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José Donoso

Director General

UNEF

Serving as a founding member, representing UNEF (Spanish National Photovoltaic Association) as Director General, and as a Co-Chair of the organization, Jose Donoso has been elected by the board to be Chairman of the Global Solar Council in 2021.

He has been working in the Renewable Sector for more than 30 years.
He started off in the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE), where he was the director of the International Department between 1987 and 2001.
From 2001 until 2011 he was Development Director in Gamesa, a Spanish Wind Energy company. Between 2008 and 2011 he was the president of the Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE).

In 2012 he becomes Director General of UNEF (Spanish National Photovoltaic Association). He is also President of the Spanish Photovoltaic Platform of R+D (Fotoplat) and Member of the Advisory Council of the Organization of Electricity Market (OMEL).

Besides, he is professor in the post grade course in Wind Energy of the University Polytechnic of Madrid.

Networking Roundtables

Spain has led Europe’s solar buildout — but scale has created its own problems. Capture rate erosion, negative pricing hours and grid congestion in key corridors are compressing returns on assets that looked very different at the point of investment. Meanwhile, the pipeline of hybrid solar and storage projects is growing fast as developers respond to the new market reality. This roundtable examines what operating and investing in Spanish solar and storage actually looks like in 2026.

  • Capture rate erosion, negative pricing and how Spanish developers are restructuring revenue models to protect returns
  • Grid congestion by corridor — where connection capacity exists and where curtailment risk is now structural
  • BESS opportunity in Spain — what merchant, ancillary service and capacity revenues are delivering today
  • PPA market evolution — what Spanish corporates and utilities are signing and where structures are breaking down
  • Permitting reform, land availability and what the next wave of Spanish hybrid development actually looks like