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Energy Economist
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In 2022, Nina Melendez led the technical-economic modeling that exposed how Colombia’s proposed wind tariff structure would unintentionally favor foreign developers over local cooperatives, prompting a redesign of Resolution CREG 035. Raised in Barranquilla near decommissioned thermal plants, she approaches energy economics not as abstract curves but as lived infrastructure: the rust on transmission towers, the wage gaps between solar installers in La Guajira and Bogotá engineers, the way subsidy timelines intersect with municipal election cycles. Her work bridges granular cost-of-capital calculations for Andean microgrids with macro-level stress tests of Latin American power pools under drought-driven hydro shortfalls. She publishes bilingual policy briefs that embed Excel model links directly in footnotes, not as appendices, and refuses to use 'levelized cost' without specifying whose discount rate and whose risk premium. Her lens is relentlessly regional: no global averages, no OECD defaults, just the weighted average cost of capital for Antioquian community energy trusts versus Medellín-based IPPs.
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