Interconnection intelligence for large-load developers

Know the real date your load can plug in.

Amperate reads the public interconnection queue, substation headroom, and equipment lead times, then tells you where your next data center actually fits, what the upgrade costs, and when it can truly energize. Not the date that assumes the transformer shows up on time.

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A look inside

Every substation, ranked against your load.

A preview of the Site Finder. Substation, utility, and location are redacted on this public page; design partners see the live data.

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PJMERCOT 300 MW
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# Substation kV · TO Location Headroom vs request ▾ Est. $/kW Energization Lead / queue
01 230 ·
~180 of 300 MW+120 MW to fit
 $155/kW Q2 2031 xfmr 144 wk
×1 in queue
02 230 ·
~110 of 300 MW+190 MW to fit
 $170/kW Q3 2031 xfmr 128 wk
×1 in queue
03 230 ·
~95 of 300 MW+205 MW to fit
 - - existing bay
×1 in queue
04 230 ·
~60 of 300 MW+240 MW to fit
 - - existing bay

Illustrative data. Substation, utility, and location redacted for this public preview.

The problem

The queue is full of numbers that are not real.

Interconnection queues carry many times the megawatts the grid can host. Standard timelines quietly assume equipment arrives on schedule, so an energization date can slip by years once a new transformer or GSU is actually ordered. Developers are left guessing which sites have room, what the upgrade will cost, and which queue positions ahead of them are speculative and will drop out.

~144 wk
Market lead time for a new GSU, the delay most timelines ignore
Many×
Queue megawatts requested versus what a substation can host
One model
Capacity, cost, timeline, and viability from the same public backbone

What Amperate does

Find the site. Price the risk. Trust the date.

Honest timelines

Energization dates with equipment built in

Every timeline includes transformer and GSU lead times, so you see the real energization quarter, not the one that assumes equipment on schedule. Model ordering early to recover quarters at a capital risk you can price.

Capacity and cost

Where your load fits, and what the upgrade costs

Rank every substation in a market by real headroom against your requested load, with the upgrade gap, estimated interconnection cost per kilowatt, and queue depth inline. The best fit sorts first.

Queue viability

Which positions are real, and which are phantom

Score queue viability from public signals: financial security posted, site control, developer track record, and megawatts requested against what the substation can host. See the market the way the utility does.

Design partners

We are taking five design partners.

Developer-side teams who shape the roadmap and get the full platform. If you are siting large load in PJM or ERCOT and want the honest date before you commit capital, request access to the live demo.

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