SAMCA's Energy Director, Javier del Pico, new president of CIRCE's Board of Trustees

The Director of the Energy Business Area of the Aragonese company SAMCA, Javier del Pico, has been appointed new President of CIRCE's Board of Trustees. The appointment was made during the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, the entity's highest governing body, unanimously. Javier del Pico (Zaragoza, 1971) has held the position of Director of the Energy Business Area in the SAMCA Group for 23 years. Among other responsibilities related to the support in energy matters to the other areas of SAMCA, he leads the development and operation of an electricity generation capacity of more than 500 MW, distributed in cogeneration plants, wind farms, solar thermal power plants and solar photovoltaic plants, capacity to which new projects in the final stages of development will soon be added. Although Del Pico has spent most of his career at SAMCA, he started as an intern at CIRCE in the summers of 1994 and 1995, working at the 'Teruel' (Andorra) and 'Escatrón' thermal power plants.

Del Pico faces this position with the "maximum responsibility" and aligned with CIRCE's commitment to promote the improvement of energy efficiency and the deployment of renewable energies through the development of R&D&I activities and training actions that respond to the needs of the national and international productive sectors, contributing to sustainable development. 

Similarly, he praises the work of CIRCE, which he considers "one of the main international benchmark technology centres in the field of energy" and values innovation as a "determining factor" within the business fabric. "The massive use of renewable resources, energy efficiency in consumption, the development of storage systems, smart grids, electric mobility and the use of hydrogen are just some of the areas that will require major innovations in order to make the levels of quality of life and progress that we demand as a society compatible with the urgent need to reduce human influence on climate change", argues Del Pico, who stresses that "companies need support from technology centres that allow them to reduce the time and risks inherent in innovation processes".