Sergio Roberto Silva dos Santos

Job Title: Electrical Engineer
Company: Embrastec
Country: Brazil

Electrical engineer graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a specialization in economics and business (MBA) from the Federal University of São Carlos and a master's degree in energy from the Institute of Energy and Environment at the University of São Paulo.
He is a specialist in surge protection at Embrastec and an electrical engineer at Lambda Consultoria Ltda. He has been working in the field of surge protection for over 20 years, specifying Surge Protection Devices (SPDs), drawing up technical standards and writing articles and books on the subject.

August 28, 2024The Importance of Surge Supportability for Electrical Installations

August 29, 2024Review of Photovoltaic Module Degradation

Sessions

Session

Best Practices: PV Quality, Safety, Training and Standards

Thursday, August 29, 2024, 09:00 am - 10:30 am

Expo Center Norte, 2nd floor Cantareira 4-5

To ensure excellent service, individuals and companies operating in the photovoltaic energy sector must adhere to the highest standards. Find out what these standards are in terms of quality, safety, training and regulations.

Further Content

Press Release

Reflecting the advances made by renewable energy in Brazil, The smarter E South America 2024 has surpassed the 650 exhibitors mark, growing by more than 20% over last year’s edition

September 2, 2024

This year’s edition of The smarter E South America, LATAM’s Largest Platform for the New Energy and Mobility World, wound up on last Thursday 29th after featuring 650+ exhibitors and welcoming around 55,000 visitors from 50 countries and more than 2,500 attendees to its four parallel conferences delivered by more than 172 global decision-makers spanning the whole renewable energy supply chain.

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Event Info

About Intersolar South America | Impressions

August 26–28, 2025

LATAM’s Largest Platform for the New Energy and Mobility World

Here you will find the announcements that have been provided to the Press Agency of the event by our exhibitors.

Exhibitor News

News

Speaker

Dr. Rodrigo Sauaia, ABSOLAR

CEO

Brazil

Rodrigo Lopes Sauaia is co-founder and CEO of ABSOLAR (Brazilian Solar Photovoltaic Energy Association), the national association representing Brazilian solar PV companies and professionals. He is co-founder and a governing board member of the GSC (Global Solar Council), a non-profit body representing regional and national solar associations on international issues. Rodrigo holds a PhD in Materials Engineering and Technology from PUC-RS (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul), a Master's degree in Renewable Energies from Loughborough University (UK), a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from USP (São Paulo University), and has collaborated with the Fraunhofer Institut für Solare Energiesysteme (Germany) and with ETH Zürich (Switzerland).