Abdullah ŞAHİN (Msc)

General Manager | 650 MW Solar · Wind · Hydro · CCGT | AI-Driven O&M | 98% Availability | EPC · 12+ Countries

Türkiye

About

A power sector executive with 25+ years of hands-on leadership across the full energy value chain — from feasibility and EPC delivery to large-scale operations, asset management, and strategic investment. My career has taken me across Turkey, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, where I have led some of the most complex and high-stakes energy projects in emerging markets. Today, as General Manager, I oversee an operational portfolio of 650 MW spanning Solar, Wind, and Hydroelectric technologies — managing the full lifecycle from performance optimization to investment strategy. What defines my career is not just scale, but diversity of challenge: I have led the construction and commissioning of a 330 MW thermal power plant in Ghana, managed 225 MWe and 102 MWe diesel power facilities across West Africa, directed maintenance and operations of a 1,200 MWe CCGT plant in Turkey — one of the country's largest — and delivered a 150 MWe fast-track gas power plant in Turkmenistan as EPC turnkey. I have worked alongside USAID and World Bank-financed projects, negotiated with ministries across 10+ countries, and built O&M organizations from zero in frontier markets. My edge is the rare combination of deep technical mastery and executive-level strategic thinking. I don't just run plants — I build the systems, teams, and frameworks that make assets perform predictably and create lasting value for investors. ◆ EPC delivery & commissioning leadership — from 40 MW to 1,200 MW scale ◆ Operational excellence & RCM-based asset management across 10+ countries ◆ USAID / World Bank project development & technical documentation ◆ Ministry-level stakeholder engagement across Africa, Middle East & Central Asia ◆ Cross-functional team leadership in high-pressure, multi-jurisdictional environments I am driven by one conviction: the most valuable thing a leader can deliver is certainty — operational certainty, financial certainty, and strategic certainty — in markets where nothing is guaranteed.

Experience

  • General Manager at Fernas Energy
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Operations & Maintenance Director at Artıbir Enerji
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Consultant of Engineering and Operations & Maintenance at Freelance | Self-Employed
    Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Operations & Maintenance Manager / Project Manager at Aksa Enerji Üretim A.Ş.
    Dec 2016 - Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Operations & Maintenance Manager and Business Development Manager at Karpowership
    Jul 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos