Gaffar AVŞAR

About

I am a design engineer and project coordinator leading a team designing solar PV projects. I have been in renewable energy area for 12 years, started even before my graduation from Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Middle East Technical University (METU) As a project designer, I submitted many projects to Turkish Electrical Distribution Company scales from 5kW residental rooftops to 400MW industrial solar farms. I am also acquainted with different design tools like Autocad, Digsilent, Etap, PVSOL, PVSyst. I have experince with system design, project calculations, protection, high voltage, grounding and photovoltaics. I am also consulting some clients by doing PVSOL simulations and short circuit calculations and relay coordination analysis.

Experience

• Project Manager at Europower Solar
  Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

• Detra Solar (2 yrs 4 mos)
  • Senior Design Engineer
    Jul 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Project Design Engineer
    May 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Project Development Manager at Girişim Elektrik A.Ş.
  Apr 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Senior Project Designer at ALDO ENERJİ SAN. TİC. A.Ş.
  Aug 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  - Renewable Energy Systems - System Designs & Reports - Site Control and Technical Support - Project Submissions - Site Visits - Commissionings

• Project Design Coordinator at Sayhan Engineering Consultancy Construction
  Apr 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  - Renewable Energy Systems - System Designs & Reports - Site Control and Technical Support - Project Submissions - Site Visits - Commissionings