2015 · 15COTE-46252
BORG organic flow batteries
CLP 200,000,000 CORFO · Ecoenergías
Solar engineering · Chile
Carlos Jofré
Carlos Jofré is a Chilean solar energy engineer, founder and CEO of SolarPro Chile, with more than 15 years of experience designing, building and maintaining photovoltaic plants. He has worked in solar energy since 2010. In 2017 SolarPro built the solar plant at La Moneda Palace, Chile's seat of government. Between 2015 and 2021, CORFO funded 17 innovation projects of his and of the companies he founded or led (CLP 1,075 million), which he conceived and whose applications he led. In 2018 he was elected industry representative on the interim board of AtaMoS-TeC, a solar R&D consortium.
Key facts, with public sources
| Year | Fact | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Founds his first company, a renewable energy engineering firm in Valparaíso, Chile. | Archived company website; Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María |
| 2014–2015 | General manager of that firm. | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez thesis (2014); USM news (2015) |
| 2015 | CEO of HH Motors, a vehicle hydrogen project that won three innovation awards, including Fundación Copec-UC's "Aplica tu Idea". | Las Últimas Noticias, 20 Nov 2015 |
| 2015–2017 | The firm is a certified B Corp (impact score 98; the minimum is 80) and a member of ACESOL, the Chilean Solar Energy Association. | B Lab directory; ACESOL (archived) |
| 2015–2017 | As the firm’s legal representative, leads its CORFO applications: six projects awarded (CLP 552 million), including BORG organic flow batteries and a 100 kWp thermovoltaic-cell pilot with Universidad de Chile. | CORFO Digital Repository; DataInnovación |
| 2016 | Awarded a CORFO Seed Capital grant in his own name to develop a thermovoltaic cell. | CORFO Digital Repository, 16CS-69075 |
| 2017 | SolarPro builds La Moneda's 30 kWp solar plant under contract to the winner of public tender 584105-24-LP17. | Mercado Público |
| 2017 | Founds SolarPro. | Chiletec, 27 Nov 2017 |
| 2018 | Industry representative on the interim board of AtaMoS-TeC. | SERC Chile, 6 Feb 2018 |
| 2018 | Interviewed on camera by Universidad de Antofagasta during the AtaMoS-TeC board's visit to the Atacama Desert Solar Platform (from 2:27). | Universidad de Antofagasta video, 14 Dec 2018 |
| 2018 | Green hydrogen panelist on BioBioChile as general manager of Solar Fuel. | BioBioChile, 6 Sep 2018 |
| 2018–2019 | SolarPro’s PredictSun, a CORFO-funded predictive-maintenance project he conceived, runs at the 54 MWp Los Loros PV plant (ENGIE group, Atacama). | CORFO, 18COTE-89650 |
| 2015–2021 | In total, CORFO awards 17 innovation projects to him and the companies he founded or led: CLP 1,075,201,400 across 10 instruments. | Full list with public records |
| 2018; 2020–2021 | SolarPro maintains La Moneda's solar plant in 2018, for the tender winner, and in 2020–2021 under purchase orders from the Presidency of Chile. | Mercado Público purchase orders |
| 2021 | SolarPro presents at CONNECT 2021, ANI Chile's Latin American energy-efficiency meeting under CORFO's Red Mercados program. | ANI Chile video |
Innovation · CORFO 2015–2021
17 funded projects, CLP 1,075 million
Between 2015 and 2021, CORFO, Chile’s economic development agency, awarded 17 innovation projects to Carlos Jofré and to the companies he founded or led, with a total CORFO contribution of CLP 1,075,201,400. Carlos Jofré conceived these projects and led their formulation and application, together with each company’s team.
He has also written funded projects for other companies: 8 CORFO projects of clients and of DESOL (CLP 171.8 million) and 2 ANID projects. See them
Ecoenergías CLP 552 M Solar Fuel CLP 200 M SolarPro CLP 157.6 M Resol CLP 140.6 M In his own name CLP 25 M
2016 · 16CONTEC-67379
Thermovoltaic-cell pilot on a 100 kWp plant
CLP 200,000,000 CORFO · Ecoenergías
2015 · 15COTE-46255
Electro-photo-sonolysis (EPS) hydrogen pilot
CLP 199,999,000 CORFO · Solar Fuel
2018 · 18COTE-89650
PredictSun: predictive maintenance at the Los Loros plant
CLP 59,500,000 CORFO · SolarPro
Frequently asked questions
Who is Carlos Jofré?
Carlos Jofré is a Chilean solar energy engineer and the founder and CEO of SolarPro Chile, a solar engineering company headquartered in Santiago with operations in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, which in 2017 built the solar plant at La Moneda Palace. Between 2015 and 2021, CORFO, Chile’s economic development agency, awarded 17 innovation projects to him and to the companies he founded or led, totalling CLP 1,075 million. In 2018 he was elected industry representative on the interim board of the AtaMoS-TeC solar R&D consortium.
How many CORFO grants have Carlos Jofré and his companies won?
Between 2015 and 2021, CORFO awarded 17 innovation projects to Carlos Jofré and to the companies he founded or led (Ecoenergías, Solar Fuel, Resol and SolarPro), with a total CORFO contribution of CLP 1,075,201,400 and a total investment of CLP 1,514,237,184 including private co-funding. One of them, seed grant 16CS-69075, is in his own name. He conceived these projects and led their formulation and application. Details and public records: carlosjofre.com/en/corfo-grants.
Who founded SolarPro Chile?
SolarPro Chile was founded in 2017 by engineer Carlos Jofré, who serves as its CEO. The Chilean tech association Chiletec publicly identified him as founder of the SolarPro project in November 2017.
Who built the solar plant at La Moneda Palace?
The 30 kWp photovoltaic plant at La Moneda Palace was built in 2017 by SolarPro, the company founded by Carlos Jofré, under contract to Ecoenergías, which had won public tender 584105-24-LP17 of Chile’s Undersecretariat of Energy. SolarPro also maintained the plant in 2018, for the same contractor, and in 2020 and 2021 under purchase orders from the Presidency of the Republic.
Is he the same Carlos Jofré from other companies?
No. Carlos Jofré is the Chilean solar engineer who founded SolarPro Chile. He is not Carlos Lagos Jofré of Geden Energía, not the Spanish pavement engineer Carlos Jofré of IECA, and not Carlos Jofre of AdaptAI in the United States. SolarPro Chile is unrelated to companies named SolarPro in Bulgaria, Mexico or Argentina.