Santé Group

Who places the purchase order decides what your equipment costs. Buy the major equipment direct from the OEM. The 5 to 7% contractor margin stays with you. In Texas, up to 8.25% in sales tax can too. We install, commission and test. Your only role is the purchase order.

160 weeks. That's the current US queue for large power transformers and high-voltage switchgear. Wait for final drawings before ordering, and a 2028 energization date has already left the station. That's not an argument to rush design. It's an argument to separate procurement from it. We lock Tier 1 long-lead equipment at Day Zero, so the grid connection stays off the critical path. Ask us when we'd place your order. The answer is a date, not a phase.

In an energy-only market there are no capacity payments. The plant earns when it dispatches, not a day before. So a COD slip doesn't show up on the schedule. It shows up in year one revenue, and in a summer window you don't get back. That's not an argument to build faster. It's an argument to schedule around the grid's calendar: study milestones, telemetry readiness, energization gates. Schedule certainty is revenue certainty.

There's a line in every EPC bid worth a second look: the contingency. 10 to 15% is standard, and it reads like protection. It isn't. It's your equity return, parked in someone else's price. A guaranteed maximum price, with grid and supply chain risk held by the builder, takes it out of the model entirely. The board sees a final number, not a starting point.

Most fixed-price solar bids look complete until the exclusions page. That's where the substation goes. And the 138 kV tie-line. And the grid delay risk. Moved quietly to your side of the table. The price didn't get sharper. The scope got smaller. We price it the other way: one contract, one guaranteed maximum price, grid scope inside it. If your bid comes with a carve-out list, twenty minutes with us will tell you what it's really worth.

Some workforce villages are better owned than rented. We design, build and later remove them, and you keep the right to change operator.