Proyectos y Estudios Energéticos y Empresariales Petrés SAS

Industrial Engineer from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and Master in Economics from the University of Wales (Great Britain). Consultant with extensive experience in the energy sector in the fields of policy, regulation and markets, both for state entities and private sector agents. Internationally he has served as a consultant to the World Bank, IDB and consulting firms in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Central American Regional Market, Nicaragua and Guyana, as well as a panelist in workshops in Chile, Peru, China, Mexico and the United States.

He served as Expert Commissioner and Executive Director of the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission - CREG - of Colombia. He was involved in the development and implementation of the regulatory framework for the natural gas, electricity and propane gas (LPG) sectors between August 1995 and April 1999. He was also Secretary General of the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Colombia between September 1994 and August 1995.

In the field of renewable energies, he advised between 2013 and 2014 to the UPME (Mining and Energy Planning Unit of Colombia), in the framework of the IDB Project for the promotion of Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Sources FNCER, for the definition of a strategy. He was also an advisor to the World Bank (Short Term Consultant) before the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE) of Mexico for the implementation of the Law for the Use of Renewable Energies and the Financing of the Energy Transition in the Electricity Market, 2009 - 2010 and 2010 - 2011 and the elaboration of a preliminary study on alternatives for contracting renewable energies through auctions. In the advisory and consulting services provided in Peru, Central America and Guyana, the consideration of renewable energies in the policy and regulatory frameworks has been a key element.