SYNOPSIS   

Effective Operations and Maintenance (O&M) is essential to ensuring the long-term reliability, energy generation and financial performance of utility-scale solar farms. This one-day crash course provides practical insights into solar farm O&M project management, covering plant operations, preventive and corrective maintenance, electrical equipment reliability, performance monitoring, troubleshooting and operational cost optimization.

Participants will learn how to manage solar farm O&M activities, improve Performance Ratio (PR), minimize plant downtime, address equipment failures and optimize energy generation throughout the plant's operational lifecycle.

The course integrates technical, project management and commercial perspectives, supported by practical case studies from utility-scale solar farm operations in Malaysia.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Noor Iziddin Abdullah Haji Ghazali

Ir. Noor Iziddin Abdullah Bin Haji Ghazali, PMP is the CEO of UiTM Energy & Facilities under UiTM Holdings. With over two decades of experience in the energy sector, he has led initiatives spanning utility-scale solar, rooftop solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), energy efficiency, and sustainable infrastructure. A Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate (PEPC) and Project Management Professional (PMP), he has held leadership roles across consulting, infrastructure, telecommunications, data centres, healthcare, ports, and renewable energy.

He is also a Committee Member of the Project Management Technical Division of The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), and is committed to advancing Malaysia's clean energy transition through sound engineering, financial discipline, and effective project delivery.