Clients

Ecoimpulso works with a dynamic group of specialists according to project-specific requirements. These include electrical, mechanical, civil and forest engineers as well as lawyers, botanists, geographers to name a few.

In this way, you can be sure that your project will always be handled by professionals with experience in the specific field needed by your project.

The main engineer in our group and general manager of Ecoimpulso is Pablo Faúndez.

Pablo Faúndez is a Forest Engineer (maximum distinction U de Chile, 2000) and MSc in Applied Economics (Imperial College London, 2004).

He has been in wind energy consultancy since 2005, and has vast experience in:

· Wind resource assessments

· Wind resource simulations

· Wind turbine micrositing

· Wind farm technical due diligence and sales / acquisition

· Environmental permitting

· Project evaluation / design optimisation

· Main equipment selection and provision

· Project financing

· Wind and biomass energy economic research

· Sawmill and lumber drying mill design

· Biomass energy projects

· Gas turbine open cycle (Bryton) and combined cycle (Bryton-Rankine) power plant projects

His main publications include:

Faúndez, P. Análisis del desarrollo de la dendroenergía en Chile. Memoria Ingeniería Forestal. Universidad de Chile, 2001. 104p.

Faúndez, P. Potential costs of four short rotation silvicultural regimes used for the production of energy. In: Biomass and Bioenergy Vol. 24, Issue 4-5, pp.373-380, Elsevier Science, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0961-9534(02)00164-2

Faúndez, P. A model to explain investment decisions in renewable energies with a case study for the Chilean wind energy industry. MSc thesis, Imperial College, London University, 2005.

Faúndez, P. Renewable energy in a market-based economy: How to estimate its potential and choose the right incentives. In: Renewable Energy Vol. 33, Issue 8, pp. 1768-1774. Elsevier Science, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2007.09.017

Faundez, P. Renewable energy in the equilibrium mix of electricity supply sources. In: Energy Economics Vol. 67, pp. 28-34. Elsevier Science, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2017.07.015

Faundez, P., Sauma, E., Pérez de Arce, M., Vera, S., Calabrese, J., Osses, P., Manríquez, F., Pereira, A. Designing efficient market interventions theough isoprofi modelling to accelerate the decarbonisation of power systems. In: Renewable Energy 251 (2025) 123398. Elsevier Science, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.123398

ECOIMPULSO Ltda.

SANTIAGO-CHILE

Telephone:

+56 232 243 921

e-mail:

info@ecoim.cl