
Houston Microgrid Company to Open California Office
Houston-based Enchanted Rock LLC is preparing to establish a foothold for itself in California. Enchanted Rock, which provides microgrids to customers in need of reliable power supply, is already in talks with a number of grocery store chains in the region that may be...

Enchanted Rock Selected for the HBJ Innovation Awards
Houston is full of pioneering companies across all industries, and 26 have been selected for the Houston Business Journal's inaugural Innovation Awards. See the list of honorees at the end of the story. To be considered, Houston-area companies must have been in...

More Opportunity for Microgrids as Texas Coal Plants Retire
ERock is prepared to provide additional support to the grid this summer, as the buffer between supply and demand narrows. ERCOT strives to keep its planning reserve margin at a minimum of 13.75 percent of peak electricity demand, however it only forecasts 9.3 percent...

Enchanted Rock Expands Senior Living Portfolio
Houston based Enchanted Rock Ltd. has added its second Houston senior living facility to its growing base of microgrids. The company has reached an agreement with Tradition Senior Living LP to build a microgrid around the new Tradition campus underway on Buffalo...

Regulators Want to Know If Georgia Power Considered a Microgrid for the Atlanta Airport
The power outage at the Atlanta airport on December 17th has many people wondering why the busiest airport in the world doesn't have reliable backup power. Regulators advocate for the use of microgrids to ensure that a power outage as crippling as this one doesn't...

GTM Broadens Their Definition of Microgrid to Include Enchanted Rock
Basic microgrids, or microgrids that have only one source of distributed energy, are now included in GTM’s microgrid definition. With this broadened definition that now includes Enchanted Rock, GTM predicts the microgrid capacity to grow from 3.2 GW to 6.5 GW by 2022....

One of ERock’s Valued Customers Sets Guinness World Record
One of Enchanted Rock's valued customers, Buc-ee’s Ltd., will be awarded the Guinness World Record for world’s longest car wash. On November 16, Buc-ee's will be recognized for its 225-foot-long car wash at its Katy location. This location sheltered first responders...

Enchanted Rock at GTM US Power & Renewables Summit
Austin, TX – Enchanted Rock's Thomas McAndrew, Participated on a panel discussing changing market fundamentals at Greentech Media's inaugural U.S. Power & Renewables Summit. The summit drew an international crowd of energy sector participants to hear from industry...

Why Solar Microgrids May Fall Short in Replacing the Caribbean’s Devastated Power Systems
After the destruction inflicted across the Caribbean by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, renewable energy advocates are calling for a rethink of the region's devastated power systems. Houston-based microgrid developer Enchanted Rock advocates rugged microgrids...

Houston-based Enchanted Rock, Ltd. to invest almost $8 million to build, install back up power at RELLIS
The Texas A&M University System has signed a deal with Houston-based Enchanted Rock, Ltd. to ensure its RELLIS Campus, located west of Bryan, will have a reliable source of backup power to support its current and forthcoming facilities. Enchanted rock will provide...