Carlos Gonzalez is the Coal Combustion Team Leader at AES Puerto Rico. He has been with AES Puerto Rico since our first plant’s inauguration in 2001 and over the past 20 years has been a part of teams including Operations, Environment, and Safety.

2020 was a particularly memorable year. Despite the challenges that nature brought with a series of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Carlos says “Our team has shown its resilient attitude, putting together new and efficient ways of handling the many constraints and challenges these situations added to the operations. We have put in place protocols for physical distancing, access control measures, temperature checks, safety measures to avoid non-essential contact with vessel personnel on arrival and document control maintaining the non-stop operation of the barge loading and the safety of the regular employees, contractor and vessel workers.”     

Carlos believes that this achievement would not have been possible without the commitment to excellence of the team lead by dedicated leadership putting safety and the health of the employees and contractors as our first priority.