Success Stories: TimberRock Energy Solutions

TimberRock Energy Solutions is making the promise of 100 percent “clean” electric vehicles (EVs) a reality.

The Frederick-based company engineers customizable solar-powered EV charging stations that ensure the vehicles’ environmental benefits aren’t diminished by relying on electricity generated by coal or other “dirty” sources of energy.
As the EV market grows – various studies estimate there will be one million EVs on the road by 2015 – demand for TimberRock’s innovative products is rapidly increasing. The company already has completed several groundbreaking projects:

• The first EV solar charging station with integrated energy storage at a federal government facility – the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs office in Martinsburg, West Virginia;
• The first commercially financed Smart Grid-compliant solar EV charging station at the General Motors/Allison Transmission headquarters in White Marsh, Maryland;
• Inclusion in the design of the first net-zero community in the nation – the Nexus Homes Community in Frederick, Maryland.

TimberRock is developing multiple scalable designs that can be tailored for use in various residential or commercial settings. The highly cost-efficient systems enable owners to generate energy that reduces their traditional power consumption and utility bills. The stations also store surplus energy that provides various smart-grid benefits to utilities.

“The way we generate and use energy in the next 20 years will be very different from the way we did over the past 20 years,” said TimberRock Founder and CEO Brent Hollenbeck. “There is a strong demand for a changing infrastructure and we are meeting that demand.”

Hollenbeck added that working with the Maryland Clean Energy Center has been key factor in its success and company growth.
“MCEC has been instrumental in helping us develop a network of potential business partners and customers,” he said.