Power outages caused by animal intrusion typically involve significant man-hours and high repair costs to resolve and can seriously impact transmission and distribution station performance.
Effective Functional Design
Kinectrics has developed the PowerKage; an innovative non-electric fence designed to prevent ground access intrusions from squirrels, raccoons, and other animals to electrical equipment at substations. As a result, this non-electric fence eliminates one of the most common causes of power outages.
Kinectrics’ design has proven effective in preventing substation intrusion by animals. Kinectrics’ PowerKage can also be combined with cone technology to expand protection.
A Flexible, Low Maintenance Solution
PowerKage maintenance is minimal. PowerKage non-electric fence layouts are flexible and focused so that specific problem areas can be contained, i.e. by using one or more smaller fence enclosures within the utility’s premises.
Where costs of animal-related outages are high, the payback period for the PowerKage is short. The PowerKage non-electric fence provides a practical, humane and highly effective option to prevent power outages caused by animal intrusion.
