Switchgear
topic on 2 shows · 8 statements across 5 episodes
8 statements about Switchgear, every show
Lubershain: Grid equipment and gas plant costs have doubled or tripled
“Conductor is, like, twice as expensive. So, like, basic aluminum, steel-reinforced conductor. Transformers are two-plus times more expensive. Switchgear is two times more expensive. Gas power plants are two to three times more expensive.”
Lubershane: Grid equipment costs 2-3x more and takes 3-5 years to deliver
“Anything you want to order today is probably going to take three plus years in the case of gas turbines, probably more like five years to be able to get your hands on. Anything you order today, whether it's a turbine or a transformer or just the, you know, alu…”
Kann: Lead times for gas turbines, transformers, and switchgear are 3 to 7 years
“The five to seven years is the timeline to get new gas turbines, if you're ordering them, and it's close to the timeline to get new transformers and other, and switchgear and stuff like that. Like, we're all in the, like, three to five or maybe seven year time…”
Hade: Four components comprise most microgrids deployed today
“Solar storage, switchgear, and dispatchable generation assets, and some combination of those come together to, you know, create most microgrids that are being deployed in the market today.”
Hade: Switchgear lead times surged from 20 to 60-70 weeks post-COVID
“Which is typically, like, 20 week lead times on Switchgear. That was kind of what the market was before COVID. Today, it's more like 60 to 70 weeks.”
Hade: Islandable switchgear adds a 25% to 30% capital cost premium
“It's like a 25 to 30% premium to install the switchgear you need to be able to island.”
Hade: Switchgear integration is the biggest technical pain point in microgrids
“On the technology side, I think the biggest pain point right now comes back to switchgear, right, which is integrating a new switchgear into an existing facility has always been more of an art than a science”
Highland pre-purchases electrical switchgear 18 months ahead of signed contracts
“We are buying switchgear, 18 months in advance for projects we don't even have under contract yet, because if we don't have switchgear, we're not We're not getting the infrastructure completed and we can't get up and running.”