LAWEA Workshop: Supply Chain Opportunities for wind projects in Latin America

The supply chain for construction and operation of wind farms in LATAM has grown in importance with the increasing number of developments popping up in the entire region. Different and new players has been called to this activity due the rising demand of this market which the lack of local experiences, high costs, necessary skills absence and chronic infrastructure deficits presents challenges and opportunities requiering new requiring skills, contacts and experience to accomplish the set up of this projects.

Objetives:
- To meet actual and new products and services offers oriented to satisfy the demand of emerging projects in the region.

- To design strategies for achieving the national integration marks, taking advantage of the local opportunities those marks bring.

- To foresee the challenges in logistics to appear at some locations and to contact the right people to work on them.

- To understand support and incentives mechanisms developed by different levels of the governments for the purpose of using the local suppliers.

- To develop skills necessary to operate and maintain a wind farm with local staff getting cost efficiency and spreading well-being at the communities.


Topics:

-Supplay Chain overview
-New players in the region
-Logistics and Transportation
-Competitive advantages and limitations.
-Funding Opportunities.
-Operation and Maintenance