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Dato’ Ir. Ts. Dr. Zahari Hj. Dollah

Principal Fellow

Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)

Zahari Dollah’s power-sector career connects distribution engineering with the development of smarter electricity networks. His UNITEN fellowship follows senior TNB responsibilities and work spanning reliability, microgrids and utility transformation.

Source published11 Jul 2026
Dato’ Ir. Ts. Dr. Zahari Hj. Dollah
Source image: Kepimpinan Malaysia
01 / BACKGROUND

Career & background

He previously headed TNB distribution asset management, chaired TNB Energy Services and served as a director of TNB Research and Malaysia Transformer Manufacturing. He holds a doctorate concerning sustainable microgrids and professional engineering and technologist credentials. The source describes more than 33 years of experience.

Source-reported experience33+ years.
02 / CONTRIBUTIONS

Areas of contribution

The cited record attributes contributions to Putrajaya’s reported SAIDI below one minute per customer annually and a Smart Grid Index improvement from 50% in 2019 to 80.2% in 2024, associated with a global top-eleven position. It also records work on the Smart Utility Masterplan 2030 and recognition from Green Finance Asia, Enlit Asia, Solar Quarter Malaysia, Asian Power and CEPSI, among others.

03 / PERSPECTIVE

Leadership focus

His interests include analytics, AI, automation and self-healing networks in the energy transition. Academic and industry advisory work provides another route for sharing this utility-engineering experience.

04 / SOURCES & CONTEXT

The basis of this profile.

This profile brings together factual career information from publicly available sources. References and publication dates are provided below.

Kepimpinan Malaysia11 Jul 2026 · Read the original publication
Source notes

Network indicators represent organisational results to which the source attributes a contribution. Other appointments include UNITEN, UTM, MIMOS Services and ENLIT Asia; a UMS industrial fellowship is described as earlier service.

Professional details reflect the cited publication dates and may change. Third-party materials remain subject to their owners’ rights.