Gil Maranhão Neto has been working in the Brazilian power sector for 30 years and has co-managed the development, licensing, financing and construction of 10,000 MW of hydropower plants.

ENGIE is one of the largest energy and services companies in the world and in Brazil controls and operates over 12,000 MW of installed capacity in 70 power plants of renewable sources (mainly big HPPs). This makes the company the biggest 100 per cent renewable electricity producer in the country, with around seven per cent of the installed capacity. ENGIE has built a reputation of allying professionalism, profitability, and social and environmental responsibility in implementing and operating large hydropower plants in the country.

Gil has been an IHA Board member since October 2009 and subsequently elected Vice-President in 2013.

ENGIE is one of the first companies to use the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol, assessing the Jirau HPP under construction, in 2013.

The plant is now being assessed with the Hydropower Sustainability Standard, to be certified. ENGIE has adhered to the San Jose Declaration on Sustainable Hydropower.

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