We break in first, so the thieves can't.
Copper Sentinel runs a night-time physical red team against your solar or battery site, films it, times the response and puts a dollar figure on what would have been lost. Then we close the gaps with a layered program at a price you can see line by line, and hand your lenders a monthly evidence pack.
Built for asset managers, EPC project directors and risk managers in Nevada, Arizona and the California desert.
The copper is the cheap part of the loss.
Thieves can cut cable at a remote site in minutes. The bill that follows is equipment damage, repairs, expedited parts, the deductible and weeks of lost generation or a slipped commercial operation date.
Test it. Fix it. Prove it every month.
Three things, sold the way a penetration test is sold rather than as a guard contract.
Physical red-team assessment
A night-time breach attempt under signed rules of engagement, filmed and timed. The report reads like a pentest: findings, severity, a 0–100 risk score and a dollarized expected annual loss. For EPCs, a non-adversarial walk-down instead.
$7.5k / $14k / $25k · walk-down $3.5k
fully credited if you deploy within 60 days
Layered protection, priced per zone
Thermal towers or poles, cable-tamper sensing, verified dispatch, forensic marking. Hardware and monitoring are passed through at cost plus 12% and shown to you. Our margin is a separate, visible management fee.
≈ $4.4k per zone per month (model)
4-zone construction default ≈ $17.4k/mo
Monthly loss-control attestation
A hash-chained evidence log and a monthly PDF for lenders, tax-equity investors and asset managers: layer uptime, events, verified incidents, response times. We do not promise insurance premium relief.
included in the management fee
see a sample in the SOC demo
From night test to monthly evidence in four steps
Assess
Draw the site in the Site Assessor, map patrol and sheriff response, then attempt the breach. Every report states response time as a limit, not a promise.
Plan by zone
Laydown yards, spool staging, MV and substation work areas first, where losses concentrate. Coverage gaps are drawn on the map, not hidden.
Deploy through partners
One tower OEM and one UL-listed central station install and watch. We own no hardware and roll no trucks.
Verify, dispatch, prove
Bought AI triage filters wind, wildlife and debris. Operators verify on video before anyone is dispatched. Every event lands in the evidence log.
Candidate suppliers only; no supply agreements exist. More on what we buy versus build.
What does one theft cost your site?
Set your own numbers. The defaults describe an illustrative 150 MW desert PV site at a 28% capacity factor and $45/MWh. Nothing here is a claim about your site.
| Lost generation | $0 |
| Cable replacement and labor | $0 |
| Deductible and expediting | $0 |
| Total per event | $0 |
Operating subscription in the model: $3,500 per site per month on a 36-month term (projection). Lost generation = MW offline × capacity factor × 24 h × days × $/MWh. A cut on a medium-voltage collection circuit can take far more than one block offline.
A report written like a red team wrote it.
Not a brochure about threats. Findings with an approach, a dwell window, an impact in dollars and a fix, and the footage that proves it. The sample on the right is illustrative and generated by the prototype's engine for the sample Nevada site.
Generate one for the sample siteUnobserved approach via unlit wash, NE fence line
- Approach
- On foot from the county road, 700 m along a dry wash with no line of sight from the gate or the access road.
- Dwell
- 9-minute window between fence contact and the first possible operator view; nearest deputy mapped at 41 minutes.
- Target
- Exposed copper home-runs at combiner row CB-07; estimated 1,800 ft reachable in the window.
- Impact
- One 5 MW block offline about 30 days: roughly $45k of energy plus cable, labor and deductible.
- Fix
- Thermal tower at NE corner with talk-down, vibration sensing on the NE run, forensic marking on the home-runs.
You see what the hardware costs us.
Partner towers and monitoring are passed through at cost plus 12%. Our margin is the management fee. All prices below are model assumptions, not quotes.
Red team for a 50–200 MW site ($7.5k / $25k tiers). $0 net if you deploy within 60 days. EPC walk-down $3.5k, also creditable.
$3,158 hardware and monitoring at cost + 12%, plus $1,200 management. 4-zone default, about 10 months, $2,500 mobilization.
36-month term: leased thermal poles, monitoring, patrol and incident allowance, monthly attestation. Marking $5k + $1.5k/yr.
Straight answers
If a question isn't here, the business plan probably answers it, including the risks.
Do you have customers?
No. Copper Sentinel is a concept-stage venture. There are no customers, partners, pilots or revenue. The prototype runs on synthetic data, and every financial figure on this site is a projection.
Why pay for an assessment when AMAROK and trailer vendors survey for free?
Because ours is adversarial: we actually try to get in at night, film it and time the response, and the fee is fully credited against a program signed within 60 days. For a buyer who deploys, the net cost matches a free survey.
Is a red team on our site legal and safe?
Only under signed rules of engagement from everyone with site control (owner, EPC, landholder or BLM), with law enforcement notified. A no-touch rule applies to energized equipment: "access" means demonstrated reach, photographed and timed. Testers are W-2 staff or a licensed PI firm, never 1099 individuals. Licensing (for example Nevada's NRS 648) is being confirmed with counsel before any engagement.
Will this lower our insurance premium?
We don't claim it will. The attestation is designed for lenders, tax-equity investors and asset managers as covenant and reporting evidence. We'll make no premium claims unless a named carrier puts it in writing.
What if the nearest deputy is an hour away?
Then we say so in the report. Response time is mapped before we quote and stated as a limit. Where response exceeds 30 minutes, the program leans on deterrence: talk-down audio, lights, marking and tamper alarms.
Who answers the phone at 2 a.m.?
A UL-listed central station handles tier-1 intake and verification under a written escalation tree. In the plan, an Account & SOC Operations Manager is hired at the fourth active site, and every site gets a layer-uptime status page.
Do you build your own AI?
No. Event triage is bought from an Immix-integrated filter at the central station. We build only the evidence log, the attestation generator and the Site Assessor.
See the product run before it exists.
Draw your perimeter and get a risk score, attack paths and a costed control plan, then watch the SOC console triage a night of synthetic events and generate the attestation PDF.