Nuno is an environmental engineer (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), a certified project manager (MSc; La Salle Buiness School) and a dedicated entrepreneur. For the past 10 years he has worked in the European Parliament as an advisor for energy and environmental policy (BE), as an innovation consultant in Spain and Portugal (ATEKNEA) and as a project manager for large scale renewable energy projects (EDP).Since 2012 Nuno is a co-founder and current CEO of Boa Energia and president of the board of Coopérnico (Portugal’s first renewable energy cooperative).
Having faced many difficulties and barriers to his initiatives in citizen investment RES, such as colliding with the different frameworks throughout Europe and the strong limitations imposed to international investments, he envisioned a European framework for European Renewable Energy crowdfunding and a platform to aggregate all the existing national-level initiatives, and where citizens from all over Europe could invest in a RES project from any part of Europe. This is how CITIZENERGY was born
