• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Enrique Álvarez-Uría

EDP Renewables

Offshore Wind Business Development Director, North America

Enrique Alvarez, Offshore Development Director, EDPR, is currently based in Boston, where he leads EDPR’s offshore wind activities in the North American offshore market. Through its joint venture “Mayflower Wind,” EDPR was awarded a federal lease off the New England Coast in December 2018. Since joining EDPR in 2008, Mr. Alvarez has held several roles heading EDPR’s offshore wind initiatives in Europe. EDPR co-owns a project portfolio totaling over 2.5 GW in the United Kingdom, France, and Portugal. In 2008, Mr. Alvarez started project origination in the United Kingdom, where EDPR achieved the development rights of the Moray Firth zone (approximately 1500 MW). In 2011, Mr. Alvarez spearheaded the setup of a joint venture with a major oil and gas player to co-develop the Inch Cape project (approximately 900 MW). From 2013 to 2016, he managed EDPR’s bidding process in the French market where EDPR achieved, in partnership with French leading companies, the development rights for two projects totaling 1 GW as well as a 24 MW floating project. Prior to joining EDPR, Mr. Alvarez worked for the energy group Areva as a Contract and Risk Manager in international nuclear projects. Mr. Alvarez holds an MBA from IESE Business School.

Sessions With Enrique Álvarez-Uría

Thursday, 14 March

  • 07:30am - 08:45am (CST) / -

    Offshore Wind: The new frontier
    Panel Power Climate/Environment/Sustainability

    Offshore wind costs are falling in Europe, and earlier this year developers announced astonishingly low prices in the United States and Taiwan. Many countries across Asia, Europe, and North America are betting big that offshore wind can help green their power sector. At the same time, resources are being invested in floating offshore wind technologies, with the aim of unlocking a significant capacity potential in Europe, Japan, and the United States. As a result, the global offshore wind market is set to install over 430 GW of new capacity by 2050, over 80% of it in just six markets, requiring investments over US$ 1 trillion. However, as project complexity and competition from other renewables sources continue to increase, technology advances, supply chain consolidation, standardization, and the ability to leverage best practices from other sectors will be key for the success of this industry.