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The United States needs more electrical capacity
than it can build.

Electricity demand is rising after fifteen years of nearly flat consumption. Meeting it by building new supply means joining a queue that already holds close to twice the entire operating fleet, where the average wait has been measured in years. So the capacity that can be added fastest is the capacity that is already installed, sitting in facilities, and has never been measured.

WHERE DEMAND SAT FOR 15 YEARS4,0004,400 BN kWh4,1952025 RECORD4,3912027, PROJECTEDUP 196 IN TWO YEARS20052010201520202025

United States electricity consumption. The 2025 record and the 2026 and 2027 projections are from the US Energy Information Administration Short-Term Energy Outlook. Earlier years are drawn to shape and carry no figures.

15 years

of nearly flat American electricity consumption, before the current growth cycle

US Energy Information Administration
2,290 GW

of generation waiting in interconnection queues, close to twice the entire operating fleet

Berkeley Lab, Queued Up, as of the end of 2024
55 months

the average a project spent in the queue before it reached commercial operation

Berkeley Lab, for projects operating in 2024

Why New Supply Takes Years

THE OPERATING FLEET TODAYWAITING TO CONNECT2,290 GW55 months, on averageREQUEST TO CONNECTOPERATING

Berkeley Lab, Queued Up. Active capacity in United States interconnection queues as of the end of 2024, and the average time in the queue for projects that reached commercial operation that year. Berkeley Lab also reports the median duration roughly doubling, from under 2 years for projects built between 2000 and 2007 to over 4 years for those built between 2018 and 2024.

  1. 01

    EIA projects total installed capacity has to rise by 50 to 90% by 2050 across its cases. That is a construction programme, not a procurement decision.

  2. 02

    A facility does not get to wait for it. A charger installation, a heat pump retrofit or a tenant fit-out has a date, and the grid queue does not move for it.

  3. 03

    So the question in front of the person holding the project is never the national one. It is whether the service they already have can carry what they are about to add.

  4. 04

    That question has an answer today, it takes days to get, and it is the one part of this problem a facility actually controls.

Where the New Load Arrives

PANEL AEXISTING LOADSPARE POSITIONS
  • Car showroomCustomer charging
  • Fleet depotOvernight charging
  • WarehouseForklifts and docks
  • Cold storeRefrigeration
  • GroceryCases and HVAC
  • RestaurantInduction and extract
  • OfficeHeat pumps
  • HotelRooms and kitchens
  • GymEquipment and air
  • Server roomRacks and cooling
  • ManufacturingMotors and drives
  • ApartmentsHeat pumps and chargers
  • Service baysLifts and welders
  • SchoolBuses and heating
  • ClinicImaging and air
  • Transit depotBus charging

How a Service Is Sized

Over the topStill spareIt fitsThe service you already haveExisting load, calculatedEVERY LOAD, ASSUMED AT ONCEExisting load, measuredWHAT THE FACILITY ACTUALLY DREWTHE LOAD YOU WANT TO ADD, THE SAME ON BOTH SIDES
The standard route
Calculated

Article 220 adds up every load in the facility and assumes much of it at once. The answer lands above the rating, and the project is told to upgrade.

The code allows either
What we do
Measured

NEC 220.87 takes the demand the facility actually recorded, times 125%. The Department of Energy and Berkeley Lab are both working on avoiding service upgrades this way.

How much spare capacity sits in American commercial facilities is not known. Nobody has measured it. That is the whole of what we are here to change.

What Measuring Changes

WITHOUT A MEASUREMENTThe project waits on a service upgrade nobody has checked the need forWITH ONESealed in daysThe project proceeds, or the upgrade starts with evidence instead of an argumentTHE ANSWERWHERE THE OTHER ROUTE GETS TO ITS ANSWER
  1. 01

    A facility that can prove its spare capacity does not wait for capacity it already has. The project goes ahead on the service that is already in the ground.

  2. 02

    A facility that genuinely has no room finds out in days rather than after months of argument, and its upgrade starts earlier for it. That is acceleration too.

  3. 03

    Either way the answer is a sealed document an authority accepts, so the question is settled once rather than relitigated at the permit counter.

  4. 04

    Each facility that measures is one fewer waiting on new supply. That is the whole of the contribution, and it is made one service at a time.

Who You Will Be Talking To

Dharani Malladi

Chief Executive Officer

Business questions: what Wattif sells, how it is priced, and who it is built for.

Aish Prasad

Chief Operating Officer

Impact and implementation questions: how a study actually gets delivered on a live panel.

Either of us will take the call. Get in touch →

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