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.
Join us for an in-depth look at the current state of the Brazilian energy market, as well as a forward-looking perspective on renewable energy technologies. We look forward to your participation!
During the webinar participants can submit their questions to get them answered by the experts in the live Q&A. In addition, both the recording and the speakers' presentations will be made available on our digital content platform The smarter E Digital after the webinar.
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 started as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Germany and has been active in the solar PV industry for 17 years in several executive positions. In 2007-2009, he was Production Manager of crystallization and wafering at Q.Cells SE, Thalheim, Germany, where he reached a vice-presidential role in Sales Operations. Moving to Brazil in 2013, he started as CEO of Yingli Green Energy do Brasil. He teamed up with fellow executives to open Faro Energy, an investment company focusing on PV generation projects for commercial concerns, and was its Sales Director until 2018. In 2019, he was an independent consultant and helped start ABSOLAR's Energy Storage Workgroup. In 2020, founded NewCharge, an engineering company focused on energy storage projects for commercial clients in Brazil. He is also active as acts as a technical consultant and advisor for projects related to energy storage. In August 2023, he was elected president of board of directors of the Brazilian Association for Energy Storage Solutions (ABSAE). Markus also organizes energy storage events and conferences, and recently co-organized an energy storage conference panel for Intersolar South America 2021 in partnership with Solar Promotion.
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.