Todd Shirley has over thirty two years of electric power experience covering a broad range of disciplines, including hands on power plant O&M experience, design engineering, project development and asset management. His professional experience includes various assignments at a number of independent power facilities with a focus in plant operations and commercial management, asset management and project finance. US power plant experience include operations in CA, FL, ID, OH, MS, NV, PA and WV. Technical experience supporting coal, waste coal and biomass, pet coke, natural gas and solar facilities utilizing gas turbines, steam turbines, pulverized coal boilers, circulating fluid bed boilers, stoker boilers. and steam chillers. Technical skills include experience with Operations and Optimization Initiatives, Environmental, Health and Safety, Commercial Management with Budget Modeling and Project Finance experience with Tax Exempt Bonds, Taxable Bonds and Term Loans.
At Olympus, Mr. Shirley is responsible for managing overall Asset Management for multiple facilities which currently includes Walleye and Burney. Prior to joining Olympus Power, he served as Projects General Manager with Power Plant Management Services and an Asset Manager at Cogentrix Energy. Prior to that his experience includes:
From 1990 until 2002, Mr. Shirley served in various roles including Plant Manager of the Orlando Cogen facility with Air Products and Chemicals Inc and later El Paso Energy. He was assigned a number of O&M roles and responsibilities including acquisition transition during the sale of the Orlando Cogen facility from Air Products to El Paso Energy. From 2003 to 2005 Mr. Shirley accepted a role as O&M Manager for the Red Hills Power Stations with Tractabel. During this assignment Mr. Shirley lead the Red Hills Operations team and assisted with the commercial optimization during a post start-up period. From 2005 to 2007 Mr. Shirley returned to Orlando Cogen as Plant Manager for the Northern Star Generation Services. During this time he lead the planning and execution of a Combustion Turbine, Steam Turbine and Generator Major Outages. During 2007 Mr. Shirley transitioned to an Asset Management role with Cogentrix Energy and remained with a portfolio of plants which later transitioned into the role of Projects General Manager with Power Plant Management Services.
Mr. Shirley graduated from Penn State University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.