Our full rating of any single market, evidence, cost band and connection wait included, is free forever. The Analyst Desk, $600 a month, adds the compiled tables across every market, the month-by-month history, shortlist alerts, and the quarterly book.
PowerGridIQ records grid-connection reality week by week and never back-fills it, so the archive is worth more every quarter. New subscribers pay more as it grows; existing subscriptions are never repriced. The record you receive on day one includes the full series back to June 2026.
| When you join | Archive depth | Desk rate, new subscribers |
|---|---|---|
| Now, 2026 · founding | under 1 year | $600/mo |
| From Jan 2027 | 1 year and up | $720/mo |
| From Jan 2028 | 2 years and up | $900/mo |
Indicative schedule. Existing subscriptions are never repriced; an annual plan locks your rate for the year. The recorded archive since June 2026 is included at every step and is never back-filled.
Secure checkout by Stripe. Cancel any time. The line is simple: our full read of any single market, numbers included, is always free; the compiled cross-market comparison and its history are the Desk.
These are machine-access plans by request volume. The Analyst Desk already includes full API access; pick these only if you need the API without the human desk. Full docs at the API page.
The free site answers "what is our rating of this one market, right now." The Desk answers the questions a siting or strategy professional is actually paid to resolve: how do all 84 markets compare on recurring cost and time-to-connect, which way are they moving, and what changed on my shortlist this week. It is the compiled asset plus the dimension of time, the part a competent analyst would otherwise spend days assembling by hand and could never keep current.
Yes, and it always will be. Our opinion of any single market, with its evidence, methodology, and that market's own cost band and connection wait on its rating page, is free to read and to cite. We charge for the compiled cross-market comparison and its history, not for the opinion.
The Analyst Desk is for people who research or decide where load should go: it bundles the compiled tables, alerts, the book, and full API access. The Developer and Pro plans are machine-access only, priced by request volume, for wiring the rating into your own software or agent.
Watch any market from its rating page for free email alerts on rating changes. Desk seats add shortlist alerts across your candidate markets and on queue, cost, and auction moves, not just rating actions.
The Connection Friction Feed and the Interconnection Ledger, delivered with the full per-market detail, an SLA, and licensing. Founding design partners get founding pricing from $25,000 a year. Read the brief or get in touch.