Biography:

Julio Eisman Valdés is an Electromechanical Engineer from ICAI (1973) and graduated from the IESE General Management Program in 1998.

He started working at Hidroeléctrica Española in 1973 in engineering protection and control systems, participating in the electrical design of substations and of hydraulic generation plants (Cedillo, Gabriel y Galán, Guijo de Granadilla, La Muela), nuclear (Almaraz, Vandellós II, Valdecaballeros, Ascó) and combined cycles (Castellón, Aceca, Soto de Ribera, Castejón). He was also in charge of the maintenance of the protection system, reporting on the analysis and recommendations on network disturbances and on the technical relationship with large clients.

At this time, he takes various protection courses at ABB (Sweden) and General Electric (USA) and participates, as a Spanish member, in the CIGRE Protection Committee and in the Relay, Disturbance and Instrument Transformer Committees of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

In 1991, after the merger with Iberduero to form Iberdrola, he was responsible for the engineering and operation of the protection system, to later take charge of the engineering of Substations and Lines. After the constitution of Iberdrola Engineering and Consulting (Iberinco) he was appointed Network Manager. In 2000, he assumed the general management of Iberinco, becoming part of the Iberdrola Management Committee.

In 2004 he liquidated his contract with Iberdrola and began to collaborate as a volunteer with Energía sin Fronteras on its Board of Directors as head of Studies and later as Project Manager. He participates in projects related to access to electricity in Guatemala, Peru, DR Congo, Benin, …

In 2008 he joined ACCIONA, S.A. to start up the Acciona Microenergy Foundation, of which he is Director until 2017. At that time, he develops an electricity supply model based on solar home systems for isolated rural communities in developing countries, named Luz en Casa.

In 2009 he created the non-profit association Acciona Microenergía Perú (AMP), holding the position of Vice President, for the implementation of the Luz en Casa model in the department of Cajamarca and later in Loreto.

In 2010, AMP joined the regulated system and is recognized as a supplier of the public electricity service. In 2021 it supplies electricity to some 23,500 people.

In 2012, he launched the non-profit association Acciona Microenergía México (AMM), holding the vice presidency, to implement the Luz en Casa model in public-private collaboration with the Government of the State of Oaxaca and the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (AECID). In 2021, AMM provides electrical access with home photovoltaic systems to some 36,000 mexicans.

In 2017 he became an advisor to Acciona.org (new name of Fundación ACCIONA Microenergía) and devoted himself to the implementation of the Luz en Casa model in three refugee camps in Tigray (Ethiopia), until 2020 when the project was interrupted by the armed conflict in the area.

Since 2008 he has been a member of the Engineering and Sustainable Development Committee of the Spanish Institute of Engineering and in November 2021 he is appointed Vice President of the Committee.

Since October 2020 he is a board member of the ICAI Engineers Foundation where he develops his activities promoting the mobilization of volunteers from the group of engineers for technical assistance to non-profit organizations, and in collaboration with other entities.