During a recent maintenance inspection in the City of Hartford, their line crew discovered a power pole on Independence Avenue with several woodpecker holes on an important feeder circuit exiting their Dodge Substation. Because the damage compromised the integrity of the pole, the crew scheduled an immediate replacement.

Thanks to the redundancies built into our system, customers did not experience any outages during the replacement. The City of Hartford's crews are trained and equipped to work on energized powerlines up to 25,000 volts when necessary. However, in this case, they were able to switch and isolate the section of the powerline, allowing the line crew to complete the work under much safer conditions.

Their work behind the scenes, combined with their commitment to safety and proactive inspections, helps prevent outages before they occur and keeps our system running reliably.

Photo by the City of Hartford.