CARB DG Certification: A Milestone for the Industry to Celebrate

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In 2022, Enchanted Rock’s generators became the first of their kind to secure the coveted California Air Resources Board Distributed Generation (CARB DG) certification. The CARB DG certification has some of the strictest emission requirements in the world, making this certification a significant milestone not just for Enchanted Rock, but also for businesses and government facilities seeking cleaner backup power solutions.

Data Centers as Good Grid Citizens: Microgrids Welcome Facilities

The demand for data centers continues to rise rapidly, fueled by the increased appetite for digital interconnection. Artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and the internet of things all contribute to the growing need for new facilities to meet the need for increased computing capacity.

Is Your Microgrid Working? Backup Power Doing More Than Lighting

Although we’re excited about the increasing investment in electrical infrastructure — including the recent passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — grid outages are still of increasing concern across the United States. This issue is costly to ratepayers and will only continue to worsen as demand rises for electricity, the grid gets older and frailer, weather gets more extreme, and cybersecurity threats increase.

How Enchanted Rock’s Network Operations Center Ensures Rock-Solid

Between extreme weather events, cyber-attacks, and aging electrical infrastructure, grid outages have never been more frequent and varied. As a result, it’s become necessary for critical facilities to hedge against disruption with backup power solutions, especially as outages are expensive, often life-threatening, and always unpredictable.

Natural Gas Microgrids Help Texas Communities in Winter Storms

Two years after Winter Storm Uri crippled Texas’ electrical grid at a cost of more than 200 lives and $100 billion in damages, hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in Texas once again found themselves without power in the middle of February 2023’s frigid temperatures. Though extremely costly and disruptive, these recent outages reignited conversations about Texas’ emergency preparedness and response protocols and brought back into the spotlight the importance of resiliency-as-a-service backup power solutions.