Alfredo Solar of Atlas Renewable Energy returns to the presidency of ACERA

The Board of Directors of the Chilean Renewable Energy and Storage Association (ACERA AG) unanimously elected Alfredo Solar, Regional Manager for Chile and the Southern Cone at Atlas Renewable Energy, as the association's new president. At the same meeting, Oscar Álamos, Head of Regulatory Affairs at ISA Energía Chile, was elected secretary of the association.

Both will hold their positions until October 2028 and will join the management team also made up of José Miguel Bustamante, Carey's partner, as vice president, and Matías Steinacker, general manager of Enlasa, as treasurer.

Solar is once again leading the association, which he already chaired for two consecutive terms between 2010 and 2016. Since then, he has remained on the ACERA Council, where until now he served as secretary, contributing his experience in the development of renewable and storage projects and in the challenges facing the energy transition in Chile.

His arrival as president comes at a particularly important time for the association. Following the reform of its bylaws and the partial renewal of its Board, ACERA now has, for the first time, representation from all five segments that make up the Association: generation and storage; transmission; equipment and technology suppliers; specialized services; and project development, infrastructure, and financing.

This new structure broadens the perspectives present in institutional leadership and strengthens ACERA's capacity to build common positions, develop technical proposals, and represent across the board an industry that plays a central role in the transformation of the Chilean energy system.

“I am grateful for the unanimous confidence of the Board. I am assuming this responsibility again at a very different time than in 2010: renewable energies are now key players in the Chilean electricity system, and the challenge now is to ensure that this energy reaches consumers safely, efficiently, and competitively. For the first time, our Board brings together the entire value chain, from generation and storage to transmission, suppliers, and services, and this diversity is our main strength in developing proposals. Our priorities will be to accelerate the electrification of consumption, ensure that storage is integrated with clear and efficient rules, and that transmission and system operation keep pace with the transition,” said Alfredo Solar.

Oscar Álamos, meanwhile, has been a member of the ACERA Council since 2025, representing ISA Energía Chile, and has specialized experience in the regulation and development of the electricity system. From his position at the Secretariat, he will participate in the institutional management of the Council and in the formalization of its agreements.

An agenda for the next stage of the energy transition

The new leadership takes over as ACERA deepens an agenda aimed at accelerating the electrification of consumption, facilitating efficient integration of storage and contributing to the modernization of the electricity system.

Among the matters that are already part of the union's work are the development of a roadmap for the electrification of final energy consumption and ACERA's participation in sectoral bodies that address security of supply, market design, system operation with proper implementation of storage, sustainable project financing and the necessary conditions to mobilize investment.

The challenge of the new period will be to transform the diversity represented in the Council into agreements, proposals and solutions that allow for an articulated dialogue with the authorities of the sector, to take advantage of the country's renewable potential, as well as to strengthen the security and efficiency of the system based on decarbonized solutions and technologies.

Solar assumes the presidency of ACERA in a period marked by the need for technical evidence that allows both sector authorities and market agents to validate the contributions that decarbonized technologies make to the strength of the grid and the automation of operations.

In the coming days, the new formation of the executive board of ACERA AG will hold a series of meetings with authorities and companies in the sector, as well as the preparation of the 2027 strategic plan together with 130 partner companies that belong to the association.