About Faraday Microgrids
Surgeon-owner. Code-driven. California-licensed. Commercial-microgrid-focused.
Faraday is a California renewable-energy development and construction firm. We engineer, construct, and operate commercial microgrids for California commercial and industrial facilities, alongside grant-funded and code-driven engagements for hospitals, universities, and public agencies.
About Us
The Quick Synopsis
Faraday Microgrids is a California renewable-energy development and construction firm. We design, engineer, and build commercial microgrids with pre-engineered Resilience, Endurance, Independence, and Strategic tier installs for California commercial facilities, alongside grant-funded and code-driven engagements for hospitals, universities, and public agencies. Our project portfolio is anchored on the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States, the Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center project, funded by the California Energy Commission. The engineering documentation set from that project informed updates to the National Electrical Code, allowing the use of renewable energy-based microgrids as a replacement to diesel generators for code-required backup power.
Why Faraday Exists
Faraday was founded around a working surgeon’s first-hand encounter with healthcare-facility energy infrastructure during the early 2010s California PSPS era. The founding observation: hospitals and other mission-critical California facilities were running on backup architectures designed for a more stable grid than the one they actually had. The firm’s first major project, the Kaiser Permanente Richmond Medical Center microgrid, demonstrated that an acute-care hospital could utilize solar and battery storage to support emergency electrical loads. From that anchor, Faraday has grown into a focused California renewable-energy firm: healthcare and institutional engagements continue under a project-specific engagement model, alongside a pre-engineered commercial offering that brings the same engineering discipline to California commercial buyers at a fixed-scope tier.
The Faraday Leadership Team
David Bliss, MD FACS, FAAP, RMO, CEO
Project Executive; Company Owner
Mark Handy
Chief Operating Officer
Ryan Bliss
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Shine
Superintendent
Beliza Sotomayer
Project Engineer
Steve Gabbitas
Assistant Project Manager
Behind the principals: a network of engineering, architectural, and construction partners. Our engineering, electrical, mechanical, and construction subcontractors are California-based, California-licensed, and selected for project fit on each engagement.
What we believe.
We don’t oversell
Faraday’s commercial offering is pre-engineered, fixed-scope, and configurable. Our thorough investigation phase ensures that we sell the right-sized system for your facility, no more, no less.
We engineer to code, not around it.
Microgrid engineering on California essential-facility, hospital, and institutional projects means working inside NEC Article 517, NFPA 110, IBC, and AHJ-specific requirements, not negotiating around them. Code discipline is what makes the engineering defensible.
Mission-critical engineering informs commercial work
The same engineering discipline that delivered the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States informs how we engineer for a commercial cold-storage warehouse or food-processing plant. Different scope, same engineering posture.
Operating expense beats capex on a microgrid project.
Most California commercial buyers are better served by PPA (power purchase agreement) or equipment lease financing structures than by direct cash purchase. We lead with these financing options because the operating-expense replacement is the right answer for most buyers.
Credibility at a glance
California-licensed (#1127559).
Faraday holds California Contractors State License Board license #1127559, with appropriate classification for renewable-energy development and electrical construction work.
First islandable acute-care hospital microgrid.
The Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center project is the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States.
CEC-grant track record
Multiple California Energy Commission-funded microgrid awards across healthcare and institutional engagements.
NEC code-change contribution
Project documentation from Faraday’s healthcare engagements informed updates to the National Electrical Code. (Specific NEC Article confirmation pending Mark engineering validation at Copy v1.1.)
Find out if a Faraday Microgrid is a fit for your site.
A free 30-minute screening call. If your facility is a fit, the next step is a 30-day, fixed-fee Feasibility Study.