A major electric utility company was conducting upgrades to a transmission line, which would require a two-day outage to complete the work. Unfortunately, this would leave many customers without power for several hours. Immediate on-site power at 13KV was needed to keep the distribution network energized to avoid outages and unhappy customers.

Equipment would need to be deployed and set up within a week, but since hunting season was underway, no access was allowed on the site until two days before the outage was set to occur.