The market layer for grid equipment

The equipment gating the grid buildout trades dark.
We publish the market.

Lead times, observed prices, and secondary-market listings from four dealer inventories (more being added) — weekly. Built for the people waiting 160 weeks for iron.

LPT lead time (index)
160+ wk tier-1 quotes run longer
Transformer PPI
+4.1% YoY
Listings tracked
358
With published price
274
MV dry recon, median ask
$18.0/kVA (n=64)

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Why this exists

Tier-1 OEMs quote 2030–31 delivery on large power transformers while new, current-year units sit in the dealer channel, price-on-application. Buildouts are slipping on power equipment — industry estimates put 30–50% of planned 2026 US datacenter openings delayed or canceled with power equipment among the named bottlenecks. There is no price index, no availability data, no benchmark — a $20B+ market allocated by relationships and phone calls. Grid Desk is the data layer: what's available, what it costs, how long everything actually takes.

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Grid Desk — the market layer for grid equipment. Independent; unaffiliated with any seller or OEM. Prices shown are dealer asking prices at crawl time; nothing here is an offer to sell. Updated 2026-08-19. Order book (beta) · Changelog · Terms · Privacy