The health of wood utility poles is central to energy resiliency. Residents of Hawaii know this more than many and the Kaua’i Island Cooperative were recommended THOR Poletest™ as a wildfire mitigator. Read the article they published in their magazine about how it helped them “…pole testing is more accurate, which leads to cost savings”

Tagging of timber utility poles has for generations identified a pole, its inspection history, condition, treatment, and ultimately the risks associated with it.  Tags have long served as an important communication tool for both health and safety and asset management in the field but a perfect storm for networks and asset owners is driving wholesale changes to the role of tags.

For over a decade Thor Poletest™ has provided networks with PHI™ (Pole Health Index™) - the gold standard in objective and accurate pole condition data and made possible by a simple 60-second non-destructive hammer test at the base of the pole.

This month as Thor Poletest™ Ltd updated the market that it’s condition data achieved an impressive 93.8% accuracy, confronting statistics from a network report have surfaced.

Christchurch engineering-tech business Thor Poletest Ltd today announced a strategic training deal with major UK Utilities training organization CTTS.

Washington State based Burke Electric www.burkeelectric.com are well known for their expertise in heavy industrial electrical construction and their commitment to safety and sustainability.  They are set now to expand their inspection services to large scale timber utility pole inspections after adopting ‘state of the art’ Thor Poletest™ technology.

Pictures paint a thousand words as they say and with this pole failure in Australia on Sunday Nov 14th 2021, the plain of failure runs precisely through the inspection holes.  This pole had a predicted serviceable life of a further 50 years and was being inspected by the distribution network every 5 years!

Powerco, New Zealand’s largest electricity distributor in terms of network length (28,000km) and with 336000 connections is well on track in their digital transformation of asset inspections after selecting Thor Poletest™ inspection technology.

VESI (Victorian Electricity Supply Industry) is well underway with joint NDT trials for it’s 5 representative electricity distributor companies - CitiPower, Powercor, AusNet Services, Jemena and United Energy.