Large feeder and service entrance
XHHW-2 and THHN in 1/0 through 750 kcmil, copper and aluminum, single and multi-conductor. The highest-value routine surplus on any commercial job.
Austin · Travis County
The Austin buying desk for surplus cable
Greater Austin is a semiconductor, data center and university construction market with a municipal utility and three cooperatives around it. The cable that comes out of that work is what we buy.
Buying desk · Austin buying hub
Start with the city and the cable
Six details are enough to start: what the cable is, how much there is, where it is and what condition it is in. Photos can follow by text or email.
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The market
Load growth, then leftover reels
Austin's electrical build-out is not one project. It is a fab at Taylor, a vehicle plant in southeast Travis County, hyperscale and colocation halls along SH-130 and SH-71, hospital towers, university buildings and a residential ring that keeps extending past Leander, Kyle and Bastrop.
Every one of those jobs is specified in cable: service entrance and large feeder, bus duct and switchgear cable, medium voltage distribution, tray and control cable, grounding conductor. They are bought in reel quantities, and they finish with surplus.
The surplus arrives in predictable shapes. A contractor over-orders ten percent. A tenant improvement changes the floor plate after the feeder is cut. A data hall is commissioned with whips left in crates. A demolition contractor pulls three decades of mixed cable out of a warehouse being converted to offices.
What moves here
All 44 categories
The cable types this market produces
Medium voltage distribution
15 kV and 25 kV cable from campus loops, padmount ties and switchgear replacements, including concentric neutral and tape shield constructions.
Data center power and grounding
Paralleled copper feeders, busway whips, rack power cable and bare copper grounding from white-space builds and refreshes.
Bus duct and busway
Feeder and plug-in busway, sections, elbows and end closers, valued on amperage and copper content per foot.
Fab and cleanroom cable
Plenum tray, tool hook-up cable and shielded control from semiconductor and lab spaces, where removal records matter.
Demolition and renovation surplus
Mixed teardown loads from office conversions, plant closures and retail demolitions, sorted and quoted by recovery.
Geography
Service area index
Every place we buy, by county
Thirty pages with local building stock, utility territory and access notes.
- 01Downtown AustinRiser, service entrance and bus duct cable
- 02East AustinTeardown building wire and MC
- 03South CongressService entrance, NM-B and appliance whips
- 04The DomainTenant-improvement MC and busway
- 05North AustinTray, control and cleanroom cable
- 06South AustinFeeder, service and site lighting cable
- 07West Lake Hills and WestlakeSER, SEU and residential rewire cable
- 08Round RockFeeder, tray and warehouse overstock
- 09Cedar ParkControl, instrumentation and VFD cable
- 10PflugervilleMedium voltage feeder and bus duct
- 11GeorgetownURD, MV distribution and PV wire
- 12LeanderURD, USE-2 and SER cable
- 13KyleSubdivision URD and warehouse overstock
- 14BudaFeeder, tray and site lighting cable
- 15San MarcosInstitutional feeder and retail service cable
- 16TaylorFab MV feeder, bus duct and cleanroom cable
- 17HuttoConstruction surplus, MV and tray cable
- 18ManorWarehouse overstock and cooperative URD
- 19LakewayPump cable, dock power and SER
- 20Bee CaveRetail re-fit MC and Cat6
- 21Dripping SpringsLong USE-2 runs and pump cable
- 22BastropCampus construction surplus and rebuild salvage
- 23LockhartLight industrial and mixed-metal lots
- 24ElginDrive, control and heavy-duty flexible cable
- 25Liberty HillSubdivision URD and service cable
- 26JarrellWarehouse feeder and subdivision URD
- 27FlorenceHeavy equipment and portable power cable
- 28Marble FallsPump cable and MV distribution
- 29WimberleyFlood rebuild service and pump cable
- 30SmithvilleMaintenance-bay cable and small commercial
Questions
Austin sellers ask
What part of Austin does the desk cover?
All of it, plus the surrounding counties. Downtown towers, East Austin warehouses, the Domain, the Parmer Lane tech corridor and the industrial edges of southeast Travis County are all routine pickups.
Do you buy from facilities engineers at fabs and data centers?
Yes. Tool moves, chase reconfigurations, white-space refreshes and decommissioned distribution all produce cable that is worth reviewing. Cleanroom and plenum cable needs a removal record, which we ask for.
Which utilities operate here?
Austin Energy inside the city, Bluebonnet and Pedernales electric cooperatives across the surrounding counties, Georgetown's municipal system, and LCRA transmission. Each has its own surplus process.
Can you pick up from a construction site?
Yes, once the cable is removed, de-energised and staged where a truck can reach it. We will ask about dock access, forklift availability and site hours before scheduling.
Buying desk · Austin
Send the reel list
Six details are enough to start: what the cable is, how much there is, where it is and what condition it is in. Photos can follow by text or email.
Prefer to talk 954-740-1983