Financing for Scale: Capital Strategies for Energy Storage and Supply Chain

Recording of Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | ees South America | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 93:12 .

Financing for Scale: Capital Strategies for Energy Storage and Supply Chain

Energy storage offers Brazil both an energy solution and an opportunity to strengthen the supply chain with innovation and high-tech manufacturing capabilities. This panel will discuss the financing tools and policy frameworks needed to unlock investment in structural projects for BESS in Brazil, including industrial hubs, domestic component manufacturing, green credit lines, storage-linked contracts, and public and private access to innovation grants.

Talks of this session:

Welcome and Introduction

Speaker

Vinicius Berná
Strategy & New Markets Director
CELA - Clean Energy Latin America
Brazil

Strategic Financing for Energy Storage Systems as an Element of the Energy Transition

Speaker

Guilherme Arantes
Manager
BNDES - Brazilian Development Bank
Brazil

How Business and Financing Models Have Evolved: Aggregators, Storage-as-a-Service, Hybrid Contracts, etc

Speaker

Francisco Maiello
Advisory Board
Brasol Soluções Energéticas Ltda.
Brazil

Government Perspective on Storage in the Economic Reform Agenda

Speaker

Dr. Leonardo Ferreira Oliveira
Program Director of the Economic Reform Secretariat
Ministry of Finance
Brazil

What Is Missing to Enable Large-Scale Projects? Financing, Legal Framework, and Regulatory Signal

Speaker

Mariana Galhardo
Senior Partner
G2A Consultores
Brazil

Q&A

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