
Malaquias Encarnacion
Energy storage executive and Partner at Carina Energy, with 19+ years leading utility-scale BESS development (AES/Fluence, EDF, Leeward, Qcells); led the first US grid-connected lithium-ion battery system (2008).
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Sep 8, 2026
Design the Permits Before the Project | Malaquias Encarnacion on BESS Development
28:21
What problems do you solve for your customers and why do people come to you over other
28:26
people? Yeah, I would say it's the problem of not knowing what you don't know when it comes to developing bandwidth, right? So we have an approach of being comprehensive on trying to, based on previous experience, some of them not good.
28:57
And when we first started working on a project, we tried to be as comprehensive as possible.
29:03
uh we really believe that if you want to move fast you have to plan smoke right you gotta take the time to be comprehensive you know analyze everything that could go wrong at all different levels of all different layers different stakeholders different you know things that could happen and then once you have that master view of things that you know can happen you put them all in a checklist, and then you'll implement like hell, right? Just to steal one of Jack Welch's phrases.
29:38
He said, you know, in strategy, you just say a general direction, then you implement like hell.
11 MINS LATER
41:09
What does a world without battery storage even look like? Does the transition still continue?

