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As we kick off the new year, we want to build off the momentum from 2025 and continue to grow, collaborate, and create meaningful, long-term partnerships.

Investing in What Matters

We’re putting resources where they count. We are always striving for progress and self-improvement. In 2026, we’re investing in increased plant efficiency by enhancing production workflows through additional employee training and new production equipment. These improvements will help streamline processes, reduce turnaround times, and ensure our teams can work more efficiently without sacrificing quality. At the same time, we will continue refining our utility products to better align with evolving utility standards, making each project more seamless concept to completion.

Powering Texas Growth

Texas infrastructure isn’t just expanding—it’s exploding. Major developments across Texas include major data center projects such as OpenAI’s Stargate campus in Abilene, the Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus near Amarillo, and The Tract Caldwell County Park located between San Antonio and Austin. With so many large-scale projects developing close to home, our goal is to provide dependable solutions that support this expanding infrastructure and, in turn, power everyday life.

The state’s appeal goes beyond infrastructure. Corporate headquarters are migrating here, too. Among them is RelaDyne, the nation’s largest industrial lubricant distributor, which is relocating its headquarters from Cincinnati, Ohio to Houston, Texas. Another is Ainos, Inc., a dual-platform AI and biotech company specializing in smell tech and immune therapeutics, which is also moving its headquarters from San Diego, California to Houston. These relocations reinforce Texas’ position as a national hub for innovation, industry, and long-term economic growth.

With its available land, business-friendly environment, relative affordability, and continued infrastructure investment, Texas is creating opportunities for companies, communities, and workers alike. As the economy grows and new jobs are created, EPI remains focused on supporting these developments by delivering reliable products and solutions that help power progress.

Expanding Our Footprint

In 2025 alone, we established and maintained 12 new utility partnerships, some including Colorado Springs Utilities, Boerne Public Utilities, San Marcos Utilities, Clayton Public Utilities (North Carolina), and Kerrville Public Utilities Board, to name a few. We value these relationships because direct collaboration with utilities allows us to better understand specifications, streamline approvals, reduce delays, and keep projects moving efficiently from design to delivery.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area represents our next frontier. While we’ve already supported projects in the DFW area, we see significant opportunity for continued growth as the region becomes an increasingly attractive destination for corporate headquarters and large-scale developments. We’re proud to already be approved and working with utilities such as Oncor, Xcel Energy, and Entergy, and we look forward to expanding that list throughout 2026.

Our Commitment

Looking ahead, our outlook for 2026 is clear and optimistic. At EPI, we’re not just planning to grow, we’re committed to exceeding our expectations and yours, raising industry standards, and reinforcing our role as a trusted partner across every project we support. Together, we’ll keep powering life, one project at a time.