Electrical Emergency Response 24/7 for Houston, the Gulf Coast Region and Globally
Electrical emergency first responders for municipalities, hospitals, data centers, large industrials, plants, refineries, and utility infrastructure
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that power interruptions have been trending upward since 2014, peaking in 2024 with nearly twice as many hours of interruption as in any of the previous years. Texas alone has seen unprecedented weather-related outage events during that period, and Saber was there for its customers every time. Our team provides emergency response, inspection and damage assessment, electrical triage, and disaster mitigation. We have the resources and capabilities to rebuild and replace damaged electrical systems to get our clients running quickly — ensuring a safe, reliable return to operation.
Saber Power Emergency Response
Our electrical team serves as first responders after major catastrophes such as hurricanes, tornados, storms, explosions, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other emergencies. We can also dispatch our mobile breaker repair shops to our client’s site to dramatically shorten the time it takes to return water or fire-damaged equipment to service.
Saber Power’s emergency electrical team can also arrange temporary generation to our clients’ sites for those critical hours between an initial outage and the return of utility or primary power.
24-Hour Emergency Electrical Field Service
- Electrical emergency first response
- Electrical triage
- Electrical system damage assessment
- Inspection and testing of high voltage equipment
- Equipment repair/recondition
- Spare parts support
- Replacement equipment
- Installation commissioning and startup
- High, medium and low-voltage circuit breaker repair and replacement
- Power and distribution transformers repair and changeout
- Instrumentation and metering
- Motors and motor winding resting and repair
- Battery inspection, testing and maintenance
- Ground fault monitoring
- “Board-up” services
- Building dehydration
- Generator solutions
- Temporary HVAC
- Refueling
Capabilities
- Substations, switchgear, motor control centers
- Circuit breakers – 600 V, 5 kV, 15 kV, 38 kV
- Vacuum, oil, SF6 breakers – 15-230 kV
- Contractors/starters
- Transformers
- Large motors
- Direct replacement breakers
- Generation supply:
- Units ranging from 4 kW to 2 MW
- Daily, weekly, monthly and discounted standby rates available
- Delivery, refueling, and maintenance services available
Contractors
- Electrical suppliers
- HVAC suppliers
Flooded equipment that must be replaced
- Molded-case circuit breakers
- Fuses
- Busway (mylar wrapped)
- Solid-state components
- Overload relays
- Electronic trip units of low-voltage power breakers
- All dry-type transformers
- All dry-type control circuit transformers
- Liquid-filled transformers
Flooded equipment that may be reconditioned
- Enclosed switches
- Busway
- Panelboards
- Switchboards
- Variable frequency drives
- Manual and magnetic controllers
- Motor control centers
- Low, medium and high-voltage circuit breakers
- Protective relays, meters, current transformers, low and medium-voltage switchgear
We’ve assisted in emergency response for all types of companies and municipalities:
- Hospitals
- Data centers
- Large industrials
- Plants
- Refineries
- Utility companies
- Municipalities
Electrical Emergency Response Examples:
Hurricane Recovery Experience
Hurricane Laura 2020 – Nederland, TX
- Provided and installed 40 MW of gas turbines for storage tank/pipeline facility
- Staged and dressed eight, 5 MW gas turbine units near substation
- Installed cable tray raceway between units and 15 kV substation building
- Installed 15 kV cable terminations from turbines to 15 kV switchgear
- Interconnections for turbines
- Provided relay settings for turbines and 15 kV gear
- Developed energization plan for feeding 15 kV system with 40 MW of turbines
- Tested and commissioned all MW equipment and relays for power generation
- Provided turbine interconnection wiring
- Turned over operational system encompassing all the above in six days
Hurricane Harvey 2017 – Houston, TX
- Harvey recovery services provided to 38 of the 51 industrial plants with known wind & flood damage
- Complete rebuild of every electrical component in 6 substations(including power panels, PLCs, VFDs & MCCs) of entire plastics unit that had been 6’ to 7’ under water
- Engineering assistance to tie new equipment with 1970’s era equipment
- Provided 28+ generators and established two camps
- Avg. of 100+ techs for 4 months including night shift for several weeks
- Assessed, cleaned, tested, &repaired electrical equipment that experienced over 7’ of flooding
- Provided engineering assistance to integrate new equipment with 1970s vintage equipment
- Averaged 100+ technicians for four months including night shifts for several weeks
Here’s a video of the Houston Mayor thanking Saber Power for our efforts to quickly restore Houston City Hall after Hurricane Harvey flooding.
Industries
Electric utilities, municipalities, and cooperatives; data centers; battery energy storage systems (BESS); renewable generation, solar, and wind; conventional generation; industrial and petrochemical; midstream oil and gas; commercial; manufacturing; mining; institutional; health care; government (state, federal and military)