Experience

Energie Fern Consulting

• Chile
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager and Founder

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  • Founding partner of E-Fern. Developer of strategic positioning plans and business plans in the short, medium and long term. • Responsible to the coordination of the legal and energy departments. • Responsible of the direction and management of the services provided by E-Fern to its clients in the technical and regulatory aspects related to the energy and electricity market. marcelo.barrera@e-fern.com / www.e-fern.com • Founding partner of E-Fern. Developer of strategic positioning plans and business plans in the short, medium and long term. • Responsible to the coordination of the legal and energy departments. • Responsible of the direction and management of the services provided by E-Fern to its clients in the technical and regulatory aspects related to the energy and electricity market. marcelo.barrera@e-fern.com / www.e-fern.com



ENGIE Chile

• Chile
• Electric Power Generation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Regulation Engineer

  • Mar 2018 - Sep 2019

  Main duties performed: • Analysis and study of changes, legal and regulatory impacts of the Chilean electricity sector and the impact of these for the Company in the fields of Distribution, Transmission and Generation of electricity and Gas. • Analysis and monitoring of new open access criteria and methodologies in transmission facilities in the Chilean electricity sector. • Responsible for proposing and evaluating transmission expansion projects to increase the regulated revenues of the Company. • Analyze and observe the tariff studies carried out to ensure the correct collection of the regulated revenues of the Company. • Monthly Monitoring and review of the regulated income of the Company.



Comisión Nacional de Energía

• Planning and expantion of power electrical systems

• Lead Project Manager

  • Jul 2014 - Mar 2018

  Main duties performed: ● Responsible for leading a team whose functions are related to the evaluation of pre-feasibility, feasibility and evaluation of transmission solutions for expansion plans together with the development of the terms of reference of the bidding processes. Development of activities related to the elaboration of transmission expansion plans, with responsibilities associated with the analysis of projects from the point of view of feasibility and evaluation of these. ● Development of bidding rules and follow-up of the Bidding Process for New Transmission Projects of the Trunk Transmission System of the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 transmission expansion plans. ● Coordination and responsible for the pricing of the Trunk Transmission System, quadrennium 2016 - 2019. The main tasks were associated with the follow-up of the Trunk Transmission Study Reports (made by the Consultant) and consist in the unit costs analysis, inventory of the Trunk system, modeling and calculations of AVTT (Annual Value Transmission per Tranche). ● Technical counterpart in binational electrical interconnection studies Chile and Argentina. ● Responsible for leading the process of National Electrical Code change about the design of electrical transmission facilities (write down terms of reference, technical counterpart in study and preparation of normative change plan).



Transelec S.A.

• Chile
• Utilities
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Planning Engineer

  • Apr 2013 - Jun 2014

  Main duties performed:● Development of activities about planning and growth studies of high voltage substations, studies of busbar capacity and grounding grids in substations, feasibility studies in Systems like “Sistema Interconectado Central” (SIC) and “Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande” (SING) with the aim of proposing investment opportunities to unregulated and regulated clients. ● Support to Business Management for feasibility analysis for the connection of clients with the possible transmission facilities of the company● Coordinator and responsible for the process of discrepancies in the Expert Panel for the Expansion Plan of the Trunk Transmission System, for the next following twelve monthsAssistant Manager and Coordinator in the Study of Transmission Trunk, quadrennium 2015 - 2018.

• Project Studies Engineer

  • Feb 2011 - Mar 2013

  Development of activities related to pre feasibility, feasibility and basic engineering studies required for the bidding processes for substation and high voltage lines projects in SIC and SING. Active participation in the project studies of the "Trunk Transmission Study Review" process that the company presents to the National Coordinator of the system (CDEC-SIC and CDEC-SING).



CME - Construção e Manutenção Electromecânica, SA

• Portugal
• Construction
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Project Engineer

  • Jun 2010 - Feb 2011

  Development of activities related to the study and elaboration of technical – economic proposals of investment projects of electrical engineering of power substations in the voltage levels of 220 kV and 500 kV. Development of activities related to the study and elaboration of technical – economic proposals of investment projects of electrical engineering of power substations in the voltage levels of 220 kV and 500 kV.