TEAM

JØAN HERRERA

Joan holds a degree in Law from the Universitat de Barcelona, a postgraduate degree in Urban Planning Law and Environmental Law from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and is an associate lecturer in Energy Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Joan’s connection with the environment and energy comes from afar, when very few people addressed the climate and energy challenge. Author of different books, he has been director of the IDAE when self-consumption was opened, he has been director of Environmental Action and Energy of the Prat City Council, promoting the local energy community of the municipality. It thus adds a global and local vision from both a legal and a public policy perspective.

JØRGE ANDREY

Jorge holds a degree in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Planning from the Technical University of Berlin. He has extensive experience in the field of renewable energies and has been an expert lawyer in the electricity sector for ten years.

Jorge is a firm defender of an authentic energy transition: participated, fair and distributed. In addition to appearances on television and in the press, he has given lectures and courses on the electricity sector, PPAs, self-consumption and energy communities. In his day-to-day work, he helps his clients find and design legal solutions to fit new technologies and sustainable business models into current regulations.

RAIMØN GALVE

Graduated in Law and Political Science and Public Management and currently pursuing an MBA (Master of Business Administration), he has experience in managing projects that intensify citizens’ access to new technologies and tools to transform our lives. Expert in project design and specialised in dealing with public administrations and their environment, he has promoted projects for different products and has worked in one of the benchmark companies in the Catalan technology market. The training in Law and Political Science and Public Management, together with the MBA, provides a comprehensive vision for the development of projects in the energy transition. It allows understanding the sector’s regulations, managing effective business strategies and promoting sustainable policies, fostering innovative solutions that respond to current energy challenges.

MARÇAL MUSTÉ

A graduate in Energy Engineering and a member of the CETIB, this professional has 360º experience in self-consumption photovoltaic projects. He has participated in all stages of the process, from the initial design to its execution, detecting the specific needs of each project and carrying out a detailed control of the process. As head of the technical office, he has developed several projects in different installers, dealing with the residential, public and private sectors. His adaptability and versatility allows him to manage and implement projects of any scale and complexity, ensuring that they meet the requirements and expectations of his clients. In addition, he has experience in monitoring and drawing up supply contracts in the electricity market, which enriches his competence in the comprehensive management of energy projects.

EDUARD SAVALL

Eduard holds a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona (2019), where he has also completed a postgraduate course in European Union Environmental Law (2019) and a Master’s degree in Law (2021). He has worked in the field of public procurement in public sector entities and has completed a professional internship at the Directorate-General for Climate of the European Commission (2024) on the European CO₂ Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

ÁLVARØ BARRØS

Álvaro holds a law degree from the University of Chile (2013) with a postgraduate degree in Energy Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2016) and a Master in Environmental and Sustainability Law from the University of Alicante (2022), where he obtained the Extraordinary Prize for the best transcript. She has 8 years of experience in energy, environmental and administrative law, with special interest in public participation and citizen empowerment. She is currently validating her Law Degree in Spain.

SØUKAINA L'HIBA

Soukaina holds a Law degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2021) and a Master’s degree in Law from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2023). She has extensive experience in the energy sector, especially in the field of self-consumption and in the development and legal advice for photovoltaic installations, solar communities and projects related to the energy transition.

PARTNER AND CØLLABORATOR

CRISTINA MØNGE

Cristina is a political scientist and holds has a doctorate from the University of Zaragoza, where she teaches sociology classes. His areas of interest are sustainability and democratic quality, and especially governance for ecological transition, issues he works on in research centres such as Globernance, BC3, itdUPM, and on the board of Ecodes.

She is a political analyst for El País, Cadena SER, RTVE, Infolibre and the Green European Journal, is a member of the advisory board of Llorente y Cuenca and Ethic magazine, and is a member of the board of trustees of Fundesplai. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Open Government Forum and since 2019 he has been a member of the Development Cooperation Advisory Board. She is co-editor of the collection More Political Culture, More Democracy, in collaboration with Gedisa and chairs the “Más Democracia” Association.

EXPERTS NETWORK

DAVID RIBÓ PÉREZ

Graduate and doctor in Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a doctoral assistant professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València and a visiting researcher at the Delft University of Technology.

David works on the study and development of measures to facilitate a fairer energy transition. His main areas of work and research focus on the development of techno-economic models to design and analyse public policy and regulation.

Among others, it has worked on the study and design of electricity markets with high renewable penetration, the involvement of energy communities and the active participation of the demand side.

ISABEL BASSAS

A graduate in Law from the Universitat de Barcelona, with a postgraduate degree in Tax Consultancy and Management from ESADE, she is an associate lecturer in Financial and Tax Law at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Her first approach to the electricity sector was through energy taxation, having written various publications and given conferences on the matter. Subsequently, he worked with a state-wide business association of energy companies. For more than ten years she has specialized in advising electrical energy distribution companies (DSOs). He currently works in his own office, Bassas Pérez Abogados, and collaborates with SAMSØ on specific projects.

MIREIA MATENCIØ

Graduate in Spanish and French Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the ‘Panthéon-Assas’ University of Paris, Master’s Degree in Energy Law from the Sorbonne University and Master’s Degree in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

After working as a lawyer in an international law firm in Barcelona, Mireia has worked for a French independent producer as an in-house lawyer developing wind, photovoltaic and biogas projects with strong technical and social innovation: participative capital, energy communities, shared self-consumption, wind and photovoltaic hybridisation, local valorisation of energy via PPAs, etc.

She currently combines her work at the Metropolis of Besançon as coordinator of a programme to combat energy poverty with her consultancy and teaching activities.

MANEL FERRI

He is a specialist in mobility, and particularly in mobility to work. He has worked as a mobility technician in the Climate Change Office of the Barcelona Provincial Council, in commuting plans (PDE) in many municipalities, and with the Office of Labor Mobility of the Barcelona City Council in the promotion of company commuting plans (PDE) of the Barcelona City Council and companies based in Barcelona.

A recognised expert and promoter of numerous mobility initiatives, he was awarded the ‘European Talent in Mobility’ prize in 2016 by the Salon des Transports Publics de Paris, organised by GART and UITP.

LAURA PRESICCE

Lecturer in Administrative Law on the Law and Political Science degrees at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She holds a doctorate -and extraordinary doctorate award in Law- from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2021).

His doctoral thesis ‘Los entes locales en la acción climática global: responsabilidades, retos y perspectivas jurídicas’ won the Antoni Pedrol y Ríos prize for the best doctoral thesis in local law and the Josep Miquel Prat Canuts prize for the best doctoral thesis in environmental law from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Laura completed research stays at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the University of Bologna (Italy).

She is a specialist in local policies and administrative actions for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Her research interests include local law, environmental law, climate change and energy transition at the local level, energy poverty and public procurement, among others.

STRATEGIC PARTNER

Daleph is a BCorp strategy and operations consultancy, whose purpose is to promote social progress, the inclusion of people and the development of territories, seeking the highest level of operation and impact of the policies promoted by public and private actors.

With 30 years of experience and a large team of professionals, its strategic alliance with Samsø was born with the desire to amplify and provide the public sector with the best practices and experiences in sustainability and energy transition.