Speakers
Business Engagement & Success Officer
Puerto Rico Minority Supplier Development Council
Programmatic and External Affairs Manager
Puerto Rico Primary Care Association (ASPPR)
At-Large Senator, Minority Leader of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD)
Puerto Rico Senate
Manager of Sustainable and Community Energy Development
Barrio Eléctrico
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
US House of Representatives
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Agenda
Monday, October 19
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
Event Start
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
LUMA's Transmission Operations Center at Monacillo is the control room for Puerto Rico's transmission system — where operators balance generation and load, manage the island's largest substation, and coordinate restoration after storms.
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
A full-day, Spanish-language course on code-compliant installation of solar PV and energy storage systems. Separate registration required (free with a full conference pass): SESAWorkshopSolarTraining.eventbrite.com.
8:15 AM - 3:30 PM
8:15 AM - 3:30 PM
Aguirre in Salinas is one of Puerto Rico’s largest legacy fossil plants and home to the biggest battery site in Genera PR’s federally funded utility-scale storage program. En route, we’ll stop at an Infinigen utility-scale solar installation.
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
How energy policy actually gets made in Puerto Rico: the Legislature, the Energy Bureau, the Fiscal Oversight Board, La Fortaleza, the federal government, and the people and processes behind each.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
LUMA's Customer Battery Energy Sharing program dispatched enrolled home batteries through its most active summer yet in 2026.
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, October 20
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Registration and Coffee
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Exhibit Hall Open
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
SESA opens its 10th Annual Summit with a welcome from the association's leadership.
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The Governor sets out her administration's vision for Puerto Rico's energy system — reliability, cost, and the role of renewables and storage — and what it means for the solar and storage industry.
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM
A snapshot of Puerto Rico's economy and investment climate from the island's investment-promotion organization: which sectors are growing, who is investing, and how Puerto Rico is being positioned to companies deciding where to locate.
9:30 AM - 9:42 AM
9:30 AM - 9:42 AM
Puerto Rico's net metering law, Act 114‑2007, is the policy foundation on which the island's rooftop solar and storage market was built, and the governor who signed it is here to tell the story.
9:42 AM - 9:50 AM
9:42 AM - 9:50 AM
A data-driven look at Puerto Rico's solar and storage market in 2026: installation volumes, battery attachment, financing mix, and how the island compares with mainland markets.
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Wheeling has been legal in Puerto Rico for years without a single customer using it; with a utility pilot now proposed to the Energy Bureau, this session asks what it would allow and what it would take for projects to get built.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 10:42 AM
10:30 AM - 10:42 AM
The President of the Puerto Rico Senate on the Senate's current energy agenda.
10:42 AM - 10:52 AM
10:42 AM - 10:52 AM
Puerto Rico's residential solar-and-storage companies are weighing what it will take to grow in 2026 and how to do it well.
10:52 AM - 11:02 AM
10:52 AM - 11:02 AM
Recheck is an industry registry that gives solar sales representatives and installers a verified identity that financiers and installers can check, and now a certified sales-rep credential built on the ANSI/SEIA consumer-protection standard.
11:02 AM - 11:14 AM
11:02 AM - 11:14 AM
Senators from Puerto Rico's two main parties on where they agree and disagree about renewable energy.
11:14 AM - 11:26 AM
11:14 AM - 11:26 AM
Connecticut created a Connecticut–Puerto Rico Trade Commission in 2025, and energy cooperation has moved onto its agenda.
11:30 AM - 11:33 AM
11:30 AM - 11:33 AM
A recorded message from Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner in Congress on federal legislation and oversight affecting the island's solar and storage industry.
11:33 AM - 11:45 AM
11:33 AM - 11:45 AM
Federal policy changed sharply in 2025 — the residential solar tax credit ended for homeowners, third-party-owned systems kept a credit on a shorter clock, and sourcing rules tightened — and more change is coming.
11:45 AM - 11:53 AM
11:45 AM - 11:53 AM
Minority Business Enterprise certification opens doors to corporate and government supplier-diversity programs that many Puerto Rico companies qualify for and few use.
11:53 AM - 12:03 PM
11:53 AM - 12:03 PM
Agrivoltaics — growing crops under and between solar panels — is moving from concept to construction in Puerto Rico, with the island's first commercial-scale farm microgrid now certified by the Energy Bureau.
12:03 PM - 12:15 PM
12:03 PM - 12:15 PM
Community-led solar and storage — energy cooperatives, neighborhood microgrids and nonprofit models — offers resilience to households that the market alone does not reach.
12:15 PM - 12:27 PM
12:15 PM - 12:27 PM
Community health centers serve hundreds of thousands of patients across Puerto Rico, and many sit in the communities hit hardest by outages.
12:30 PM - 1:40 PM
12:30 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM - 1:50 PM
1:40 PM - 1:50 PM
The House sponsor of the 2026 joint resolution that eliminated the $300 interconnection-study charge for small solar systems and ordered the Energy Bureau to write new interconnection rules.
1:50 PM - 2:00 PM
1:50 PM - 2:00 PM
Puerto Rico's Energy Bureau adopted its renewable energy certificate regulation in 2026, and the question for rooftop and community solar owners is what a REC is actually worth and who can sell one.
2:00 PM - 2:06 PM
2:00 PM - 2:06 PM
Lithium batteries cover hours; some critical loads need days.
2:06 PM - 2:12 PM
2:06 PM - 2:12 PM
Puerto Rico's climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience plan, required by Act 33-2019 and prepared by the island's expert committee, is awaiting final legislative action.
2:12 PM - 2:24 PM
2:12 PM - 2:24 PM
Commercial and industrial solar and storage in Puerto Rico runs on different economics than the rooftop market — projects that take years to develop, interconnection queues, bank and lease financing, and incentives that are changing.
2:24 PM - 2:30 PM
2:24 PM - 2:30 PM
The U.S. Government Accountability Office's 2026 report on Puerto Rico's grid recovery traces where roughly $14 billion in obligated federal funds has gone and why so little has reached the ground.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Commercial and industrial microgrids pair solar, battery storage, generators and controls, and the early choices about project goals and resource mix determine what the system can actually do.
C-PACE lets building owners finance solar, storage and efficiency upgrades through a long-term assessment attached to the property.
GAO’s June 2026 report on Puerto Rico’s grid found only a fraction of ~$14B in federal funds obligated since 2017 had been spent and few large projects were complete. Authors will cover where the money went, what slowed it, and GAO’s recommendations.
Puerto Rico's climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience plan, required by Act 33-2019, and what it means for the energy sector.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
5:45 PM - 7:15 PM
5:45 PM - 7:15 PM
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Wednesday, October 21
7:45 AM - 8:45 AM
7:45 AM - 8:45 AM
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Expo Hall Open
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
SESA opens the second day of the Summit with a recap of day one.
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
The Energy Bureau's decisions over the past year that shape Puerto Rico's renewable energy landscape, and what is coming next.
9:10 AM - 9:20 AM
9:10 AM - 9:20 AM
The interconnection rulemaking has run through a series of stakeholder workshops in which LUMA, the government, the solar industry and consumer advocates have put sharply different positions on the record.
9:20 AM - 9:32 AM
9:20 AM - 9:32 AM
Puerto Rico's virtual power plant — home batteries enrolled in LUMA's Customer Battery Energy Sharing program — has grown under Energy Bureau orders on enrollment, dispatch and cost recovery.
9:32 AM - 9:42 AM
9:32 AM - 9:42 AM
Many of Puerto Rico's distribution circuits already carry more solar than traditional screening thresholds allow, which raises the question of how much solar the grid can really host.
9:42 AM - 9:54 AM
9:42 AM - 9:54 AM
Island grids need distributed resources to support stability rather than undermine it, and interconnection rules and inverter settings are where that is decided.
9:57 AM - 10:07 AM
9:57 AM - 10:07 AM
Code minimums are written for typical conditions; Puerto Rico's roofs face hurricanes, salt air and heat.
10:15 AM - 10:27 AM
10:15 AM - 10:27 AM
Between a finished installation and an energized, net-metered system sit the licensed electrician's certification, inspection, and the utility's interconnection process.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM
Puerto Rico has contracted hundreds of megawatts of utility-scale solar and storage across several procurement rounds, and the first large projects have begun to energize.
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM
C‑PACE is the property-assessed financing tool for commercial solar, storage and efficiency that bills before the Legislature would create in Puerto Rico, and its design details will decide whether lenders participate.
11:20 AM - 11:32 AM
11:20 AM - 11:32 AM
Beyond the home battery: what transportable solar-plus-storage, emergency power systems and off-grid EV charging have done in Puerto Rico’s outages, and where they fit alongside rooftop solar.
11:34 AM - 11:44 AM
11:34 AM - 11:44 AM
A LUMA perspective on the customer experience — how the utility handles service for solar customers specifically and for all customers generally, from billing and net-metering credits to outage communication and complaint resolution.
11:44 AM - 11:52 AM
11:44 AM - 11:52 AM
LUMA's energy efficiency programs offer rebates and incentives on efficient equipment for homes and businesses, with budgets and offerings that change year to year.
11:52 AM - 12:00 PM
11:52 AM - 12:00 PM
Habitat for Humanity builds and rebuilds homes for low- and very-low-income families in Puerto Rico, who carry the heaviest energy burden and the least resilience.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
LUMA's leadership sets out how the utility sees the grid's future and the role of distributed energy in it — rooftop solar, customer batteries, the virtual power plant.
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Learn about SESA's membership, history, and 8 days a week, diplomacy-only advocacy style.
1:40 PM - 1:52 PM
1:40 PM - 1:52 PM
Home batteries enrolled in LUMA's Customer Battery Energy Sharing (CBES) program are dispatched together as a single grid resource when LUMA calls on them.
1:52 PM - 2:03 PM
1:52 PM - 2:03 PM
Behind every virtual power plant are the customers whose batteries get dispatched.
2:03 PM - 2:16 PM
2:03 PM - 2:16 PM
After the exit of a major mainland lender, Puerto Rico-based companies have built their own ways to finance solar and storage — loans, leases, lease-to-own and in-house financing arms.
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM
Battery fires are rare but consequential, and the newest fire-safety standards test whether a thermal event in one battery unit spreads to its neighbors.
2:25 PM - 2:35 PM
2:25 PM - 2:35 PM
Insurance-backed coverage could help protect residential and commercial solar and storage projects for decades, including when a manufacturer or installer goes out of business.
2:35 PM - 2:45 PM
2:35 PM - 2:45 PM
Electric vehicles are a small but growing share of Puerto Rico's cars, and charging them raises grid questions: where chargers get built, how they are interconnected, what rates apply, and how vehicles could support the grid.
2:45 PM - 2:55 PM
2:45 PM - 2:55 PM
A national and a local view of the forces shaping Puerto Rico's solar and storage market — federal policy, financing, local rules on net metering and interconnection, and customer demand.
2:53 PM - 3:00 PM
2:53 PM - 3:00 PM
SESA closes the main stage with the takeaways from two days and the commitments and follow-ups that came out of the sessions.
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Exhibitor Break Down
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Learn how the Energy Bureau's draft Interconnection Regulation can improve and streamline the process for how distributed solar and storage systems connect to the power grid.
A hands-on session on Recheck's verification tools for the solar sales channel: how the Recheck ID works for sales representatives and installers, how financiers and installers use it, and what the Certified Solar Sales Rep credential requires.
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Event End
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Green Drinks (nearby)
Sponsors
All Island Sponsors
Gigawatt Sponsors
Megawatt Sponsors
Kilowatt Sponsors
Karaoke Night
Sunset Party
Coffee Break Sponsor
Partners
Exhibitors
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