Houston, TX · Electrical Transformer Buyers
Houston, TX Electrical Transformer Buyers
Houston facility and construction teams call us when equipment is coming out and nobody wants to coordinate an electrician, a rigger and a hauler around one outage window. We are all three, and we pay you for the equipment on top of it instead of charging you to haul it away.
Serving Houston and metro- Location
- Houston, TX
- Desk
- Electrical Transformer Buyers
- Ratings
- 75 kVA – 50 MVA, oil-filled and dry-ty
- Offer
- Same business day
- Payment
- Before load-out
- Phone
- 954-740-1983
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Transformers buyers serving Houston
Houston sits in Texas, where Oncor, CenterPoint Energy, AEP Texas, Austin Energy, CPS Energy feed the load and I-35, I-45, I-10, I-20 and I-30 carry the freight. Sites near those corridors cost us less to service, and that shows up in your offer rather than in our margin. Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio are routine stops and Houston work routes with them.
Documentation travels with the job: a certificate of insurance naming your entity, a W-9, a signed purchase agreement itemizing each asset and its price, oil or PCB manifests where applicable, and weight tickets or a bill of lading for what leaves the Houston site.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ratings | 75 kVA – 50 MVA, oil-filled and dry-type |
| Scope | Pad-mount, dry-type, cast coil, substation |
| Nameplates | ABB, General Electric, Square D, Eaton, Cooper, Howard, Federal Pacific, Siemens, Waukesha, Kuhlman, Westinghouse, Delta Star, Pennsylvania Transformer, Hammond, Acme |
| Condition | Working, retired, water-damaged or already dismantled |
| Minimum | One section, one unit, or a whole plant lot |
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What we take out of Houston sites
Liquid-filled pad-mount and station class
Oil-filled pad-mount and pole-mount units, loop-feed and radial, unit substations with their primary switching and secondary sections, and station-class power transformers with tap changers, radiators and conservators. Oil is tested for PCB content before anything moves, and the manifests come with your paperwork.
Dry-type and cast coil
Ventilated dry-type and cast-coil units from 15 kVA through 5 MVA, including 480 V to 208 V step-downs, K-rated units specified for harmonic loads, and drive isolation transformers. Dry-types move easily, resell quickly and generally carry a strong number relative to their weight.
Texas specifics
Texas is our largest market: Gulf Coast petrochemical turnarounds, ERCOT generation retirements, oilfield electrification and Dallas and Austin construction all move medium-voltage switchgear, transformers and generators constantly.
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Nearby and related
Other Texas locations where we buy transformers:
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Houston questions
How do you handle transformer oil in Houston?
Oil is tested, drained and manifested through licensed handlers, and you receive the documentation with your paperwork. PCB-suspect units go under a separate waste profile. Nothing is left on your pad in Houston and nothing gets dumped — the handling cost is already in the offer.
When do we get paid?
Before the equipment leaves your Houston dock. Wire, company check or cashier's check, whichever your accounting group prefers. On large phased projects we pay per load as it ships rather than holding everything until the end.
What if the equipment is old or has no test records?
We still quote it. Records raise the number — a NETA test report on a breaker or a transformer is the single document that most improves what we can pay — but their absence disqualifies nothing. We price Houston equipment on what our technicians and the replacement market say it is worth.
Are you insured to work inside our Houston facility?
Yes. We carry general liability, auto, workers' compensation and umbrella coverage, and we issue a certificate naming your entity as additional insured before crews mobilize to Houston. We also complete vendor onboarding, background checks and site-specific safety orientation on request.
Can you work nights, weekends or during a shutdown in Houston?
Regularly. Most electrical removals happen outside production hours because that is when circuits can be released. Night, weekend, holiday and turnaround windows in Houston are normal scheduling for us, not a premium service.
Form 1 — Request for Offer
Get a Written Offer
Send the asset list, or just describe what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Faster: call or text 954-740-1983
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
Mon–Sat, 7am–7pm ET. We never resell your contact information.
Transformers in Houston?
One call, one written offer, one crew. Payment before the trailer leaves.