Government announces new secretaries of the Ministry of Mines and Energy

It was announced this Thursday (09) by the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, the names of new secretaries that will lead the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).

The names chosen are: Gentil Nogueira, for the Electric Energy Secretariat (SEE); Pietro Mendes, for the Secretariat of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (SPG); and Thiago Barral, for the Secretariat of Planning and Energy Transition (SPE).

According to Silveira, the new team has a technical profile and extensive experience in the electrical energy, fuels and energy planning sectors. “The technical capacity of the team is essential to face the great complexity and challenges of the portfolio”.

“The team will work to ensure that the country’s resources are explored in a timely manner for the entire Brazilian population and also for future generations”, highlighted the minister.

CV of the new MME secretaries

Gentil Nogueira de Sá Junior – Secretary of Electric Energy

Mechanical Engineer graduated from the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), with specializations in Electric Energy Regulatory Law and Regulatory Impact Analysis (AIR), both from UnB. Gentil Nogueira began his career in 2001, in the industry supplying electromechanical equipment for generating electrical energy.

From 2007 to 2016, he worked in the areas of generation supervision, generation regulation and economic and market regulation by the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel). He also served as deputy superintendent of Generation Services Regulation (SRG) and in May 2019 took over the Superintendency of Generation Services Inspection (SFG) at Aneel.

Pietro Mendes – Secretary of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels

Graduated in Law from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), he has a degree and bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He has a PhD in Science from the Postgraduate Program in Chemical and Biochemical Process Technology at the School of Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in addition to having an Executive Postgraduate Degree in Oil and Gas from the Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós -Graduation and Engineering Research (COPPE).

With more than 14 years of experience, Pietro Mendes is a specialist in regulation and also held a public tender by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP). He served as advisor to the General Director and Deputy Superintendent of Biofuels and Product Quality, in addition to being Director of Legal Affairs at the National Union of Career Servants of Federal Regulatory Agencies (UnaReg). Pietro was also Director of the Biofuels Department of the MME's Secretariat of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (SPG).

Thiago Barral – Secretary of Energy Planning

Thiago Barral has a degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), a master's degree in Water Resources and the Environment from the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Engineering Research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) and a postgraduate degree in Public Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas do Rio de Janeiro (FGV/RJ).

He began his career at the Energy Research Company (EPE) in 2007, assuming the presidency in 2019. He served as Director of Economic-Energy and Environmental Studies – being mainly responsible for carrying out market and energy demand studies, distributed generation , energy efficiency, environmental studies of hydroelectric plants and transmission lines, among others.

He also assumed the Superintendence of Generation Projects in coordinating the technical qualification process and calculating the ceiling prices for energy auctions, planning the supply to isolated systems, developing inventory and technical-economic feasibility studies for hydroelectric plants. In this same Superintendency, he held the position of Deputy Superintendent from September 2013 to September 2016.