Cristiano Spillati is Limes Renewable Energy Managing Director. He brings over 24 years of experience in executive leadership roles in consulting, telecoms, and clean energy.
For the past 18 years he has been focusing exclusively on the renewable energy sector, as strategy consultant and project developer.
Cristiano comes to Limes from having developed solar PV projects globally with SkyPower Global, and having advised leading strategic and financial investors as Managing Partner of Koralion Partners, a boutique consulting company focused on the new energy sector.
Since 2004, he was involved in the development of renewable energy projects in 13 countries in the four continents. He managed technical and financial teams throughout the whole project development life-cycle, from initial feasibility studies, to debt and equity sourcing and structuring.
Currently based in Barcelona, Spain, Cristiano has lived and worked in three continents. He speaks three languages, being proficient in English, Spanish and Italian, and he is conversational in Portuguese.
Cristiano graduated from Bologna University Law School, in Italy, and holds an MSc in Economics from Warwick University (UK).
Italy provides some of Europe’s best weather conditions for solar power production, and (as of August 2022) has an installed capacity of 21GW. And with 85% of the public believing solar power to be the energy source of the future, this positive public reception provides the ideal springboard for installing new solar assets across the country. The newly elected government promise to support the renewables industry and implement measures to tackle the climate crisis, but it remains to be seen what the efficacy of a rollout in such legislation will be.
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