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Inside FMI's First 'Energy & Power Overview'
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- FMI Built-In Podcast
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- 1938
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Summary
Roughly $1 trillion of investment is headed into U.S. energy and power over the next five years. Whether the industry can build it is the harder question: transformer lead times now run three to four years, permitting fights drag on with local jurisdictions and everyone is bidding for the same small pool of skilled labor. Backlogs have never been bigger, and this conversation keeps coming back to whether these companies can deliver the work they have already won. In this episode of FMI's "Built In" podcast, Scott Winstead, president of FMI Consulting, is joined by four colleagues from the firm's consulting and investment banking arms: Blake Angelo and Evan Fairmont, partners who co-lead the Energy & Power practice, and Russell Clarke and Andrew Henderson, managing directors with FMI Capital Advisors. Angelo and Fairmont's work spans more than $6 billion in energy infrastructure projects, and all four helped author FMI's inaugural "Energy & Power Overview," the first time the firm has broken this market into its subsegments. What we cover: Where the $1 trillion goes: half into transmission and distribution, with $300 billion in distribution alone. Spending rising from about $158 billion to $255 billion a year, a compound annual growth rate near 10% (twice the pace of the past four decades). Five-year forward peak demand up sevenfold since 2022, from 24 gigawatts to 166. Data centers tripling their share of U.S. electrical demand, from about 3% to 9%, and the one-third of new projects planning to bring their own power behind the meter, three-quarters of it natural gas. The three constraints — procurement, permitting and people — and how even basic materials went from order-as-needed to 16-week lead times. Why the old plan-engineer-procure-build sequence is breaki…