Projects
Substation Decommissioning
Substations are the highest-value and least forgiving work we do. The assets are worth real money, and every step has a grounding and clearance requirement attached to it.
MV specialists- Offer
- Same business day
- Payment
- Before load-out
- Removal
- Our crews, our rigging
- Insurance
- COI on request
- Coverage
- All 50 states
- Desk
- 954-740-1983
Plate 01
What we buy out of a substation
Power transformers, station-class and distribution, oil-filled or dry. Metal-clad and metal-enclosed medium-voltage switchgear with vacuum or oil breakers. Reclosers, regulators, capacitor banks, CTs and PTs, protective relays and control panels.
Also the physical plant: steel structures, bus, disconnect switches, insulators, ground grid copper and the conductor.
Plate 02
Clearance, grounding and utility coordination
Nothing begins without a documented clearance from the asset owner or the utility, verified isolation, and protective grounds applied and confirmed. On tie-in points that remain live, our work stays outside the approach boundaries defined by the owner's electrical safety program.
Where a utility interconnection is involved we coordinate directly with their operations group on the switching order and the windows.
Plate 03
Transformer oil is the pivot point
Oil-filled units drive both the value and the liability. Oil is sampled for PCB content before anything moves. Units are drained or moved wet depending on size, road weight limits and the receiving facility.
Sampling results, manifests and disposition records go to the client's environmental file. This is not optional paperwork — it is the reason a legitimate buyer costs slightly more and protects you considerably more.
Plate 04
Why documentation raises the number so much here
A power transformer with recent oil analysis, a Doble test and a clean maintenance history sells to a utility. The identical transformer with no records sells to a scrap yard. Same steel, very different check.
Before you decide to skip testing on a substation asset, ask what the test costs against what the documentation is worth on the offer. On medium-voltage equipment the test almost always wins.
Questions
Frequently asked
Do you buy equipment that is still energized?
We buy it, but we do not touch it energized. Your electrician or the utility de-energizes and locks out, your representative verifies it, and then our crews begin.
Do you handle transformers with oil?
Yes, including PCB-suspect units. Oil is sampled and handled to the applicable federal and state rules, and you receive documentation for your records.
Are you insured?
Yes. General liability and workers' compensation, with certificates naming your entity and your general contractor sent before mobilization if your site requires it.
How do you decide what something is worth?
Ratings and configuration first, then how sellable the specific nameplate is, then condition and documentation, then the real cost of getting it out of your building. The last item is the one sellers consistently underestimate.
How fast can you be on site?
A written offer comes back the same business day. Crews typically mobilize within one to two weeks, and faster on a shutdown or a demo schedule that has already been set.
What do you do with the equipment?
Reusable gear is tested, refurbished where needed, and resold into the used-equipment market — often to plants waiting many months on new switchgear. What cannot be reused is separated into copper, aluminum, steel and electronics streams.
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
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