09:00 – 10:00

Registration and Morning Coffee

10:00 – 10:30

Opening Session and Official Launch.

Welcome remarks from host institutions highlighting the significance of energy planning for investment mobilization and launching the Summit’s objectives.

Moderator: Master of Ceremony

Speakers:

●        Thiago Barral, National Secretary of Energy Transition and Planning, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

●        Francesco La Camera, Director General, IRENA.

●        Luciana Costa, Managing Director, Brazilian Development Bank.

●        Thiago Prado, CEO, Brazilian Energy Research Office.

Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Theater (Arino Ramos Ferreira)

●        Format: High-level remarks

●        Target audience: all participant

10:30 – 11:00

GCEP Introduction.

Moderator: Master of Ceremony

Official presentation of the Global Coalition for Energy Planning, including its vision, structure, and founding principles.

Speakers:

●        Mariana Espécie, Special Advisor to the Minister of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

●        John Middleton, Deputy Head of the Renewable Energy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil.

●        Gustavo Naciff, Advisor to the CEO, Energy Research Office, Brazil.

Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Theater (Arino Ramos Ferreira)

●        Format: Presentation

●        Target audience: all participants

11:00 – 11:30

Session 1: Setting the Scene.

Moderator: Master of Ceremony

This session frames the global investment challenge, highlighting the strategic role of energy planning in unlocking finance, featuring insights from international organizations.

●        Keynote Presentation 1: Bridging the Gap: How Energy Planning Can Unlock Investment

Speaker: Norela Constantinescu, Acting Director of IRENA Innovation and Technology Center, International Renewable Energy Agency.

●        Keynote Presentation 2: Solving the energy investment challenge: How to unlock more private sector finance

Speaker: Espen Mehlum, Head of Energy Transition Intelligence and Regional Acceleration, Centre for Energy and Materials, World Economic Forum.

11:30 – 12:30

Session 2: Building national energy planning institutions to help unlock investment in the energy transition.

Moderator: Ricardo Gorini, Head Renewable Energy Transition Roadmaps, IRENA

Planning ecosystems can vary strongly across countries, with governments adopting different governance structures and encouraging capacities in various institutions in the public and private sectors. While the technical capacity to develop plans can lie in different places, it is imperative for governments to at least develop the capacity to understand and utilize these plans and their outcomes effectively.

Objective: This session will focus on countries’ perspectives, showcasing successful experiences in building institutional frameworks that enable national ownership of energy planning processes. It will highlight diverse approaches to structuring planning institutions, strengthening technical capacity, and ensuring stakeholder engagement; all with the goal of translating energy plans into investment-enabling outcomes.

This session supports GCEP Principles 1 (Promoting transparent and effective energy planning) and 4 (Encouraging national ownership of energy planning processes and inclusive participation).

Scene-setting:

●        Juan Jose Garcia, Programme Officer Clean Energy Transition Scenarios, IRENA.

Panelists:

●       Adam Paulsen, Deputy Director Natural Resources Canada

●       Edward Webber, Deputy Director, International Financing & Sector Transitions, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, UK.

●       Loui Algren, Chief Advisor at the Danish Energy Agency.

●        Thiago Barral, National Secretary of Energy Transition and Planning, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Theater (Arino Ramos Ferreira)

●        Format: Panel

●        Target audience: all participants

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Session 3: Supporting investment environments through engagement with development banks.

Moderator: Antonio Bernardini, Chief of Staff, IRENA.

Energy planning can play a critical role in shaping investment-enabling environments, but this potential is often overlooked. This session will explore how development banks support countries in using energy planning outcomes to create stable investment environments.

Objective: This session will explore how development banks support countries in transforming long-term energy plans into investment-enabling environments. It will focus on the advisory, financial, and institutional support these banks provide to help align planning outputs with the policy, regulatory, and risk frameworks needed to attract capital.

This session supports the implementation of GCEP Principles 1 (Promoting Transparent and Effective Energy Planning) and 3 (Catalyzing Investments through Enabling Environments).

Panelists:

●        Arturo Alarcon, Senior Specialist, Energy Division, Inter-American Development Bank.

●        Claire Nicolas, Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank. 

●        Luciana Costa, Managing Director, BNDES.

Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Theater (Arino Ramos Ferreira)

●        Format: Panel

●        Target audience: all participants

15:00 – 16:00

Session 4: Turning National Energy Plans into Project Pipelines for Investment.

Moderator: Rafaela Guedes, Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)

Although national energy plans increasingly reflect long-term climate and development targets, they often fall short in meeting the bankability criteria needed to mobilize private investment.

Objective: This session will focus on private sector finance perspectives. It will explore how energy planning processes can be structured to support the development of project pipelines, prioritization of investment opportunities, and assessment of financial viability, ultimately improving the alignment between planning outputs and investor requirements.

This session supports GCEP Principle 3 (Catalysing investments by creating enabling environments.)

Panelists:

●        Mungai Kihara,  Deputy Director, Renewable Energy and a member of the Energy Planning Committee, Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Kenya.

●        Alessia De Vita, Technical Advisor on Long-Term Energy Planning and Renewable Energy Grid Integration, GET.transform.

●        João Augusto Carneiro, Head of Infrastructure Investments, IFC, Brazil.

●        Bruce Douglas, Global Renewable Alliance.

●        Ben Backwell, CEO, Global Wind Energy Council.

Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Theater (Arino Ramos Ferreira)

●        Format: Panel

●        Target audience: all participants

16:00 – 16:20

Coffee Break

16:20 – 17:20

Session 5: Planning for Energy Access and Transition Investment.

Moderator: Thiago Ivanoski, Director, Brazilian Energy Research Office.

Lack of access to energy remains a critical global challenge despite tremendous strides in increasing energy access as called for under SDG7. Over 750 million people remain without access to basic electricity and clean cooking. While energy financing has consistently increased, this increase has not been channeled to countries with the biggest needs for improving energy access. Energy planning has the potential to be a data-driven tool that can mobilize the necessary investments to address these challenges. 

Objective: Through successful case studies, this session will examine how inclusive and participatory energy planning processes create investable opportunities for expanding energy access, ensuring development benefits reach underserved communities and contribute to reducing energy poverty.

This session supports GCEP Principles 3 (Catalyzing investments by creating enabling environments) and 4 (Encouraging national ownership of energy planning processes and inclusive participation).

Panelist:

●        Carlos Echevarría, Regional Lead Energy Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank.

●        Alejandra Bernal, IEA Latin America programme officer.

●        Alvin Jose, Head, Energy Transition Planning & Energy Efficiency, SEforALL

●        Gabriela Gutierrez Morales, Director of Partnerships, The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP).

Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Theater (Arino Ramos Ferreira)

●        Format: Panel discussion

●        Target audience: all participants

17:20 – 18:25

Session 6: GCEP in Action: Leveraging Existing Initiatives.

Moderator: Leandro Albuquerque, Program Director, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

Due to the ever-increasing importance placed on national energy planning and its crucial and evolving role in meeting energy and climate targets, many initiatives have been established to facilitate knowledge-sharing and capacity-building in this space.

Objective: This session aims to map and discuss existing regional and global initiatives that can be used to support Global South in enhancing institutional Planning capacity. Initiative representatives will also discuss how they can find synergies among them and with the newly launched GCEP.

This session supports GCEP Principle 5 (Leveraging existing initiatives and partnerships).

Panel discussion 1: Strengthening Institutional Capacities.

This panel will explore how international and regional initiatives support countries in building institutional frameworks for long-term energy planning. Panelists will share how their platforms help shape mandates, coordination, and governance, and how GCEP can build on these efforts.

Panelist:

●        Norela Constantinescu, Acting Director of IRENA Innovation and Technology Center, International Renewable Energy Agency.

●        Martín Abeles, Director of Natural Resources Division, ECLAC

●        Guido Maiulini, head of OLADE's strategic advisory team.

●        Alvin Jose, Head, Energy Transition Planning & Energy Efficiency, SEforALL

Panel discussion 2: Enhancing System Planning through Tools, Data, and Technical Collaboration.

This panel will explore how initiatives support countries by strengthening the data, tools, and system-level collaboration needed for long-term energy planning. Panelists will discuss how their efforts help improve transparency, integration, and implementation of planning outcomes, and how GCEP can help scale access to these resources.

Panelist:

●        Wei Huang, Director Division of Planning, Information and Knowledge Management. IAEA

●        Alejandra Bernal, IEA Latin America programme officer

●        William Blyth, Senior Research Fellow, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, UK- Climate Compatible Growth

●        Diana Abad Hernando, Advisor at the Danish Energy Agency.

●        Tom Wilson, Technical Executive, Principal, Energy Systems & Climate Analysis, EPRI.

 Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Theater (Arino Ramos Ferreira)

●        Format: Panel Discussion

●        Target audience: all participants

09:00 – 10:00

Session 7: GCEP Workstreams – Setting the Scene

Moderator: Thiago Barral, National Secretary of Energy Transition and Planning, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

Building on the strategic discussions from Day 1, this session introduces the proposed workstreams of the Global Coalition for Energy Planning (GCEP). It is designed to provide participants with a shared understanding of the Coalition’s initial areas of focus, and to outline how these workstreams aim to address the planning-finance interface. The session will also set the context for the participatory working sessions that follow.

Objective: To present the structure and thematic scope of GCEP’s proposed workstreams, clarify their intended contributions, and provide a common frame of reference for participants ahead of the collaborative design discussions in Sessions 8 and 9.

Session Details:  

●        Room: Room 4

●        Format:  Roundtable.

●        Target audience: invited participants

Format Description:

●        Round of short presentations to introduce the workstreams vision and proposed focus.

●        Q&A from attendees

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30

Session 8: Building a Shared Vision for Workstreams.

Moderator: Gustavo Naciff, Advisor to the CEO, Brazilian Energy Research Office, Brazil

With the priorities and expected results of the Coalition discussed in the previous session, Coalition members and partners have the opportunity to shape the workstreams highlighted in the GCEP Concept Note and their agendas.

Objective: This session builds on the introduction of the workstreams envisioned for the initiative, and invites participants to collaboratively shape and refine them. Through a short panel and interactive discussions, participants will explore key priorities, identify potential gaps, and begin co-creating the workstreams' future agenda in an inclusive and participatory process.

Session Details:

●        Room: Room 1 or 6

●        Format: World Café

●        Table leads: IRENA, SEforAll, IEA, GCPA & IRENA, and EPRI

●        Target audience: invited participants

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 16:00

Session 9: GCEP Workstreams: Synthesis and Feedback.

Moderator: Mariana Espécie, Special Advisor to the Minister of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

This session builds directly on the collaborative work in Session 8. Each workstream will present a synthesis of its discussions, including key priorities, proposed outputs, delivery formats, and initial contributor roles. Participants will then provide structured feedback to refine the workstream outlines.

Objective: Consolidate inputs from Session 8 into clear outlines for each GCEP workstream, and gather additional feedback from participants to refine them before post-Summit coordination.

Speakers: Table leads from session 8

Session Details:

●        Room: Room 1 or 6

●        Format:  Plenary with audience feedback.

●        Target audience: invited participants

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30

Session 10: Closing Plenary. Aligning on the Way Forward

Moderator: Master of Ceremony

This closing plenary will reflect on the priorities and proposals shaped throughout the Summit. It will highlight points of convergence, offer space for high-level reactions, and position GCEP as a forward-looking platform that supports implementation on the road to COP30 and beyond.

Speakers:

Closing remarks

●        John Middleton, Deputy Head of the Renewable Energy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil.

●        Mariana Espécie, Special Advisor to the Minister of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

●        Arturo Alarcon, Senior Specialist, Energy Division, Inter-American Development Bank.

●        Norela Constantinescu, Acting Director of IRENA Innovation and Technology Center, International Renewable Energy Agency. IRENA

●        Carla Primavera, BNDES.

●        Thiago Barral, National Secretary of Energy Transition and Planning, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil.

Session Details:

●        Room: BNDES Auditorium (Reginaldo Treiger)

●        Format: Closing plenary 

●        Target audience: All participants

09:00 – 10:00

Workshop 1: Data Quality and Modelling Innovation

●        Hosted by: IEA

●        Room: BNDES Auditorium (Reginaldo Treiger)

●        Format: panel

●        Target audience: all participants

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30

Workshop 2: Transmission Planning Approaches for Renewable Integration and Hydrogen and Datacenter Interconnection

●        Hosted by: EPRI

●        Room: BNDES Auditorium (Reginaldo Treiger)

●        Format: panel

●        Target audience: all participants

 11:30 – 12:30

Keynote Presentation 1: Brazil's Renewable Energy Power Case Study (BNDES, and IRENA)

●        Presented by: Guilherme Arantes (BNDES) and Ricardo Gorini (Irena)

●        Room: BNDES Auditorium (Reginaldo Treiger)

●        Format: presentation + Q&A

●        Target audience: all participants

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Workshop 3: Practical Planning and Modelling for Resilient Energy Infrastructure

●        Hosted by: EPRI

●        Room: BNDES Auditorium (Reginaldo Treiger)

●        Format: panel

●        Target audience: all participants

15:00 – 16:00

Workshop 4: Energy Planning for Access and Transition 

●        Hosted by: SEforALL

●        Room: BNDES Auditorium (Reginaldo Treiger)

●        Format: TBD

●        Target audience: all participants

16:00 – 16:30    

Coffee Break