{"id":3625,"date":"2020-07-06T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:39:18","slug":"alums-feature-manuel-wiechers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/alums-feature-manuel-wiechers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alums Feature: Manuel Wiechers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3628 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/site\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Manuel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/site\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Manuel.png 496w, https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/site\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Manuel-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/site\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Manuel-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/site\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Manuel-379x380.png 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manuel Wiechers, mexico<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>COO Ilum\u00e9xico<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Winner of Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Energy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>SES 2009 delegate, SES 2017 Changemaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manuel Wiechers (Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Energy) sparked his passion at the 2009 Student Energy Summit, where he was inspired to co-found the social enterprise Ilum\u00e9xico building solar home systems in off grid areas. Manuel\u2019s company has provided energy access to more than 10,000 people with over 1700 installations and over 25 kW of installed solar capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>My company was inspired directly at SES and we are a young team&#8230;[You] can make a living and have a huge impact at the same time<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel Wiechers, mexico COO Ilum\u00e9xico Winner of Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Energy SES 2009 delegate, SES 2017 Changemaker Manuel Wiechers (Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Energy) sparked his passion at the 2009 Student Energy Summit, where he was inspired to co-found the social enterprise Ilum\u00e9xico building solar home systems in off grid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentenergy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}