Enabling a Just Electrification: Integrated Solutions for the Future of the Power Sector in Latin America

Latin America and other middle-power economies face a dual challenge: securing reliable and flexible power systems to support electrification and industrial transformation, while avoiding a new cycle of fossil lock-in. Decisions taken today, such as how capacity is procured, which technologies can compete, and how system costs are allocated, will shape electricity tariffs, industrial competitiveness and climate outcomes for decades. Renewable generation, storage, demand response and grids must expand together with sound regulation, finance, environmental safeguards and meaningful participation of communities.

This one-hour session brings together Brazilian organizations working on power-sector regulation, energy access, environmental governance and economic justice, followed by a dialogue with experts from Latin America and other middle-power countries. Building on Brazil’s experience with its 2026 capacity auctions, it will exchange practical solutions on how to plan and procure reliable, flexible and affordable clean power, and will identify shared messages to carry forward to COP31.