Hade: AI tooling will slash C&I battery transaction costs 90% in three years
Tim Hade · The commercial battery comeback · Jul 30, 2026 · at 34:38
Tim Hade forecasts significant cost deflation in commercial and industrial battery project soft costs due to AI automation of legal, financing, and permitting workflows.
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“So my best guess is, you know, over the next three years, the transaction cost bucket will go from an average of about 200 dollars a kilowatt hour to maybe 20 dollars a kilowatt hour. I think there's going to be a 90% reduction in the cost in sort of transaction costs, primarily as a result of AI and agentic tooling.”
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