The Development Team You Would Build If You Could.
We develop and permit BESS projects: fire protection, interconnection, equipment evaluation, FEOC compliance, and project controls, from site origination through NTP.
The consultants write reports. The lawyers redline contracts. The engineering firms produce drawings. Nobody owns the outcome.
Carina’s team executes the development scope directly. Each discipline is led by a specialist with BESS-specific experience: a licensed fire protection engineer who has reviewed UL 9540A test data for dozens of projects, an interconnection manager with a background in utility transmission planning, a former city planner who calls the AHJ directly to confirm permits and setbacks, battery engineers who co-authored the industry reference on energy storage systems.
This is how an in-house development team at a major IPP operates: the team runs the project. The difference is that Carina provides that team to developers who need it, on a project or portfolio basis, without the fixed overhead of permanent headcount. See the full engagement models and economics. See the full engagement model and economics.
When a project requires stamped engineering (30% design drawings, a stamped Hazard Mitigation Analysis, certified calculations for financing), the client engages an Engineer of Record. Carina drafts the EOR scope, coordinates deliverables within the project plan, and reviews work product for BESS-specific completeness. Carina never stamps drawings. Licensed engineering opinions and professional liability sit with the insured EOR, and the development team that runs the project sits with Carina.
We provide the execution muscle for your energy storage portfolio. By combining local land agents and consultants with national fire and BESS specialists, Carina eliminates the friction of BESS development. We complement your existing team rather than compete with it, filling the specialist gaps so you can focus on closing deals.
Development and Permitting
This is the core of the Owner’s Representative engagement. Once a site advances from diligence into development, Carina’s team executes the full scope of permitting and technical development work. The depth within each discipline scales to the project’s complexity, jurisdiction, and risk profile. Where the client’s own team already covers a discipline, Carina integrates with that coverage rather than duplicating it.
Our interconnection management scope includes queue analysis, interconnection application support, system impact study coordination, material modification assessment, IA/GIA negotiation support, and milestone alignment between permitting and interconnection schedules. Led by a specialist with a background in utility transmission planning.
OEM supply chain screening against the Prohibited Foreign Entity list, Material Assistance Cost Ratio analysis, effective control contract review, supplier certification coordination, and defense of FEOC positions in tax equity diligence and CFO briefings. Carina maintains the compliance infrastructure: OEM Master Screen, MACR calculator, certification templates, effective control checklist, and regulatory watch. Binding tax decisions rest with the client’s own tax counsel.
Carina Beacon is the project controls infrastructure that runs underneath every Owner’s Representative engagement. A project management portal tracking over 600 tasks across nine disciplines and six phases, with predecessor logic, phase gates, and milestone dependencies. A data room containing over 140 documents per project, organized to answer lender and tax equity diligence questions before they are asked. Real-time dashboards at the project and portfolio level. A PMP-certified Controller deployed into the project communication flow to extract schedule-impacting commitments from meetings, emails, and vendor updates and translate them into task updates. And a conversational interface to the live project data.
You have a pipeline of sites, capital to deploy, and the commercial relationships to secure offtake. What you do not have is a team of BESS specialists who can take a parcel from site control to NTP across every technical and regulatory discipline. Carina is that team. See how the engagement works.
Energy storage is a strategic asset with distinct drivers for different owners. Whether you are a solar developer adding storage to your pipeline, a standalone BESS developer scaling operations, or a capital partner deploying into storage for the first time, we adapt to the specific needs of your portfolio and market.
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