Global grid intelligence for large loads

Where should your next 500 MW go?

PowerGridIQ rates 84 power markets for large electricity loads: what power costs all-in, how long connection takes, how reliable the grid is, and which way each market is moving, with cited evidence and a public track record, refreshed weekly. Any one market's full rating is free. The comparison across all of them, its history, and alerts are the Analyst Desk.

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Every rating action and major grid development across the value chain, newest first. This is the page to check each Monday.

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Where should I build?
Every market rated for a large new load: cost, connection speed, reliability, and momentum.
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Markets ranked by how much new supply they need against how easily it can be built there.
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What's coming over the next years?
How much of each grid's connection queue is real, firm load, and when it will land.
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A grid-strength grade on 38 markets, updated as reliability, cost and regulation move. Built for assets you hold or underwrite.
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Every market, rated. Free to read.

All 84, colour-coded by tier, best first. Click any market for the full rating, the five pillars, the evidence, and the cost breakdown. The opinion is never behind a paywall.

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Live from the platform, our current Prime-tier markets, plus where power is cheapest and, separately, where it is cleanest right now. The two rarely coincide.

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Your Analyst Desk is active, and every compiled view is included. Jump straight in:

Any one market is free, numbers included. All of them side by side is the Desk.

Open any market above and you get its full report free, including its own recurring cost band and connection wait. What the Analyst Desk adds is the compiled picture: every market ranked on precise recurring cost and time-to-connect, the month-by-month history, and alerts when your shortlist moves. A taste, most expensive first:

🇮🇪 Ireland (Dublin)$150 /MWh
🇬🇧 Great Britain$138 /MWh
🇹🇼 Taiwan$133 /MWh
🇺🇸 Northern Virginia (PJM)$130 /MWh
🇩🇪 Germany South$••• /MWh
🇳🇱 Netherlands$••• /MWh
🇫🇷 France$••• /MWh
🇨🇦 Ontario$•• /MWh
🔒 The full ranked cost table is the Desk

Every market's own band stays free on its rating page. The Desk compiles them: the full ranking with precise midpoints, connection friction with waits in months, how each has moved, and the export.

Get the compiled tables, Analyst Desk $600/mo

Rated like an agency, in the open

Not a black box. Every call is dated, cited, and scored against its own record.

Watching a few candidate markets? We will tell you when they move.

Siting is a moving target: a queue reforms, a capacity auction clears, a tariff doubles. Set it once and let the change come to you.

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Watch one market

Watch any market from its rating page and get an email the moment its rating, outlook, or a material development changes. No account needed.

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Watch your whole shortlist

A shortlist across all your candidate markets, alerted not just on rating changes but on queue shifts, forward-cost auction prints, recurring cost moves, and new developments. The whole board, watched for you.

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Developers and agents: the full JSON API and MCP server are at the build page, with an open llms.txt and a free evaluation tier.