HIGHLIGHTED INFORMATION

Dates: Friday 3, 10, 17 and 24 March

Timetable: from 15:30 to 18:45

Mode: Online

RATES

• General registration: €450
• 10% discount for collaborating companies Fundación Empresas IQS
• IQS Alumni: €160
• Alumni Premium (associated): €100
• IQS Students: free
• PAS/PDI IQS: free

The current time is one of energy uncertainty and in particular uncertainty in the electricity sector.

This is due to the convergence of several trends that need to be examined closely:

• The demands of the EU to curb climate change, are embodied in various guidelines with targets for 2030.
• The rise of Renewable Energies as a response to the above and the need to integrate them into the current electricity grid.
• The foreseeable increase in electric vehicles implies the electrification of the transport sector.
• The increasingly urgent need for massive storage means the only way to make Renewable Energies fully useful.
• The need for a new concept of the electricity grid, which contemplates power flows in both directions, from a generator to consumption and from consumption to the grid. This entails moving from a power grid to a more sophisticated integrated power and communications network; what is called Smart Grids.  

All this translates into a new electricity paradigm that must be intelligently addressed.

Fortunately, within this new energy framework, new business opportunities are arising, such as the development of large photovoltaic or wind farms, projects that no longer necessarily have to be led by the current large electricity structures, but are accessible to various groups of promoters or industrial investors.

Let us put ourselves in the shoes of a potential investor or developer of these new electricity-generating systems. What would be the main questions they would ask themselves? Possibly ones such as:

• What are the best technologies to use?
• Where to locate them? What should be the recommended characteristics of the site?
• What permits and authorisations do I need and who will give them to me?
• How to sell the energy produced by my system in the best possible way? What agreements do I need to reach before I start? With which deadlines?
• How to find the necessary financing for the whole project and how to structure the debt? 

All these questions, and others that will undoubtedly arise, will be answered in the following course.

OBJECTIVES

The main objective of this course is to give a realistic and practical vision of the different activities and stages that need to be carried out to develop a large-scale Photovoltaic Solar Plant, both from a technical and business point of view.

Consequently, it is aimed at both technicians and non-technicians who are interested in this energy field and who wish to know both the technical parts (engineering necessary for its start-up) and the administrative (obtaining permits) and business parts, including the commercial options for the sale of electricity (PPAs, Spot Market sales, Futures, etc.), the basic concepts associated with the investor’s vision (profitability, risk and financing structure), and a practical approach to the financial models for decision making.

TEACHING STAFF

JUAN ANTONIO TORMO VENTO

Industrial Electrical Engineer (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), Associate Professor IQS School of Engineering

JAVIER MONFORT

Country Manager at BlueFloat Energy