About Faraday Microgrids
Surgeon-owner. Code-driven. California-licensed. Commercial-microgrid-focused.
Faraday is a California renewable-energy development and construction firm. We engineer commercial microgrids — pre-engineered, fixed-scope tier installs for California commercial buyers, alongside grant-funded and code-driven engagements for hospitals, universities, and public agencies. Our project portfolio includes the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States, CEC-funded healthcare work, and project documentation that informed updates to the National Electrical Code. California-licensed (#1127559).
A small team. Mazzetti as engineering partner. California focus, no exceptions.
Who we are — the short version.
Faraday Microgrids is a California renewable-energy development and construction firm. We design, engineer, and build commercial microgrids — 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. We are surgeon-owner-led, California-licensed (#1127559), and partner with Mazzetti as our engineering-of-record partner on mission-critical and healthcare projects. 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.
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 Ontario Medical Center microgrid, demonstrated that an acute-care hospital could island fully on solar, storage, and combined-heat-and-power — and that the engineering documentation set from that work was novel enough to inform updates to the National Electrical Code. 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 and price.
The Faraday Team
A small focused team with engineering-partner depth.
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. Mazzetti is our engineering-of-record partner on mission-critical healthcare projects. RS Studios is our architectural partner on site-plan work. Our engineering, electrical, mechanical, and construction subcontractors are California-based, California-licensed, and selected for project fit on each engagement.
What we believe.
Five principles drive how we engage every California project.
We don’t oversell.
Faraday’s commercial offering is pre-engineered, fixed-scope, and configurable. We don’t market “no project too large or complex” because that posture quietly signals “expensive and complicated” to a commercial buyer. 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.
California, no exceptions.
California utility tariffs, California incentive programs, California air-district rules, and California Energy Commission engagement. Our work is California-focused because the regulatory and economic landscape is California-specific.
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 California 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 or equipment lease financing structures than by direct cash purchase. We lead with financing-default options because the operating-expense framing is the right answer for most buyers. For sophisticated buyers with the tax appetite and the strategic preference for ownership, cash purchase is on the menu.
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.
Mazzetti engineering partnership.
Engineering-of-record partner on healthcare and mission-critical projects. Mazzetti carries decades of hospital essential-systems engineering pedigree.
First islandable acute-care hospital microgrid.
The Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center project — the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States — is Faraday’s most-mature healthcare engagement.
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.