Electricity Today T&D Magazine

Every day across North America, animals enter electrical substations in search of warmth, food, shelter, or simply out of curiosity. What often begins as routine wildlife behaviour can escalate quickly into serious grid reliability issues. In many service territories, wildlife intrusion is now the leading cause of unplanned outages, surpassing storms, vegetation contact, and equipment failure. According to data cited by the American Public Power Association, animal-related incidents account for more outages than any...