Sessions
Interconnecting all these Renewables: Net Metering, Interconnection & Hosting Capacity
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM Wed
Alfonso Baretty-Huertas graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (2006) and a Master’s degree in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY (2007). He has spent all his professional life in the power utility sector, mostly as a transmission planning engineer.
During his tenure at the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), he was involved in numerous projects regarding the integration of large-scale renewables. He helped develop Minimum Technical Requirements for the integration of large-scale renewables and performed interconnection studies for a large part of the projects currently interconnected to PREPA’s system. At PREPA, he held positions of Superintendent of Planning, Head of Planning and finally Director of Planning and Environmental Protection, where he led the closing stages of PREPA’s 2018 IRP. This project proposed a new paradigm in system planning, introducing the concept of renewable energy-backed mini-grid systems to secure the resilience of the power system against natural disasters, like storms or hurricanes.
Eng. Baretty is a licensed engineer in Puerto Rico and active member of the College of Engineer and Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico (CIAPR). He has also been an instructor at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR) for over ten (10) years, teaching mostly power engineering related courses.
Currently, he works at LUMA (Puerto Rico’s Grid Operator) as Manager of Grid Transformation, where he leads a team of talented minds working in the integration of small-scale renewables and distributed energy resources.