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August 25, 2026 9 min read

Owner Furnished Equipment Procurement Risk Starts Earlier

Owner furnished equipment procurement risk now lands before the design is finished. What a limited notice to proceed commits, and what it does not.

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August 16, 2026 11 min read

How to Write Or Equal Specification Language

Or equal specification language decides whether you get three bids or one. What a performance spec has to state, and the review process that keeps equal honest.

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August 4, 2026 6 min read

Equipment Production Slot Reservation Replaces the Order

GE Vernova signed 18 GW of slot reservations against 2 GW of orders last quarter. What the equipment production slot reservation means for utility buyers.

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July 20, 2026 4 min read

Transmission Substation Procurement: ComEd Beat the Backlog

ComEd delivered 345 kV wind-interconnection substations four months early. What its transmission substation procurement reveals about beating the backlog.

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July 14, 2026 8 min read

Utility Rate Case Procurement: What $9.2B Misses

Utilities asked for $9.2B in Q2 rate increases, up 26%. Both halves of that headline mislead. How to read rate cases as an equipment demand signal.

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July 6, 2026 6 min read

Pad-Mounted Switchgear Procurement: 2026 Buyer's Guide

Pad-mounted switchgear procurement is more competitive and lead-time constrained than buyers expect. What to spec and how to source it in 2026.

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June 26, 2026 6 min read

The Co-op Grid Hardening Playbook: Six Resilience Moves

A Missouri co-op's six-move grid hardening playbook: the equipment a hardening cooperative buys, in order, as it takes on transmission ownership.

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June 25, 2026 6 min read

Grid Modernization Roadmap: Reliability First

A grid modernization roadmap that sequences monitoring, switching, and flexible resources so utilities upgrade aging systems without losing reliability.

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June 18, 2026 5 min read

AI Ratepayer Protection Meets State Utility Law

The AI ratepayer protection pledge is voluntary. State utility regulation, not Washington, decides who gets to buy power directly. A procurement read.

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June 9, 2026 8 min read

Switchgear Refurbishment vs Replacement: Federal Signal

Federal buyers are choosing switchgear refurbishment vs replacement as lead times stretch. Here is what their June 2026 SAM.gov buys signal for your sourcing.

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May 2, 2026 6 min read

GE Vernova's Q1: $42.4B Electrification Backlog, Prolec Fully Absorbed, Two-Source Strategy Now Mandatory

GE Vernova's Q1 2026 numbers and the February Prolec consolidation reshape transformer procurement. Backlog jumped 86% YoY, data center orders alone exceeded all of 2025, and one of the two qualified North American suppliers most municipals carry just became one.

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May 2, 2026 7 min read

MISO's Anti-PJM Auction: 141 GW Cleared, Prices Halved, and the Solar Surge That Did It

MISO's 2026-27 Planning Resource Auction cleared at $116-126/MW-day annualized, roughly half last year's $212-217 range. Solar accreditation jumped 59% and 5.6 GW of new accredited capacity entered the market. The signal for distribution equipment buyers in the 15-state footprint is the opposite of PJM.

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