H2 World – Module 8 – Muren Guler – Venn Energy – Developing Utility Scale Bankable Solar And Hydrogen Projects

H2 World – Module 8 – Muren Guler – Venn Energy – Developing Utility Scale Bankable Solar And Hydrogen Projects

About this Module

The H2 World’s module 8 presents Venn Energy’s Managing Partner, Muren Guler, who will be delivering valuable insights into developing utility scale hydrogen projects and how they can be made bankable.

Muren Guler will discuss project development concepts with supporting business models for combining hydrogen and solar technologies. Exploring such models as stand-alone (grid-connected) and Co-located (grid/non-grid connected) and how various approaches present unique opportunities for minimising LCOH (Levelised Cost Of Hydrogen) to reach 2030 and 2050 targets. Muren Guler will share with us identified challenges and hurdles of the different development concepts followed by suggestions on how to address them. Best practices and opportunities learned from Venn Energy’s rich background in the sector will also be delivered in this knowledge-packed module of the H2 World.

Muren Guler

Muren Guler is a managing partner of Venn Energy, focusing on delivering a GW scale of solar and storage pipeline across Australia. In addition to the current development pipeline, Muren is working on bankable green hydrogen solutions to convert green electrons into molecules for a wider use and accelerate the green transition.

Muren had several different roles in global renewable energy industry for the last fifteen years in different parts of the world covering project development, investment and EPC parts of the value chain in the Solar and Wind Energy.

He was Managing Director of Global Energy which provided consultancy on investment, project development and EPC to multinational renewable energy companies including the Tier-1 global solar panel manufacturers, developers and IPPs in various regulated and unregulated markets in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.

He worked for SkyPower as Regional Manager, a Toronto based global solar company with 35 offices around the world which is majority owned by an infrastructure fund with $20 billion assets under management including an investment portfolio of CALPERS. Muren involved in many complex development and investment activities in relation to FIT, PPA programs and bilateral government negotiations in Europe, Turkey, Africa and Asia.

Muren led a team which developed 100 MW+ wind and solar projects in Eastern Europe for REI based in London. He is one of the founders of Bulgarian Wind Energy Association and was a member of Supervisory Board.

Muren oversaw the realization of the largest wind park in Bulgaria and South-eastern Europe which is SNWF, 156 MW, 270m Euro Investment financed by EBRD and IFC in 2008/9, which let him gain extensive hands-on experience.

Muren holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey and Master of Science Degree in Energy Technologies and Management from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Venn Energy – Power For Generations

Venn Energy is a developer of high quality renewable energy assets in major growth markets around the world.

The Venn team combines exceptional expertise, deep market knowledge, and decades of experience to create significant long term value for our shareholders, local partners, and communities.

Venn Energy’s business model is truly differentiated, designed to take advantage of the worldwide transition of utility-scale renewable energy towards grid parity.

Venn Energy are singularly focused on developing and investing in projects with solid development fundamentals, in subsidy-free markets, with multiple potential revenue streams.

Read more about Venn Energy: https://www.vennenergy.com/

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Together we can foster a hydrogen society for Australia and a global renewable energy future.

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