Season 1 | Ep11 - Francisco Díez Quiralte on Building a 100+ person team in LATAM and Why India is in a league of it's own

Season 1 | Ep11 - Francisco Díez Quiralte on Building a 100+ person team in LATAM and Why India is in a league of it's own

27:22 Oct 22, 2025
About this episode
In this episode of the REM Podcast, host Tom Essex speaks with Francisco Díez Quiralte, former Global Head of Business Development at Zelestra.Francisco’s career spans three continents, having originated large-scale renewable energy projects across Spain, Germany, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, India and more.They talk about:How he built a 100+ person team across Latin America from scratchCompeting with global players like Enel and ENGIE, winning hybrid auctionsWhy India is years ahead of Europe in designing truly dispatchable renewablesWhat Spain could have learned from Chile’s early grid failuresWhat he misses about the chaos of a global career, and what he’s building nextConnect with Francisco: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-díez-quiralte-21863637/Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/
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