About West Electrical Buyers

What we do

We purchase industrial electrical equipment directly — switchgear, unit substations, transformers, standby generators, bus substations, panelboards and distribution boards, motor control centers, circuit breakers, transfer switches, capacitors, capacitor banks and power cable — and we perform the de-energized removal, rigging and load-out with our own crews.

Our customers are plant engineers, facility managers, decommissioning consultants, general contractors, electrical contractors, utilities and municipalities. What they have in common is a room full of equipment that has to leave on a schedule.

Why we do the removal

Buyers who do not remove have to guess at removal cost, so they discount for uncertainty. Buyers who subcontract removal have their scope drift the moment the sub finds something unexpected.

Because our own crews do the work, we price the labor honestly and the scope in the written offer is the scope that gets performed.

How we treat safety

We work on de-energized, locked-out, verified equipment. Every time, on every job, with no exceptions for schedule pressure. The owner's electrician or the utility isolates and the owner's representative verifies before our crews touch anything.

General liability and workers' compensation certificates go out before mobilization whenever a site requires them.

What happens to your equipment

Reusable gear is tested and reconditioned where needed, then resold to plants, contractors and utilities who would otherwise wait many months on new equipment. That reuse is what funds an offer above scrap.

What cannot be reused is separated into copper, aluminum, steel and electronic streams, and transformer oil is handled under the applicable federal and state rules with documentation to your environmental file.