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What utilities paid for transformers, and how long they waited.
Every bidder's unit price and quoted delivery time from public utility bid tabulations, by exact unit (kVA, phase, mounting, secondary voltage), each row linked to the utility's own document. Free to read.
Coverage today: 3,944 bidder rows from 10 utilities in 8 states, bids opened 2016 to 2026. Beta: coverage is growing and thin where a table says so.
Benchmark units
| Unit (median bid per unit) | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 kVA single-phase pole | too few bids | too few bids | $2,656 | $2,508 | $2,105 | $1,597 |
| 50 kVA single-phase pad | too few bids | $1,928 | too few bids | $7,706 | $3,884 | $3,593 |
| 150 kVA three-phase pad | too few bids | $8,520 | $24,131 | $23,796 | $14,699 | $13,600 |
| 300 kVA three-phase pad | $9,300 | $11,782 | $28,524 | $32,815 | $18,360 | $18,183 |
| 500 kVA three-phase pad | too few bids | $15,676 | $37,592 | $38,431 | $21,803 | $24,067 |
| 1,000 kVA three-phase pad | too few bids | too few bids | $67,708 | too few bids | $36,976 | too few bids |
Quoted lead time
The delivery time each bidder quoted on the bid tab, in weeks (ranges use the midpoint; months are 4.33 weeks; "stock" is 0). It comes from the bids themselves, not from a manufacturer guide.
Bid prices against the producer price index
At the peak (2023) utilities were paying 3.4 times their own 2019 price for the same unit; in 2026 it is 1.8 times. Each point is the median across 53 matched units from 3 utilities.
Bid index: for each utility and unit, the median bid in the year divided by that utility's own 2018-2020 mean, then the median of those ratios. PPI: BLS series WPU11740999 annual mean re-based to 2019 = 100; years with fewer than 6 published months are left out.
Prices are the unit prices each utility printed for the bidder, as bid. Where a tab prints only a total, the unit price is that total divided by the quantity and labelled. Loss-evaluated (ownership) cost is never shown as a price. Units above 10 MVA are kept apart. A median needs 5 or more bids from 2 or more utilities; below that the page says so instead of showing a number. Every row links to the utility's own document. Not a quote, not an estimate.
All transformer units By state By utility Who is bidding
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- Median and p25–p75 range
- Observation table and distribution chart
- Source document on every row
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