ERHAN ÇAKAR

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Biography

Erhan Cakar has a BSc Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bosphorus University, Turkey in 1975 and MSc Degree in Food Process Engineering from Reading University, UK in 1976.

Before renewable energy, for +30 years he has worked in top management in few companies and holdings as well as with his own company, he completed 19 industrial investment projects as a turnkey basis, from feasibility to start-up as project leader, by managing the projects in all stages of civil, mechanical, electrical works also as process designing, engineering, purchasing, contracting, construction, installation, starting up and training.

Now, Erhan Cakar is the chairman and founder of the companies of RENES Enerji and BFP Enerji AS,  a partnership with BFP Group in Italy. He has been providing engineering, consulting operation and maintenance services for renewable energy systems, including mainly Solar, Wind, and Bioenergy Systems in Turkey and all over the World since 2009.

Erhan Cakar is a vice president in the EUROSOLAR Turkey-Renewable Energy Association of Turkey, which is working as a Turkish NGO to promote the utilization of renewable energy, mainly solar, wind, geothermal, and the biomass energy potential in Turkey since 2002.

Erhan Cakar is also a member of the Biyoder Association in Turkey which is working to increase the use of bioenergy as Biogas and Biomass to convert waste of electricity meanwhile decreasing pollution in our environment.