Harden more miles, sooner.
Insulate your highest-risk circuits in place, in days per mile, with no planned outage.
Another option on the hardening menu.
Undergrounding and covered conductor are proven but costly and slow. Witching Hour complements these methods by tackling the miles that would otherwise wait: where budget, terrain, pole condition or permitting stand in the way.
Undergrounding
Removes the most risk, but it is the slowest and most expensive mile: trenching, permits across properties and a planned outage to cut over.
Covered conductor
Proven and widely used, but it means new conductor, a planned outage for the changeover, and new poles and crossarms where the heavier wire needs them.
Witching Hour
Insulates the existing conductor in place, in days per mile and without a planned outage. It needs no new poles or permits.
Buy down risk now.
The same budget buys down more risk sooner, which buys time for the larger hardening projects in your wildfire mitigation plan.
What a pilot on your system looks like.
Select circuits
Choose the circuits to harden first.
Install
Energized work, span by span, with your line crew.
Review
Close-out report with per-span records and photos, and a plan for the next phase.
Scale up
Commercial deployment priced per wire-mile and delivered as a service.
Line-crawling robots
Ride the energized conductor span by span, building the insulation system as they go.
Insulation system
Durable, weatherproof insulation built on the existing conductor.
Field van
The van brings the robots and insulation to the circuit. The crew works span by span and keeps daily installation records.
Line crew and bucket truck
A line crew mounts the robots at the pole and recovers them at the next, under your work rules, while the line stays energized.
