Regional Dialogues on Planning-to-Investment — Latin America and the Caribbean
The Global Coalition for Energy Planning (GCEP) will convene three weekly virtual sessions from 2 to 18 June 2026 on the planning-to-investment interface in Latin America and the Caribbean. Co-hosted by IRENA — in its capacity as Secretariat of the Coalition — the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Government of Brazil as Coalition Chair for the 2025–2026 cycle, the Cycle will gather planning institutions, regulators, system operators, development banks, and private financiers to discuss how national energy plans can better support the institutional and financial decisions that turn plans into infrastructure.
Background
Across LAC, the challenge is no longer the absence of plans but the persistent gap between what plans communicate and what regulators, developers, and financiers can act on. Closing this gap is essential to delivering the COP28 UAE Consensus goal of tripling renewable power capacity to 11.2 TW by 2030. The LAC Cycle is the first in a regional sequence that will extend to Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Sessions
- Session 1 — Investor signals from energy plans (2 June 2026)
- Session 2 — Grids, flexibility, and storage as investability conditions (11 June 2026)
- Session 3 — Institutional configurations and instruments that mobilise capital (18 June 2026)
Partners
- IRENA
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Government of Brazil (Ministry of Mines and Energy)
Logistics
- Format: Virtual (Zoom Webinar)
- Duration: 90 minutes per session
- Language: English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation
- Time: 15:00 CET / 17:00 GST
Registration
Registration links will be made available ahead of each session. You can find the full concept note and agenda here. For more information, contact gcep@irena.org or visit gcep-irena.org.