Silvio Ventura

Silvio has over 38 years of professional experience, starting 1983 as logistic automation design engineer in the industrial, building, energy and infrastructure sectors, holding various positions at Siemens Madrid until 2006.

In 2007 he joined the renewable energy sector for Alatec Ingenieros Consultores y Arquitectos to develop its Renewable Energy & Environment Business Unit (BU), leading a team of multidisciplinary and multicultural engineers and customers, that was further sold and taken over in 2013 by Diseprosa and in 2018 by the OCA Global Group until 2021 with activity and projects ongoing in several countries over Europe, Africa, LatinAmerica and Middle East. Silvio joined the ILF Consulting Engineers Group in 2022 as its manager for the Branch Office in Madrid and the Group’s Wind Competence Center.

His expertise from a management perspective encompasses the overall project development phases from feasibility studies to commissioning, budgeting, resourcing and project direction, coordination and management of teams for construction, engineering and commissioning of power plants, training / capacity building, financial evaluation, EPC procurement, contract management, contract negotiations, senior consultancy and technical advisory, RE project financing, project evaluation.

Project highlights: he is currently involved as a Senior Consultant and Project Manager in giga-scale renewable energy projects worldwide, such as the pre-development of 3,5 GW wind farm projects and the evaluation of 60 potential wind farm sites in Saudi Arabia or the development of green hydrogen projects fully powered by GW scale PV and Windfarms. Formerly, he managed and supervised owners engineering and technical due diligence services for over 15 GW of solar PV, solar CSP, Wind and mini hydro projects in Spain, Europe and overseas.