Hurricane Fence, a Richmond fencing contractor founded in 1994, announced today its perimeter fencing, gate, and access-control services for solar farms and other energy infrastructure across Virginia and North Carolina. Virginia's Clean Economy Act, signed in April 2020, required the electric utilities it covers to reach 100 percent renewable electricity by 2050 at the latest and designated 16,100 megawatts of solar and onshore wind generation as in the public interest; every large generating site built toward that goal comes with a boundary to secure.
Fencing a utility-scale solar array is a different job from a commercial lot or a warehouse yard. Hurricane Fence builds fence lines around solar arrays, substations, pump stations, and wind sites, and much of that work runs across open rural acreage. For remote and unmonitored sites, the company recommends anti-climb fencing made from welded-wire panels or 1-inch mini-mesh chain-link, a tight weave with openings too small for fingers or boot toes to grip.
When the National Electrical Code, the national standard for safe electrical installation published by the National Fire Protection Association, added a dedicated article for solar power plants of 5 megawatts or more in its 2017 edition, it required that circuits and equipment be maintained and operated only by qualified personnel and that access be restricted by fencing or other adequate means. The rest of the specification depends on the site and what the fence has to stop.
On rural solar farms, crews add windscreen fabric or weave privacy slats into the chain-link fence to limit views into the array and reduce the wind moving through the fence. Where an entrance has to stop a vehicle, the company installs crash-rated fencing and barriers, systems tested to halt a vehicle of a set weight and speed. Gates, operators, and access-control hardware such as keypads and card readers go to the company's in-house gate-operator division rather than a subcontractor, and that team holds a Certified Automated Gate Systems Designer credential. Before any post goes in, buried lines have to be marked through the required utility-locate request, known in Virginia as Miss Utility, since electrical cable on an energy site can run close to the fence line.
Mike Kelly, co-owner of Hurricane Fence, said the fence is the part of an energy project that does its job when nobody is looking. "A solar site can go weeks without a single person on it, and for every one of those weeks, the fence is the security. The panels get the attention and the ribbon cutting. We build the perimeter like it's going to get tested, because out there, sooner or later, it will."
Outside platforms rate the company's safety record. Hurricane Fence holds Gold Safety Awards from both Highwire and ConstructSecure, contractor-prequalification platforms that score contractors on jobsite safety, with the ConstructSecure award in Division 32, the construction category for exterior site improvements such as fencing. Its team has completed OSHA 30-hour training, a construction safety course from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the company works under a Virginia Class A contractor license (CIC FIC & HIC #2705024990).
The company completed 3,143 projects in 2025, residential and commercial work combined. Developers and site owners can visit the company's profile for directions to the Richmond headquarters and recent customer reviews. Project teams can reach Hurricane Fence at (804) 353-6030 or through www.hurricanefenceinc.com.
About Hurricane Fence
Hurricane Fence is a residential and commercial fence contractor founded in 1994 and serving Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic for more than 30 years. The company operates offices in Richmond, Portsmouth, Northern Virginia, and Dunn, North Carolina, and installs vinyl, aluminum, wood, and chain-link fencing, as well as commercial perimeter security, crash-rated barriers, and automated gate and access-control systems. Hurricane Fence holds a Virginia Class A contractor license (CIC FIC & HIC #2705024990), carries an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, and is an American Fence Association Blue Ribbon company. More information is available at www.hurricanefenceinc.com.
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For more information about Hurricane Fence Company, contact the company here:
Hurricane Fence Inc.
Tina Estep
(804) 353-6030
testep@hurricanefence.com
1300 Dinneen Street, Richmond, VA 23220
