CommuGrid gives distribution utilities a continuous, data-driven view of transformer fleet health — scored, ranked, and ready to act on. Know which units are approaching failure before the outage call comes in at 2 a.m.
38 | Average age in years of US distribution transformers — well past optimal service life of 30–35 years, across all utility types US DOE Grid Deployment Office, 2024 |
2–4 | Year lead time for a replacement unit, up from 8 weeks before 2022. A failure today may mean no replacement until 2028 Edison Electric Institute, 2024 |
6,000+ | Electric utilities — co-ops, municipals, IOUs, and G&T associations — managing aging fleets without purpose-built predictive analytics EIA Electric Power Annual, 2024 |
68% | Of major US power outages traced to distribution equipment failure — transformers are the leading cause regardless of utility type NERC Reliability Report, 2023 |
Most utilities manage transformer failures reactively — an emergency crew dispatch, a customer outage, a NERC reliability report, and the increasingly grim reality of 2–4 year replacement lead times. A transformer that fails today may not be replaceable until 2028, regardless of whether you operate a co-op, a municipal system, or a distribution division of an IOU.
The solutions that address this — Doble Engineering, Eaton, ABB — start at $500,000 and require 18-month professional services engagements. They were built for large investor-owned utilities with 50-person technology departments. They were not built for the operations team of three managing 15,000 transformers across a distributed service territory.
CommuGrid Caldex was built for every utility that needs operational intelligence without enterprise overhead. It reads your existing SCADA and AMI data, trains a health model on your fleet's actual failure history, and gives you a scored, ranked list of every transformer in your territory — within 30 days of signing, without replacing any existing infrastructure.
Our first product is available now for co-ops, municipals, IOUs, and G&T associations. Four more products are in development and accepting waitlist applications.
Caldex continuously monitors every transformer in your territory, scoring each unit on a 0–100 health index built from thermal data, dissolved gas analysis, load history, and age. It connects to your existing SCADA, AMI, and outage management systems — no new field hardware needed to start — and delivers a live risk list within 30 days.
A live composite of thermal data, dissolved gas readings, load history, and asset age — scored continuously across your entire fleet.
No six-figure professional services engagement. No 18-month sales cycle. Start with a paid pilot — convert to annual after you evaluate the risk scores against your own historical failure data.
All tiers include a one-time implementation fee of $10,000–$15,000. Pilot programs available at 50% of implementation cost. Custom pricing for statewide associations and holding companies managing multiple utility territories.
The questions utility procurement and engineering ask before they sign. We'd rather answer them here.
We're onboarding a select group of distribution utilities as early-access customers — co-ops, municipals, and IOU distribution teams. Tell us about your fleet. We'll respond within one business day.