Sylvia Leyva Martinez

Sylvia Leyva Martinez is a Research Director at Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables team, where she leads market intelligence of the global solar market. She also hosts the Interchange Recharged podcast, reaching 27,000 monthly listeners. Sylvia’s focus areas are utility-scale solar, market intelligence and forecasting, solar + storage economics, AI and datacenter power demand, project finance structures, offtake strategy, and module supply chain dynamics. Sylvia is a seasoned public speaker, presenting at international events like RE+ and Intersolar & Energy Storage North America, at executive events across the sector, and to C-suite and senior stakeholders across organizations. She has been quoted in the Financial Times, Reuters, and CNBC. Sylvia also participates as interim President of the WRISE Houston Chapter, where she works to advance women’s leadership in the clean energy industry.