Fire Mitigation — G&W Electric

Accelerate Your Fire Mitigation Timeline

G&W Electric and SEL work closely with you to design fire mitigation strategies that can be rapidly implemented across your electrical infrastructure. Our flexible solutions meet your unique needs in eliminating wildfire risk to address safety concerns and satisfy regulatory mandates such as Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) requirements.

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Fire Mitigation for Distribution

System Hardening

Eliminate Sparking and Sources of Ignition

By installing new equipment, upgrading aging infrastructure or a combination of the two, we help you quickly minimize fire risk. Our strategies for system hardening center on flashover mitigation and include solutions such as transitioning overhead infrastructure to underground placement.

Enhanced System Protection

Respond to Fire Threats with Speed and Precision

We can improve your system protection against wildfires with strategies that take advantage of technological advancements including downed conductor detection, adaptive reclosing and fast fault clearing. As experts in system integration, we seamlessly integrate these solutions with existing distribution software.

Flexible Solutions for Your Fire Mitigation Needs

Our distribution system equipment can be preassembled with fire mitigation features to significantly reduce installation time and help minimize sparking from arc flash, severe weather conditions and wildlife contact. We also enable all of our reclosing devices with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), granting you access to remote monitoring and control.

Viper^&reg-ST

Viper reclosers improve SAIDI performance by effectively clearing temporary faults and include features such as solid dielectric transformers and wildlife guards tested to IEEE 1656 standards.

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CLiP^&reg

When placed inside or outside substations, CLiP^&reg can detect and clear faults in less than half a cycle, significantly reducing the potential risk they pose.

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Trident^&reg

Our padmount package with Trident^&reg bypass enables underground placement of Viper reclosers in areas where overhead equipment poses a high fire risk.

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Diamondback Switch

The Diamondback switch is an ideal replacement for air break switches with exposed energized components that can generate an arc. It uses solid dielectric insulation so there are no exposed, energized moving parts and is maintenance free.

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SEL Recloser Control

The SEL-651R advanced recloser control detects downed lines and stops power flow. It can also give a location alert to help crews zero in on the fallen conductor.

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