78% of Contractors Are Using AI on the Jobsite. The Ones Who Aren’t Are Bidding Blind.
An electrical contractor in Chicago walked into the Electrical Contractors’ Association’s “AI in Electrical Construction” seminar on April 2. It was sold out. Full room. Waitlist. The day-long workshop had electricians building custom ChatGPT tools for their businesses, setting up AI project assistants for specs and RFIs, and connecting automation platforms to handle admin, reporting, […]
The 2026 NEC Just Created $38 Billion in Work. AI Decides Which Electricians Get It.
The 2026 National Electrical Code dropped in September 2025. States are adopting it now. And it didn’t just move some articles around — it created billions of dollars in mandatory electrical work that didn’t exist 12 months ago. Expanded GFCI requirements. A brand new Class C device category for HVAC equipment. Restructured EV charging rules. […]
86 GW of Solar and Storage Is Coming This Year. AI Decides Which Electrician Wires It.
The U.S. is about to install more new electrical capacity in a single year than it has in over two decades. And almost all of it needs an electrician to wire it. According to the Energy Information Administration’s February 2026 Electric Power Monthly, 86 gigawatts of new utility-scale generating capacity is slated to come online […]
Big Tech Is Paying Electricians $250K. Here’s Why That’s Your Opportunity.
Microsoft’s president just identified it as their number one problem. Google published a policy report warning about it. Fortune reported some trade workers are earning past $250,000 because of it. The “it” is the electrician shortage — and the AI data center boom is making it worse by the month. The U.S. needs 300,000 new […]
EV Chargers, Panel Upgrades, and a Boom Most Electricians Will Miss
An electrical contractor in New Hampshire just landed one of the largest residential battery storage installations in the state. His company, Ion Electrical, is scaling fast. But here’s the detail that matters most: a customer found them through ChatGPT. Not Google Ads. Not a referral. Not a yard sign. They asked an AI assistant who […]