Faraday Microgrids Grants & Funding
California Energy Commission grants. Capital-program-funded healthcare microgrids. The first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the U.S.
Faraday’s project portfolio is anchored on grant-funded and capital-program-funded engagements. The California Energy Commission has funded our most-mature work — including the Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center microgrid, which informed updates to the National Electrical Code. Grant-funded engagement runs through a different model than our commercial pre-engineered work — start a conversation if your project sits there.
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Grant and funding programs Faraday has worked with.
The California renewable-energy and resilience grant landscape is layered — federal, state, utility-sponsored, and institutional capital-program funding all sit alongside private equity and direct-purchase capital. Faraday’s project portfolio has been most active under the programs below.
California Energy Commission (CEC).
CEC has funded Faraday’s most-mature healthcare engagements, including the Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center microgrid. Faraday has supported CEC grant applications, met grant reporting requirements, and delivered against grant-conditional engineering specifications.
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
CPUC programs of relevance include the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program and the Microgrid Incentive Program. Faraday has engaged with CPUC program-eligible projects under grant and pilot-project structures.
California Hospital Capital Improvement Program (CHPS).
California capital-program funding for hospitals is a regular path for facility-resilience and energy-infrastructure work. Faraday’s healthcare engagements have been delivered under capital-program-funded structures as well as grant-funded structures.
DOE microgrid and resilience programs.
Federal Department of Energy programs — including the Office of Electricity, EERE, and ARPA-E — fund microgrid demonstration, resilience hardening, and grid-edge research projects. Faraday has engaged with DOE-eligible project work where the federal funding aligns with California facility scope.
California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) and disadvantaged-community programs.
California’s Strategic Growth Council funds disadvantaged-community-related infrastructure work, including resilience hardening for community-serving facilities in identified DAC zones. Faraday has engaged on DAC-eligible project work where the facility profile matches program criteria.
Institutional capital programs (universities, public agencies).CHPS).
Universities, public agencies, and special districts often fund microgrid and resilience work through institutional capital programs, sometimes stacked with CEC or DOE grants. Faraday engages on these projects under the same engagement model used for hospital and CEC-funded work.
Project track record under grant and capital-program funding.
Three Faraday engagements illustrate the grant and capital-program work most-relevant to a vetting visitor.
Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center.
Facility type: Level I trauma center / acute-care hospital. Funding source: California Energy Commission. Faraday designed, engineered, and constructed the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States — full islanded operation on solar, storage, and combined-heat-and-power, including NEC 517 / NFPA 110 essential-systems integration. The engineering documentation set informed updates to the National Electrical Code.
Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center.
Facility type: Level I trauma center / acute-care hospital. Funding source: California Energy Commission. Faraday designed, engineered, and constructed the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States — full islanded operation on solar, storage, and combined-heat-and-power, including NEC 517 / NFPA 110 essential-systems integration. The engineering documentation set informed updates to the National Electrical Code.
Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center.
Facility type: Level I trauma center / acute-care hospital. Funding source: California Energy Commission. Faraday designed, engineered, and constructed the first islandable acute-care hospital microgrid in the United States — full islanded operation on solar, storage, and combined-heat-and-power, including NEC 517 / NFPA 110 essential-systems integration. The engineering documentation set informed updates to the National Electrical Code.
How Faraday engages on grant-funded work.
Grant-funded and capital-program-funded engagements run through a different model than our pre-engineered commercial work. The phases below describe how a typical grant-funded engagement moves from first contact to construction. Many of our engagements begin at the grant-application stage.
Phase 1 — Grant-eligibility and application scoping conversation.
If your project hasn’t yet applied for grant funding, we engage at the eligibility-and-scoping stage: identifying the right program, scoping the project to fit grant criteria, and supporting application development as needed. No fee at this stage.
Phase 2 — Project-framing under grant-conditional scope.
Once the grant award is in hand — or once the application moves forward under capital-program funding — we put a project-framing document together: scope alignment with grant deliverables, engineering-of-record assignment, partner-firm coordination, schedule milestones to match grant reporting requirements, and budget tracking against grant award.
Phase 3 — Engineering, design, and grant-reporting integration.
Engineering-of-record lives with Faraday or with Mazzetti depending on the project’s code complexity, AHJ preference, and partner-firm structure. Grant-reporting deliverables are integrated into the engineering deliverable set — milestone reports, interim deliverables, technical specifications, and final commissioning documentation match the grant’s reporting requirements.
Phase 4 — Construction, commissioning, and grant close-out.
Faraday constructs, commissions, and supports through grant close-out. Final reporting includes engineering documentation, commissioning records, energy-performance data per grant requirements, and acceptance documentation matching AHJ, accreditation, and grant-program standards.
Landed here by mistake? If you’re a California commercial buyer looking for pre-engineered microgrid options — fixed-scope tiers, configurable, right-sized — start with our Tiers Hub or schedule a free 30-minute screening call. Grant-funded engagement is a different conversation; commercial pre-engineered engagement is a different conversation.
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