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Abstract

Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. The company designs, manufactures, installs, and services wind turbines across the globe, and with more than 122 GW of wind turbines in 82 countries, Vestas has installed more wind power than anyone else.

With more than 40 years in the wind industry, Vestas has more experience than anyone else in making wind work. Together with their customers, Vestas has installed more than 122 GW of wind power capacity. This unmatched track record is the backbone of Vestas’ expertise and unrivalled experience powering continuous product improvement and performance optimization.

Vestas turbines have been installed in 82 countries around the world, operating on every kind of site, from high altitude to extreme weather conditions.

The company offers a range of products across three turbine platforms. The EnVentus™, 4 MW and 2 MW platforms provides an extensive portfolio of turbines which are each suited to specific conditions and requirements of its customers’ wind projects.

Through its industry-leading smart data capabilities and unparalleled more than 108 GW of wind turbines under service, the company uses data to interpret, forecast, and exploit wind resources and deliver best-in-class wind power solutions, helping to remove over a hundred million tons of CO2 every year from the atmosphere. Together with their customers, Vestas’ more than 25,000 employees are bringing the world sustainable energy solutions to power a bright future.

Vestas counts on the largest fleet of wind turbines under service in the world, with more than 48,000 wind turbines under service and around 10,000 dedicated service colleagues across 69 countries working committedly to maintain and support the biggest wind turbine fleet in the world.

Vestas entered the Turkish Wind Market in 1998, being amongst the pioneers in the industry during the first foundations of clean and sustainable energy in the country. Since then, the company have installed almost 2 GW of wind capacity and have extended its footprint in the last 12 years to establish 4 service and maintenance centers located in Istanbul, Sivas, Hatay and Bandırma. The Operation Center in Bandirma was inaugurated in 2018 and acts as a service, training and logistics hub for the technicians working in Turkey and in other neighboring countries.

Just in 2020, Vestas acquired the entire stake in its offshore wind business which it has been jointly running since 2014, crossed the 100 GW milestone in Service, launched an ambitious sustainability strategy or optimized and expanded its product portfolio, among many other milestones.

Vestas contributes to achievement of Turkey’s renewable energy goals by establishing innovative, efficient and competitive wind farms, along with a focus of production of main components in Turkey to create domestic added value. Today, the blades, steel towers, generators and tower connecting elements of our wind turbines can be produced by our local suppliers in Turkey. Vestas is continuously providing know-how, supervisory and educational support to its suppliers in Turkey for the domestic production. We are proud of the success of our local wind turbine component manufacturers, the export capability and the additional job opportunities created in Turkey by this way.

Biography

He was born in 1973 in Trabzon. After completing his high school at Trabzon Antolian High School, he graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at 9 Eylül Üniversity Faculty of Engineering.

He stepped in the wind business with the installation of Ares Wind Farm in 1998.

He worked on the installation of more than 100 meteorological stations and also data analysis.

Between 2003-2008 he worked in Tetra Pak as the maintenance team leader.

He joined Vestas in 2008 with the establishment of Turkey office as operations manager.

He currently works for as a Service Director within Vestas Turkey since 2014.

He is married and has two children.