Alfonso Tovar

As a member of the EPC team, Alfonso leads planning, design and optimization of photovoltaic and storage-integrated utility-scale projects from origination to “shovel ready”. Alfonso contributes and supports all of Candela’s areas focusing on the technical aspects of site assessment and site control, management of multi-disciplinary consultants, project risk assessment, permitting, interconnection, cost estimates, technology evaluation, equipment and construction bids, and pre-construction activities.

Alfonso has over 15 years of solar engineering, project management, technical advising, and business development experience in the solar industry in the United States and Latin America. He spent 7 years in Mexico as the director for two solar consulting firms and for a module manufacturer. During this period, he contributed as a technical advisor to more than 2 GW of projects in Mexico, the United States and Chile.

Alfonso is a graduate from the University of California-Merced, where he received a Master’s in Environmental Systems with a focus on solar engineering.