Thursday, May 15, 2025 I 4:00pm CET I 11:00am BRT I Language: Portuguese
Brazil is emerging as a key market for renewable energy solutions – particularly in the areas of photovoltaics, storage technologies, and e-mobility. With its vast renewable energy potential and increasing demands for grid stability and sustainable transportation, the country offers attractive opportunities – but also presents certain challenges.
The recording and the speakers' presentations are available here .
Vinicius Suppion,
Regulatory Affairs Analyst, Associação Brasileira de Energia Solar Fotovoltaica – ABSOLAR
Electrical engineer graduated from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), with a Master's and Ph.D. from the Energy Postgraduate Program at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), and a Postdoctoral degree from the Electrical Engineering Postgraduate Program at UFABC. He has conducted various research projects and published works focusing on the control and integration of distributed energy resources (DER), power quality, and microgrids. He currently works as a Regulatory Technical Analyst at the Brazilian Solar Photovoltaic Energy Association – ABSOLAR.
Markus Vlasits,
Presidente, Associação Brasileira de Soluções de Armazenamento de Energia (ABSAE)
Markus Vlasits is one of the leading figures in the energy storage sector in Brazil. With over 17 years of experience in the energy market, he previously worked at global companies such as McKinsey & Company and Q.Cells in Germany, before moving to Brazil, where he led Yingli Green Energy’s operations and co-founded Faro Energy.
Since 2020, he has been leading NewCharge, a company specialized in battery energy storage solutions. He helped structure the Energy Storage Working Group at ABSOLAR and, in 2023, was elected Chair of the Board of ABSAE – the Brazilian Energy Storage Association.
Markus is recognized as one of the most active voices in the sector, contributing to strategic debates and the development of public policies and regulatory frameworks to support the energy transition.
Rafael Gosuen Cunha
COO, MOVE Eletromobilidade
Rafael Cunha is an Electrical Engineer from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and writes the “Electric Vehicles” column for FotoVolt magazine. He has several years’ experience in projects for industrial installations, as well as in projects to implement an electrical work safety regulatory standard (NR-10) and is also a member of the study commission currently developing the NBR 17019 standard. Rafael is a co-founder of and the director of operations at movE Eletromobilidade, which provides technological solutions for managing the charging controls of electric vehicles.
Ericka Araujo,
Head of Communications, CanalSolar
Ericka Araújo is the Head of Communication at Canal Solar and the host of Papo Solar. With a strong background in the renewable energy sector since 2020, she specializes in podcast production, interview programs, and journalistic content creation. Ericka is a graduate in Journalism from PUC Campinas and is currently pursuing an MBA in Administration: Business in the Electric Sector. In 2019, she was awarded the Tropical Journalist Prize by SBMT and the FEAC Journalism Prize.