Felipe then transitioned to the renewable energy industry in Germany, convinced of the necessity of achieving more greener ways of meeting our energy demand. In 2018, Felipe joined a PV-EPC company based in Berlin for 3 years, before joining ABO Wind in 2020 to develop and install one of the first Hybrid PV+BESS projects in Germany. As a Team Leader of the Hybrid Energy and Storage department in ABO wind, Felipe leads the technical and economic development of hybrid PV-Wind power plants, also combining renewable technologies with Storage. Throughout his career, Felipe has worked on a number of topics including: technical-economic project evaluation; planning, procurement, and construction of PV-Storage projects; financial simulations; energy market analysis; and international team management.

Speaker

Rodrigo Álvarez, Statkraft

Business Development Director

United Kingdom

With a degree in Industrial Engineering, Rodrigo Álvarez has been linked to the renewable energy sector throughout his career, for almost 20 years. He has been always dedicated to renewables and new energies, worldwide, working in some of the leading utilities in Europe. He is currently business development director at Statkraft, taking responsibility of all new developments in Spain, where the Company is successfully increasing its footprint in the country, contributing to renew the way the world is powered.

Speaker

Subrahmanyam Pulipaka, National Solar Energy Federation of India: NSEFI

CEO

India

Subrahmanyam Pulipaka is the youngest Chief Executive Officer of National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI). NSEFI is India's largest umbrella body for Solar energy ecosystem which works in a complementary manner to realize India's ambitious Solar goals and represent the Indian Solar industry. He is also the Chair of Renewables in Agriculture Working Group at IRENA Coalition for Action and has also been appointed to UNDP Energy Governance External Advisory Group Member. Recipient of BRICS young scientist Award 2018, Subrahmanyam also specializes in Solar module reliability and has published scientific articles across various internationally acclaimed journals.

Speaker

Jenny Chase, BloombergNEF

Lead Solar Analyst

United Kingdom

Jenny Chase is an analyst with BloombergNEF's global Solar Insight Service. She joined BNEF mid-2005 and launched the Solar Insight Service in early 2006, and ran the team from Bloomberg's Zurich office until late 2022. She then stepped down from management and continues to write about and analyze the solar industry as part of the team. Jenny is the author of a book, Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon, published by World Scientific Publishing in 2019. She holds a BA in Physical Sciences and an MSci in Physics from the University of Cambridge, England, and breeds award-winning West of England geese. She is on Twitter as @solar_chase and Mastodon as @solar_chase@mastodon.green.

Speaker

Igor Ljubenkovic, Siemens AG

Vertical Development Manager

Germany

Igor Ljubenkovic studied process and chemical engineering and started his career in gas turbine design and retrofit for fluidic stress calculations. Afterwards he continued his works in different positions in optimization of hydrothermal power plant systems before he moved to sales and bid management for network control systems. Since 2007 he is working as a business developer as an area responsible in different regions in network control, substation automation and protection, and consecutively in the microgrids and renewable integration field. There he is working to date as a vertical developer responsible for the regions Europe and Near & Middle East.

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