Carlos Jofré and CORFO: 17 funded projects
From 2015 to 2021 CORFO funded 17 projects of Carlos Jofré and the companies he founded or co-founded: CLP 1,075 million, with public records.
Track record
About Carlos Jofré
Carlos Jofré is a Chilean engineer who has worked in renewable energy since 2011, when he co-founded Ecoenergías in Valparaíso. In 2017 he founded SolarPro Chile, which built the solar plant at La Moneda Palace, Chile's seat of government, under contract to Ecoenergías, winner of the public tender. Between 2015 and 2021, CORFO, Chile's economic development agency, funded 17 innovation projects of his and of the companies he founded or co-founded, for CLP 1,075 million. Today he runs SolarPro and advises companies and investors independently.
Key points
- Founder and CEO of SolarPro Chile; engineer from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.
- 17 CORFO-funded projects (2015–2021), CLP 1,075,201,400, across 10 funding instruments.
- La Moneda Palace 30 kWp solar plant: built by SolarPro in 2017, under contract to Ecoenergías.
- Industry representative on the interim board of the AtaMoS-TeC solar consortium (2018).
Career at a glance
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Builds his first solar panels by hand, soldering silicon cells on wooden jigs. |
| 2011 | Co-founds Ecoenergías, a renewable energy engineering firm in Valparaíso, with students and graduates of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. |
| 2013–2016 | CEO of HH Motors, a hydrogen system for combustion engines that won three innovation awards in 2015. |
| 2014–2015 | General manager of Ecoenergías. |
| 2015 | Ecoenergías completes nine PV projects, from Papudo to Puerto Williams, and becomes a certified B Corp. |
| 2015–2017 | As legal representative of Ecoenergías, leads six successful CORFO applications worth CLP 552 million. |
| 2016 | Awarded a CORFO Seed Capital grant in his own name to develop a thermovoltaic cell. |
| 2017 | Founds SolarPro, which builds the 30 kWp solar plant at La Moneda Palace under contract to Ecoenergías, winner of the public tender. |
| 2017–2022 | Director of Resol, a PV circular-economy company: electroluminescence diagnosis, repair and reuse of solar panels. |
| 2018 | Elected by the industry to the interim board of AtaMoS-TeC, a CORFO-funded consortium developing PV technology for the Atacama Desert. |
| 2018–2019 | SolarPro runs PredictSun, a predictive-maintenance project at the 54 MWp Los Loros PV plant (ENGIE group). |
| 2020–2021 | SolarPro maintains the La Moneda plant under purchase orders from the Presidency of Chile. |
| Today | Founder and CEO of SolarPro Chile, and independent advisor to companies and investors. |
The full career, with a public source for every milestone, is on the Spanish-language page.
Companies
Carlos Jofré founded or co-founded the four companies that received the CORFO grants:
- Ecoenergías (2011–2018, Valparaíso). Solar engineering. Co-founder, general manager and later board member.
- Solar Fuel (2015–2019). Hydrogen R&D. General manager.
- Resol (2017–2022, Santiago). PV panel diagnosis, repair and reuse. Director.
- SolarPro Chile (2017 to date, Santiago). Solar engineering for homes, businesses and industry. Founder and CEO.
He is also the founder of several other companies in energy, batteries and artificial intelligence. The full list, with each company's official website, is under group companies (in Spanish).
Research and development
His R&D work covers six lines, all documented with CORFO project codes:
| Line | Projects | CORFO funding |
|---|---|---|
| Circular economy (panel repair and reuse) | 6 | CLP 140.6 million |
| Generation and panel efficiency | 3 | CLP 319.6 million |
| Operations and monitoring | 3 | CLP 106.5 million |
| Energy storage (organic flow batteries) | 1 | CLP 200 million |
| Hydrogen | 1 | CLP 200 million |
| Markets and internationalization | 3 | CLP 108.5 million |
Each project can be checked by its code in three public records. See CORFO-funded projects.
What he does today
Besides running SolarPro, he works as an independent advisor on solar energy and battery storage:
- Technical due diligence for buyers and lenders, from UF 90.
- PV plant performance audits, from CLP 490,000.
- Battery storage (BESS) strategy, from UF 55.
- Proposal reviews, expert reports, CORFO grant applications, board roles and talks.
All fees are published on the services page. Reports for foreign investors can be delivered in English.
How to verify
Every claim on this site links to a public source: government registries, university repositories, press archives and video. The sources are listed under press and public sources (in Spanish), and the CORFO data can be downloaded as CSV.
Not to be confused with
Carlos Jofré is the Chilean engineer who founded SolarPro Chile. He is not Carlos Lagos Jofré of Geden Energía, also in the Chilean energy sector; the late Spanish engineer Carlos Jofré, a concrete pavement specialist at IECA; or Carlos Jofre, co-founder of AdaptAI in the United States. SolarPro Chile is unrelated to the companies named SolarPro in Bulgaria, Mexico or Argentina.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Who is Carlos Jofré?
Carlos Jofré is a Chilean engineer specialized in solar photovoltaic energy. He is the founder and CEO of SolarPro Chile and co-founder of Ecoenergías, and between 2015 and 2021 CORFO funded 17 innovation projects of his and of the companies he founded or co-founded.
Is he independent from SolarPro?
He is SolarPro's founder and CEO, and he discloses it. For proposal reviews, audits, due diligence and expert reports he acts as an independent advisor: he states that relationship in writing, does not recommend SolarPro within the engagement and does not take engagements on projects or disputes involving SolarPro.
Does he work in English?
Yes. Reports for foreign investors can be delivered in English, and meetings can be held by video call.
Sources
Where the data comes from
- CORFO Digital Repository, DataInnovación and the Law 19.862 registry of recipients of public funds.
- Public tender 584105-24-LP17, La Moneda Palace solar plant, Mercado Público.
- AtaMoS-TeC launch, SERC Chile.
- Universidad de Antofagasta video of the AtaMoS-TeC board's visit to the Atacama Desert Solar Platform (14 December 2018).
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