By Lana Ferguson
Publication Date: 2026-03-23 11:00:00
ARLINGTON — Two affordable apartment complexes in West Arlington recently turned the switches on at their “community resilience hubs,” a first-of-its-kind project in North Texas.
The constructs, which included the installation of solar panels and commercial-sized battery energy storage systems, are designed to provide backup power in high-need neighborhoods during an outage.
The Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute partnered with affordable multifamily housing developer Foundation Communities to develop the Arlington hubs. Grapevine-based Holistic Utility Solutions engineered and constructed the project.
The funding for the project largely came from a $1 million contribution from Google, which recently made a $30 million commitment to scale critical energy affordability initiatives throughout Texas —even as it spends lavishly on data center initiatives in the region.
