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The power of RESILIENCE
Cristiano Spillati’ s view on shifting perceptions and scaling renewables across the globe
With extensive experience in the renewables sector spanning 21 years and 13 countries, Cristiano Spillati currently serves as the Managing Director of an international renewable energy development company, Limes Renewable Energy( Limes). Throughout his career, Cristiano has been involved with several projects including solar PV projects with SkyPower Global and in an advisory capacity with Koralion Partners.
Having managed various projects and associated teams, Cristiano oversees the entire process from development and initial feasibility studies to equity sourcing and structuring. While he is currently based in Milan, Cristiano graduated from Bologna University in Italy and completed an MSc in Economics from Warwick University in the UK before embarking on a career in renewables.
“ I entered the renewables sector almost by chance in 2004,” Cristiano begins.“ I studied and worked in the UK for seven years, and when I moved to Barcelona, I reconnected with a friend of a former colleague who was a partner at a renewable energy research and consulting company. It was a microorganization with just the three partners, but around one year later, there was an opportunity for me to join them and so I worked in consulting in the renewable energy sector until around 2012.
“ After some experience in renewables, I and the other cofounders of Limes recognized a gap in the market for an international renewable energy development company in Italy. Although there were some transformative opportunities and developments across Europe, Italy seemed to be at a standstill, and we believed there was a key opportunity to create a company and portfolio that combined then subsidyfree renewable projects in more mature markets with emerging markets. In 2016, we began forming a strategy and founded the company one year later. Our belief in the future of renewables in Italy and the potential to move away from a reliance on subsidies was compounded by the first subsidy free transaction in the country, by Octopus in 2017. Following this, Limes’ first successful funding closed at the beginning of 2018.”
With a focus on solar, onshore wind, and battery storage projects, Limes is headquartered in Milan, Italy, and
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