About

A highly decorated and well-regarded legal professional who has been recognised by the industry press as among the very best in his profession in Peru, Renzo Javier Salazar Vallejo built his fearsome reputation on the back of his tireless efforts in developing energy businesses and infrastructure projects across the Andean region. Since 2012, Renzo has worked in the energy area of the Rubio Leguia Normand law firm and then the in-house legal team of Grupo Cobra; he is now legal counsel for The National Interconnected System Economical Operation Committee (COES-SINAC) and board member of the Peruvian Committee of World Energy Council (WEC). Salazar has a number of personal highlights to look back on. ‘Between 2015 and 2017’, he explains, ‘I was designated as a Future Energy Leader by the international World Energy Council based in London (FEL-100) together with 99 other exceptional young professionals elected from all around the world’. It must be highlighted that according to the website of the FEL-100 this programme ‘is designed to help shape, inspire and grow the energy leaders of tomorrow’ who must be able to ‘solve the world’s most pressing challenges regarding energy and sustainability’. As well as this, Salazar has amassed an enviable succession of prestigious speaking engagements, interviews, and opinion articles, highlighting the esteem in which he is held by the wider legal and energy community. In that respect, during 2017 he has been called to collaborate with articles and opinions in the prestigious Peruvian newspaper named Gestion. Most recently, he spoke at the Peruvian Energy New and Renewable Energy Conference 2017 and the Multilatinas Forum 2017 in Peru and the Energyear Conference 2017 in Colombia. Moreover, during 2017 Salazar was interviewed by Miraflores TV (Peru), HCM Radio (Peru) and Telemedellin TV (Colombia), in which he talked about new opportunities to invest in the energy sector in Latin America. In terms of the projects that he is most proud of working on, he mentions that he ‘participated in the development and operation of renewable concessions of 32.5-MW Marcona Wind Power Plant and 97-MW, Tres Hermanas Wind Power Plant, as well as the 223-MW Eten Cold Reserve Power Plant (acting by and through its shareholder Cobra Group)’. These projects received international acclaim from the industry press sources. Currently, Salazar is absolving inquiries about new rules and the last changes in the Peruvian electrical market and, sometimes, in the Andean region.