Kenan Sitti is an Industrial Engineer graduated from Middle East Technical University in 2004. After working as a production planning manager between 2004-2006 in an electrical equipment manufacturer, he worked in Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) until 2013. During EMRA, he worked for different energy sectors, including electricity, natural gas and petroleum markets. His expertise thesis subject was on the price formation in the wholesale electricity markets. Thereafter, he transferred to private sector in 2013. Starting his experience in the renewable energy sector, he took part in the development of 80 wind and 65 solar projects. These projects started from scratch until the license application. During this job and afterwards, he worked for feasibility studies of wind, solar, natural gas and coal fired power plants. He worked in two lignite fired power plants (Yatağan and Çatalağzı) for the coordination of executive board decisions with the operational level and made cost analysis and budget preparation studies. With the experience of both regulations and the operational level, he is continuing as a consultant serving to electricity market, both generation side and distribution sector tariff regulations.
MRC Turkey / Consultant
EMRA Performance Based Tariff Design for Gas & Electricity Sectors (on-going project, EUROPEAID funded)
Consultancy for the electricity distribution sector about tariff regulations and operational management,
Efficiency analysis for the electricity distribution companies,
Due diligence analysis for the power plants,
ACC Energy Investment Consulting Ltd. Co. / Director
Consulting about the legislative/licensing procedures for the power plant projects,
Preparation of pre-feasibility studies and investment consultancy,
Bereket Energy Thermal Power Plant Group / Executive Board Coordinator
Preparing and reporting the operational and budget statistics of the two thermal power plants (Yatağan TPP – 630 MW (lignite), Çatalağzı TPP – 314 MW (hard coal-fired))
Coordinating the operational level staff relations with the Executive Board.
Özgül Natural Resources and Energy Corp. / Planning Manager
Project planning, coordination and development of Wind, Solar and
Combined Cycle Natural Gas Power Plants, coordination of technical and administrative processes:
Wind PP : 80 projects, each of 50 MW m, Solar PP : 65 projects, each of 20 MW e, CCPP : 3 projects, each of 600 MW m ,
Preparation of RE legislation procedures and work schedules,
Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) / Energy Expert
Analysis of price formation in the Electricity Market (Balancing and Settlement Mechanism); investigation of bids and offers of generation and wholesale companies for price manipulations,
Auditing and supervising the Electricity, Natural Gas, Oil and LPG market players for the compliance of Energy Regulations, conducting investigations and imposing penalties when the companies’ operations are contrary to the energy laws.
Analysis of statistical market data (production, sales, imports, exports, etc.) and preparation of sectoral reports for the oil market,
Serving as Instructor for energy legislation training programs,