PowerDraft
What 50 MW Costs in 15 US Markets
Dominion $1.5M per MW and 14 years, AEP Ohio 72.5% minimum at 50 MW.
Low-voltage switchgear (LVDO), made to order. Source: Schneider Electric Lead Times Guide, September 2026 edition, published 2 September 2026. Eleven classes tracked; class detail is Pro. Sep 2026.
50 weeks, LV switchgear, published lead time, Schneider Electric Lead Times Guide, September 2026 edition. Monthly, first business day, after the Schneider guide (about the 2nd) and the M3 release.
Open the Lead-Time MonitorLead articleProcurementDraft
Tariffs, September 2026: The Actual Schedule for Machinery and Electrical Gear
IEEPA struck down Feb 20Section 122 ran to Jul 24Section 301 forced-labor tariffs on 60 economiesSection 232 metals at 50/25/15/10 with the Annex III 15% tier to Dec 2027.
Prannay Hebbar, September 9, 2026. 18 minute read, free to the paywall.
Recent
All articlesProcurementDraft
Liquidated Damages at 0.5% a Week: Why Caps Sit at the Vendor's Margin
Cap norms by equipment class, what a week of delay costs per MW.
ProcurementDraft
How to Write an RFQ for Capital Equipment in 2026
Ocala's $1.1M PPI escalator, LDs at $250 a day capped at 5%.
PowerDraft
The 2% Funnel: 474 GW Requested, 9 GW Approved, 5.8 GW Energized in ERCOT
Oncor's 298 GW of requests, Batch Zero.
ProcurementDraft
Reading a Switchgear Quote: The Eleven Line Items That Hide the Schedule
Base price, copper escalator.
MachineryDraft
The $306k Machine: A Record Half-Year With Fewer Units
USMTO $3.44B in H1 2026, units down 2.6%.
Models & Data
All models50weeks
LV switchgear, published lead time, Schneider Electric Lead Times Guide, September 2026 edition
Lead-Time Monitor
Published lead times for eleven equipment classes compiled from OEM lead-time guides, Census M3 unfilled orders over shipments, ISM supplier deliveries and backlog disclosures in filings. Every cell carries its OEM and date.
3.0x
Powell Industries book-to-bill, quarter ended June 30 2026: $934M of orders on $312M of revenue
Book-to-Bill League Table
Quarterly orders, backlog and book-to-bill for every listed electrical, power and cooling OEM, from filings only, with the read-across for buyers: which classes are getting longer and which are clearing.
$9.8Mper MW
all-in datacenter build cost, Phoenix and Columbus, Turner & Townsend Data Centre Construction Cost Index 2025
Datacenter MEP Cost Table
Capex per MW by component on the Turner & Townsend and JLL baselines, air-cooled and liquid-cooled, with each line's lead time from the Lead-Time Monitor and the carrying cost of delay.
Tools
All toolsCopper and Wire Price Sheet
Latest copper price to $/ft of metal by NEC conductor size, with an escalation-clause calculator for bids.
Open the calculatorGenset TCO
Ten-year cost of a standby or prime generator set: diesel vs gas vs dual fuel, fuel, maintenance, permitting, Tier 4 aftertreatment, run hours.
Open the calculatorLarge-Load Interconnection Cost
MW and market to study fees, security deposit, minimum-bill exposure and realistic energization year, from the Large-Load Cost Table.
Open the calculatorSubscribe
Every article is free to the paywall. Pro opens the rest, plus the vendor-level detail and the calculators with saved inputs. Desk and Institutional are for teams who want the alerts and the data itself.
- Free$0
- Every article to the paywall
- Headline index numbers
- Lead-Time Monitor headline
- Large-Load Cost Table
- Calculators with default inputs
- Pro$40 a month, or $400 a year
- Every article in full, with the archive
- Lead-Time Monitor, every class, monthly
- Bid-Tab Price Book bands by region
- Large-Load Cost Table history
- Calculators with saved inputs and exports
- RFQ template library
- 20% off for five or more seats
- InstitutionalQuote per firm, per year
- Model workbooks and dashboards
- Monitor history and API
- Bid-Tab rows and API
- Custom markets in the Large-Load Cost Table
- Quarterly updates for a year, onboarding call
- Analyst access and custom cuts