Chema Zabala

Managing Director Alantra Energy Transition at Alantra Energy Transition

Speaker

He has spent the last 17+ years at the intersection of energy markets, strategy and investment, helping investors, developers and lenders understand how changing power markets translate into asset value, risk and bankability.

His core belief: the next phase of the energy transition is not just about deploying more MW. It is about understanding how those MW create value in increasingly complex power markets.

Flexibility, location, market design, revenue stacking and contracting structures are becoming as important to investment returns as technology and capex.

Today, he leads Energy Transition market and strategic advisory at Alantra, with a particular focus on renewables, battery storage and hybrid assets. Alongside advising clients, he has focused on building businesses, teams and new advisory propositions around emerging market opportunities — combining an entrepreneurial mindset with deep sector expertise.

His work connects energy-market intelligence and modelling with real investment and financing decisions — from market entry and asset valuation to route-to-market, PPAs and bankability.

He works across the investor, developer and lender ecosystem, with one objective: turning energy-market complexity into better capital allocation and investment decisions.