DR. FELIPE ANDRÉS TORO
Dr. Felipe Andrés Toro is a graduate civil engineer, and in 2003 also successfully completed an MBA in resources, energy and the environment. In the year 2014, alongside his professional commitments, he obtained a PhD at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in cooperation with the Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategies (IREES) and Fraunhofer, on the topic ‘Alternative fuels and energy efficiency in cars’.
Since 2006 he has served as Senior Scientist at IREES GmbH, focusing on the following research areas: Energy-efficient production processes in industry; heating and cooling demand projections in industry and in the trades, commerce and services sector; and the development of future strategies and policy measures with the aid of model-based scenario analyses in Germany, Europe and Latin America (Brazil). His work also focuses on identifying existing obstacles that hinder investment in measures to increase energy efficiency in companies.
RESEARCH AND WORK FOCUS
Non-Energy Benefits of Energy Efficiency Investments (Since 2018)
Impact of Multiple Benefits for Investment decision making in companies (since 2018)
Development of useful energy balances and energy planning advisory
for Ministries and Governments in developing and transition Economies
Energy demand projections and long-term simulations of
energy efficiency in developing and newly industrialised countriesIdentification, evaluation and conception of energy efficiency and
climate change policy measures in industry and in the trades, commerce and services sectorDevelopment of strategies and policy measures