Hernán Treviño Cantú
Deacero
Director of Energy and Sustainability
Hernán Treviño Cantú is Director of Energy and Sustainability at Deacero, a steel manufacturing group that operates electric arc furnaces in Mexico and ranks among the country’s largest industrial electricity consumers. In this role, he structures and manages long-term contracts with renewable energy generators and utility-scale storage developers, oversees the company’s exposure to Mexico’s Wholesale Electricity Market, and leads Deacero’s decarbonization strategy in alignment with international standards.
He began his career at Hunt Power and Hunt Oil Company, where he was involved in electricity trading operations in the Texas power market, cross-border bilateral transactions between the United States and Mexico, and the development of international transmission infrastructure. He later joined After Hours Capital, a fund specializing in energy-sector financial derivatives.
At Deacero, he was part of the team that positioned the company as the first Qualified User and Market Participant in Mexico’s Wholesale Electricity Market. As Director, he has led the structuring of power purchase agreements representing nearly 2 TWh of clean energy and the development of the first carbon trading desk in Mexico’s steel industry. Deacero is the first company in Mexico to achieve certification from the Global Steel Climate Council and the first steel producer in North America to have its decarbonization targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), commitments that underpin long-term demand for the projects the company supports and anchors.
Hernán holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and Administration from Tecnológico de Monterrey, a Master’s-level education in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, and completed the D-1 Executive Management Program at IPADE Business School.
He will participate in the session on structuring bankable projects from the perspective of the industrial buyer, exploring how a major energy user evaluates counterparty, market, technology, currency, and volume risks when committing as an anchor offtaker and, in some cases, as an equity investor in capital-intensive projects.