Power Beyond Politics: Surviving the Storm When Policy Changes

The expansion of energy storage creates significant opportunities for industrial development, innovation, and Brazil's integration into global value chains. This session will discuss the country's role in the energy storage supply chain, including strategic minerals, components, assembly, manufacturing, industrial policies, and incentive mechanisms. The panel will address how Brazil can combine competitiveness, supply security, technological development, and investment attractiveness to build an industrial base connected to the growth of the BESS market.

The safe and reliable operation of energy storage systems is essential for the sustainable expansion of the market. This session will discuss engineering best practices, technical standards, project safety, risk management, operational performance, and battery system lifespan. The panel will address the requirements for ensuring reliability, quality, failure prevention, and the safe integration of BESS across different applications, offering a technical perspective on the standards that should guide the future of storage-system operation in Brazil.

Fleet electrification has already moved beyond the conceptual stage and now faces the realities of day-to-day operations. Energy planning, dedicated infrastructure, modelling and simulation, logistics, charging times, operational costs, and grid integration all become critical considerations. This session brings together practical experience and applied research to understand how to turn electrification projects into viable, sustainable real-world operations. 

Where is the charging market heading to in the coming years? The answer lies in ultra-fast charging, new urban charging solutions, advanced battery systems, integration with buildings, smarter electricity grids, and emerging business models still in development. This session discusses which technologies and applications are likely to gain traction, which trends could reshape current infrastructure, and how companies, cities and operators should prepare for the next phase of electric mobility.