G2 Energy Insights
Dr. Gürcan Gülen is an economist with 25 years of international experience in oil, natural gas, and electric power value chains. He focuses on laws, regulations, market designs and institutions that govern the energy industry to conduct economic analysis to identify value creation opportunities and value leakage risks. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College, and B.A. in Economics from Bosphorus University in Istanbul. He is an USAEE Senior Fellow. His career has been defined by working in interdisciplinary teams in commercially relevant research and international technical assistance funded by private and public sources.
He established G2 Energy Insights (G2EIS) to focus on advisory services and capacity building instruction. G2EIS helps clients answer their market, policy, regulatory and technology questions across dynamic oil, natural gas, and electric power value chains; and develop internal capacity by training their essential staff.
Dr. S. Can (John) Gülen has been an internationally recognized expert in cutting edge gas/steam turbine power plant technology with more than 25 years of experience. In his most recent position, Dr. Gülen has been active in supporting Bechtel for new technology assessment (e.g., supercritical CO2, concentrated solar power (CSP), carbon capture and energy storage), steam/gas turbine technical assessment for power plant and other turbomachinery projects (performance, operability, and risk analysis).
Prior to Bechtel, Dr. Gülen worked in General Electric (2000-2012) in various roles and contributed to the successful design, operation, analysis and testing of landmark power system projects including the steam-cooled H-System (Baglan Bay 109H in 2003) and IGCC 207FB (Duke Edwardsport in 2006). Before joining GE, Dr. Gülen worked in Thermoflow, Inc. (1996-2000) as developer of world-class power plant simulation software products. In ESPC, Inc. in 1994-96, Dr. Gülen worked on the data analysis of the 110 MWe Compressed-Air Energy Storage (CAES) plant in McIntosh, AL.
Dr. Gülen has been sought after for his knowledge and experience by outside organizations. He was invited by the National Academy of Engineering (USA) to participate on drafting a report on gas turbine technology (2018). He recently participated as an invited panelist in the review of US DOE’s STEP Project ($112 million), a 10 MW sCO2 pilot plant (in San Antonio, TX). Dr. Gülen is frequently invited to review archival papers submitted for publication to top journals, e.g., ASME J. Eng. for GTs & Power.