Mobile Substations

Resiliency in motion. Power when you need it most.

Southern States’ mobile solutions provide utilities with rapid, reliable, and flexible power restoration when it matters most.

From emergency response to planned outages and new construction, our mobile substations and application-specific trailers deliver rugged, cost-effective designs that keep the grid resilient and customers online. Backed by over a century of innovation and built to your exact needs, Southern States powers today’s reliability while preparing for tomorrow’s challenges.

Built for Speed

When every minute of grid downtime matters, choose Southern States. As the OEM that builds nearly every critical component of a mobile substation, we deliver faster deployment, tighter quality control, greater value, and unmatched reliability.

Southern States Powers the Future — wherever it needs to go.

Why Southern States?

Because we manufacture more of the components that go into mobile solutions than anyone else, we control quality, streamline integration, and deliver unmatched value. This in-house control — coupled with Tier 1 transformer partnerships — ensures fast delivery, superior reliability, and a better price point for you.

With over a century of experience, we build mobile solutions that are rugged, flexible, and cost-effective. Our product line includes trailer- and skid-mounted designs, ranging from full substations to application-specific trailers (disconnect switches, breakers, regulators, statcoms, reclosers, cap banks, and more). Each unit is engineered to your needs and backed by the quality of Southern States, while delivering the industry's fastest lead times.

Key Benefits:

  1. Fastest Lead Times: High-capacity in-house production and multiple ISO-Certified transformer partnerships accelerate delivery.
  2. Engineering Depth: Consulting Services, Custom Value Engineering, Extensive controls and transformer expertise, In-house 3D modeling and FEA structural validation, Seamless project execution and testing to maximize the customer’s buying experience.
  3. OEM-Built Components: We make more of the equipment on a mobile substation than any other provider, including our own transformer. We manufacture CSH-B & CSH2-B Circuit Switchers, CapSwitcher®, Protection and Relay Control Panels, EasyLock™ racking systems, SmoothFlow™ turntables, Disconnect Switches, LLS-SF6 Load Line & Loop Splitting attachments, motor operators, Cap Bank Stacks, Power Quality Monitoring (Statcoms) and Mobile Power Transformers right here in North America.
  4. Brand Agnostic: We integrate with your preferred transformer and switchgear OEMs
  5. Cost-Effective: As the manufacturer of most of the equipment on the mobile, allows us, better quality control, better cost control, better project management efficiency, and shorter lead times.
  6. Field Proven: Many top mobile providers have sourced our components for decades
  7. 24/7 Support: Backed by Southern States' 24/7 after-sales support and long-life engineering

Product Family

Mobile Substation Trailers

  • Emergency power restoration after equipment failure and planned outages during substation upgrades, capacity for load growth, disaster recovery

Mobile Cap Bank Trailers

  • Stabilize voltage, improve power factor, reduce energy losses, provide temporary VAR support.

Mobile Unitized Skids

  • Reliable support for upgrades, long-term use, and grid protection — delivered in a compact design that speeds setup, cuts effort, and saves costs.

Mobile Breaker Trailers

  • Designed for flexibility and rapid deployment, these units handle HV and LV applications with ratings up to 230 kV — perfect for emergency backup, temporary switching, or replacing breakers during maintenance.

Mobile Circuit Switcher Trailers

  • Best-in-class transformer protection and switching up to 40 kA primary fault interruption.

Mobile Load Break Switch Trailers

  • Best-in-class LLS-SF6 Load Line & Loop Splitting, temporary system configuration, by passing or isolating sections during construction or emergency work.

Mobile Cable Reel Trailers

  • Available in multiple configurations and enclosures, our cable reel trailers protect and secure cables in storage with lockable options, while enabling safe, motorized rapid deployment in the field.

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866-394-3661
30 Georgia Ave.
Hampton, GA 30228

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