Faraday Industries
Microgrids for the California industries where energy is mission-critical.
Cold Storage, Food Processing, Biotech & Pharma, Manufacturing, and Healthcare & Institutional. Each vertical maps to one or two pre-engineered Faraday tiers. Most California commercial sites land at Endurance.
Not sure where you fit? The Feasibility Study returns the answer in about 30 days, for a fixed fee.
Why we organize by industry
Different facilities. Same energy problem.
California cold storage, food processing, biotech, manufacturing, and institutional facilities don’t share an operating manual. They do share an energy economics problem — demand charges, rate-schedule exposure, outage cost, and resilience requirements that the utility is no longer underwriting. The Faraday tiers are pre-engineered, fixed-scope responses to that shared problem. The vertical pages on this hub explain how each tier shows up in your industry. The Feasibility Study confirms which tier fits your specific site.
The five verticals at a glance.
Cold Storage
High demand-charge exposure. Low tolerance for spoilage during outages.
Food Processing
Continuous-process operations where downtime carries spoilage and reorder risk.
Biotech & Pharma
Mission-critical research and production environments where outage cost compounds quickly.
Manufacturing & Multi-tenant Commercial
Demand-charge-heavy facilities where uptime drives revenue.
Healthcare & Institutional
Where Faraday’s pedigree began. Grant-funded and institutional work.
Compare the five verticals side by side.
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Cash Purchase
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Capex required from host
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$0
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$0 (FMV operating lease) to ~10–20% (capital lease, varies)
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Where Faraday fits at facilities like yours.
Three anonymized scenarios drawn from the kinds of California facilities Faraday is built to serve.
Cold Storage
Central Valley refrigerated warehouse, ~250 kW peak load
Demand charges climbing under PG&E B-20. 24/7 refrigeration with multi-hour spoilage risk. A recent PSPS event triggered partial-load shed and a near-miss on temperature compliance.
Endurance configuration: solar plus battery plus automatic islanding, sized for refrigeration plus selected critical loads through 4–12 hours. Demand-charge reduction across the bill; ride-through coverage matched to actual outage exposure.
Endurance fit
Biotech & Pharma
Bay Area biotech R&D facility with vivarium, ~300 kW peak load
Live-sample integrity exposure across multiple cold-storage units. FDA-cGMP environmental-control requirements. Existing diesel backup carries air-quality permit constraints that limit run-time.
Endurance configuration with Independence escalation: solar plus battery plus automatic islanding, sized for vivarium plus cold-storage critical loads, with linear-generator or fuel-cell extension where outage tolerance pushes multi-day.
Endurance / Independence escalation
Food Processing
Coastal California food processor, ~400 kW peak load
Multi-shift production schedule with cold-chain integration. Demand charges as a major monthly bill driver. A previous outage cost a six-figure batch loss.
Endurance configuration: solar plus battery plus automatic islanding, sized to keep production-line continuity through grid events while flattening peak-demand exposure across the 24/7 schedule.
Endurance fit
Anonymized illustrative scenarios drawn from typical California facility profiles. Real commercial case studies replace these as engagements close. See Proof for the full project library.
Your industry tells us where to start. The Study tells where you land.
Your industry sets the typical pain pattern. Cold storage facilities shape up around demand charges and refrigeration uptime; biotech facilities shape up around sample integrity. The vertical pages on this hub describe what we typically see, why a particular tier typically fits, and what the economics typically look like. But “typical” is the starting word — your facility’s interval data, rate schedule, critical-load list, and outage exposure are what determine the tier the Study recommends. The vertical is the conversation’s opening line; the Study is the answer.
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.