As clean and low-carbon hydrogen projects receive worldwide financing, additional measures could accelerate their development and reduce bottlenecks such as regulatory and infrastructure barriers. Enabling infrastructure is crucial to ease hydrogen project difficulties, while repurposing, reusing, and sharing infrastructure could be beneficial. Investing in repurposing … [Read more...] about Transforming Infrastructure for a sustainable hydrogen future in Latin America and the Caribbean
Matilde Urquizo
Matilde Urquizo is a consultant in the Energy Division of the Department of Infraestructure and Energy based in Washington DC, where she supports sustainable energy projects focused on geothermal and decarbonization of the sector. She worked as a project Specialist at Ecuadorian Electricity Company (known by its Spanish acronym CELEC EP) since 2011. As a team leader, she oversaw planning and managed high enthalpy geothermal development in Ecuador. Her experience includes building human and infrastructural capacity and managing exploration in Chacana, Chalpatan, Tufino-Chiles, Cerro Negro, and Baños de Cuenca. During her tenure, Ecuador was finally able to drill the first geothermal well at Chachimbiro Project in 2017, with the cooperation of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She is an electrical engineer from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Guayaquil, Ecuador) and holds a master’s degree in renewable energy from the University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain). She also completed post-graduate training in geothermal energy at University of El Salvador, and in geothermal finance and project management at the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme in Iceland. She is a founding member and former president of the Ecuadorian Geothermal Association (2021-2022) and Ambassador of WING (Women in Geothermal) Ecuador.