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

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Time
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
Hall
2nd floor
Room
Cantareira 2

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.

04:00 pm - 05:30 pmFinancing for Scale: Funding for Energy Storage and the Supply Chain

Camila Ramos

CEO

CELA - Clean Energy Latin America

Mariana Galhardo

Senior Partner

G2A Consultores

South America’s Hot Spot for Batteries and Energy Storage Systems
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Speakers
Speaker
Mariana Galhardo, G2A Consultores

Senior Partner

Brazil

Mariana Galhardo is a Senior Partner at G2A Consultores. She has a degree in Business Administration from PUC Campinas, an MBA and a Master's degree from UNIFEI, as well as specializations in Project Management from FACAAMP and Government Relations from INSPER. She began her career in the financial market, working for institutions such as Itaú, Banco do Brasil (including working for the IDB) and Opportunity, always with a focus on new business. Since 2007, Mariana has worked in the energy industry, in all its segments (generation, commercialization, transmission and distribution), having contributed in leadership positions in companies such as Neoenergia (Elektro), Renova, Serena (Omega) and Alupar. In 2017, she opted for entrepreneurship, providing consultancy services to clients such as Grupo Ultragaz, the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Eletrosul, Pronto Energy and Grupo Colibri, focusing on the analysis and development of new projects. Currently at G2A, as well as prospecting and leading due diligence projects, she coordinates ABSAE's Regulation Working Group (WG) and is vice-coordinator of Absolar's Storage WG.

Speaker
Camila Ramos, CELA - Clean Energy Latin America

CEO

Brazil

CEO and Founder of CELA, with 22 years of experience in the renewable energy sector, including bioenergy, wind energy, solar PV and green hydrogen. Camila currently also serves as Investment and Green Hydrogen Vice-President of the Board of Directors of ABSOLAR (the Brazilian Solar PV Association), Non-Executive Director of the Board of Administration of Brazilian Rare Earths, member of the Advisory Board of the Federation of Industry of São Paulo (COINFRA - FIESP) and is a Finance Expert at the Clean Energy Finance Solutions Center (NREL - USA). Prior to founding CELA, she was Country Manager and Head of Latin America at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), where she advised clients with research and analysis of renewable energy sectors and markets, and trends in the region. She has also worked in the past at PricewaterhouseCoopers, ERB - Energias Renováveis do Brasil and Infinity Bio-Energy. Camila holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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