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

Silvia Macri

S&P Global

Associate Director

Silvia Macri is responsible for renewable and power market analysis in Africa and Middle East. She has led the regional renewables research for over 10 years, covering renewable power policy trends, business models, emerging renewable strategies, project activity and competitive landscape, among others. Her research scope includes all renewable power technologies’ options. She leads the team covering power research and analysis in Africa and Middle East, including power market fundamentals and long-term outlook, strategy and policy, and competitive analysis. She has international experience in analysis and communication, having been based in the Middle East for over five years before her role at IHS Markit. Ms. Macri was an energy researcher and journalist for the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), based in Lebanon, and previously a development advisor at UNDP in Cairo, Egypt. Ms. Macri holds a BA in International Relations, and a Master’s degree in Arab Gulf Studies from the University of Exeter (UK). She is Frankfurt School’s Certified Expert in Climate and Renewable Energy Finance (2018). Ms. Macri is based in Paris and speaks Italian, English, Spanish, and French, and has a basic knowledge of Arabic.

Sessions With Silvia Macri

Thursday, 12 March

  • 09:30am - 10:20am (CST) / -

    Microgrids for Clean & Resilient Operations
    Clean Tech
    Gaining traction globally, renewables-based micro- and minigrids can respond to increasingly frequent power disruptions that follow extreme climate events, offering grid customers an alternative to high power tariffs and emerging markets universal access to power. However, the number of microgrid projects globally remains limited compared with the market potential. What are the main drivers for microgrid implementation? Why hasn’t the market reached its full potential? What are the key challenges, and how can these barriers be overcome?
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Solar Power: Are we on a new cost curve?
    Power & Renewables

    Photovoltaics costs have decreased dramatically over the past decade, mostly driven by a sustained decline in module costs, which have fallen nearly 90% on average between 2010 and 2020. Going forward, further decreases are expected but the sources of improvements could be more diverse. Further gains could come from a combination of incremental cost reduction to existing technological platforms, but also through the emergence of new technologies. At the same time, the focus is shifting from reducing capex to increasing the value over the lifetime of a project. How well positioned is the supply chain to deliver on future cost reductions? How can past cost reductions be sustained in the future? What new technologies are on the horizon? How likely their success? What potential for cost reduction is there beyond the module?