Protecting and Insulating Your Assets From Animal-Induced Outages

Network Reliability and Preventable Outages

Possums, birds, rats, and even snakes are all capable of causing power outages. Animals climb around substations; birds perch on transformers; they are seeking a safe, warm place to shelter and nest. Even small birds and rodents can cause problems by attracting larger predators.

Wildlife interacting with electrical systems can have multiple outcomes from electrocution and electrical faults, to wildfires. These occur when wildlife causes a phase to phase or phase to ground fault with their body.

Reducing the Risk with Material Science

TE has developed a complete Wildlife and Asset Protection portfolio, made from non-tracking material, which aims to reduce the risk of ignition and minimise flame propagation. Our formula is the result of
60+ years of dedication to research, development, and material science.

Easy to install and manufactured to provide long-lasting protection for 40+ years, this material formulation ensures tracking resistance, thermal endurance, heat resistance and is optimised to reduce UV aging for high performance protection of your assets throughout their service lifetime. 

Insulating and isolating components help mitigating active threats and reduce the risk of outage and associated risk of fire related to wildlife and vegetation clashing with your substation or overhead lines.
Such strategic investment provides a return by protecting assets and communities
from costly and potentially catastrophic wildlife interference.

We invite you to contact our Wildlife and Asset Protection experts to discuss how we can support you with reliable insulation solutions – customisable to your application.