Utility.
Medium-voltage equipment for investor-owned, municipal, cooperative, and public power utilities — substations, primary distribution networks, and the transmission tie-ins between them.
- Equipment categories
- 11
- Manufacturers
- 12
- Applicable standards
- 6
Standards.
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IEEE C37.20
Switchgear assemblies — metal-clad (C37.20.2) and metal-enclosed (C37.20.3) construction requirements for medium-voltage switchgear.
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IEEE C57.12
Distribution, power, and regulating transformers — general requirements for liquid-immersed designs, including ratings and cooling classes.
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ANSI C57
The ANSI designation of the C57 transformer apparatus family covering distribution and power transformers.
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IEC 62271
High-voltage switchgear and controlgear — the IEC standards series for switching and controlgear rated above 1 kV.
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NESC (IEEE C2)
National Electrical Safety Code — installation, operation, and maintenance rules for utility-owned supply facilities.
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IEEE 1547
Interconnection and interoperability of distributed energy resources with the electric power system.
Equipment.
Medium Voltage Transformers
Distribution and substation transformers stepping power between the utility system and downstream circuits.
View categoryMedium Voltage Switchgear
Metal-clad and metal-enclosed switchgear sectionalizing, metering, and protecting substation and feeder circuits.
View categoryMedium Voltage Cable Splices
Cold-shrink and heat-shrink joints extending and repairing underground primary cable runs.
View categoryMedium Voltage Cable Terminations
Terminations controlling electrical stress at shielded-cable end points — switchgear, transformers, and apparatus bushings.
View categoryLoadbreak & Deadbreak Elbow Connectors
Loadbreak and deadbreak elbows landing primary cable on dead-front transformers, switchgear, and junctions.
View categorySurge Arresters
Metal-oxide arresters in distribution, intermediate, and station classes, coordinated with equipment BIL.
View categoryFault Indicators
Overhead, underground, and padmount indicators flagging the faulted section of a feeder for crews.
View categoryTransmission & Distribution Products
Pole-line hardware, insulators, cutouts, reclosers, and conductor for overhead and underground lines.
View categoryJunction Cabinets
Pad-mounted and subsurface cabinets for looping, tapping, and sectionalizing underground distribution circuits.
View categoryMetering Equipment
Instrument-transformer metering — CTs and PTs scaling primary circuits for revenue billing and load monitoring.
View categoryGrounding Products
Compression and mechanical connectors, rods, and straps for substation ground grids and equipment bonding.
View categoryFAQ.
What medium-voltage equipment do utilities use?
Utilities buy across the medium-voltage stack — switchgear, distribution and substation transformers, surge arresters, cable terminations and splices, elbow connectors, fault indicators, metering, and grounding — for substations and primary distribution networks.
The eleven equipment categories on this page cover that stack. Each links to its full category page with the manufacturers Hawk carries for it.
What standards govern utility distribution equipment?
Utility medium-voltage equipment is built to IEEE and ANSI apparatus standards such as IEEE C37.20 for switchgear and IEEE/ANSI C57 for transformers, and is installed under the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC).
The NESC governs utility-owned supply facilities — distinct from the National Electrical Code, which covers premises wiring on the customer side of the service point.
Where distributed energy resources connect to the distribution system, IEEE 1547 sets the interconnection and interoperability requirements.
Which manufacturers does Hawk carry for utility work?
Hawk MV Supply carries utility-focused manufacturers across switchgear, transformers, cable accessories, and line products — the twelve listed on this page, each linked to its full catalog.
Corporate parentage for reference: Cooper Power Systems is an Eaton brand; Elastimold and Thomas & Betts are ABB brands; Raychem is a TE Connectivity brand.
Does Hawk publish pricing for utility projects?
No. Utility equipment is configured and priced per project.
Send a specification — equipment, ratings, quantities — through Contact for a quote.
Sourcing for a utility project?
Send a specification — equipment, ratings, quantities, project requirements — for a quote.
Medium-voltage equipment for electric utilities.
Electric utilities — investor-owned, municipal, cooperative, and public power — are the primary market for medium-voltage equipment. They build and maintain substations, primary distribution networks, and the transmission tie-ins between them. The equipment is built to IEEE and ANSI apparatus standards — IEEE C37.20 for switchgear, IEEE/ANSI C57 for transformers, IEEE C62.11 for surge arresters — and installed under the National Electrical Safety Code. Where distributed energy resources interconnect with the distribution system, IEEE 1547 applies.
The utility scope Hawk MV Supply sources spans the eleven categories on this page: medium-voltage switchgear and transformers, surge arresters, cable terminations, splices, and elbow connectors, fault indicators, metering equipment, junction cabinets, grounding, and transmission and distribution line products — from the twelve manufacturers listed above. Equipment is configured and priced per project: send a specification to [email protected] or through Contact for a quote.