HedgeHog Electric & Solar

Three Electricians in Hurricane

HedgeHog Electric was founded on February 7, 2008, in Hurricane — the small town between St. George and Zion that, at the time, was still mostly orchards, alfalfa, and a few state-park-bound RVs working their way up Highway 9. The company describes itself as having been started by three electricians, and Utah business filings surface the Barlow family — Carling Barlow and Charles Barlow — among the principals. Hurricane in 2008 was not yet the boom suburb it would become; it was the place where the people who worked on St. George’s buildings actually lived. HedgeHog opened in that economy and grew with it.

Eighteen years later, the company runs four Utah offices — Hurricane, St. George, Cedar City, and Kanab — with additional reach into Mesquite, Nevada for the Arizona Strip and Lindon for Wasatch Front overflow. The Hurricane office on West 240 North is still the headquarters. The growth tracks the same arc as the region: an electrical shop that scaled from servicing local farmhouses and small commercial buildings into wiring the master-planned communities that swallowed the orchards.

Electrical First, Solar Second

The service mix is the broadest of any locally headquartered electrical contractor in the 435: full residential and commercial electrical, panel and breaker upgrades, EV charger installs, generator installs, and — through the Solar division — grid-tied photovoltaic, battery storage, and ongoing solar service and repair. The order matters. HedgeHog is an electrical contractor first and a solar contractor second, which means the solar work is delivered through licensed in-house electricians rather than a separate sales-only solar entity. In a Southern Utah solar market dominated by out-of-state lead-generation brands and one-truck installers who subcontract everything, that ordering is unusual and useful — when something on a HedgeHog solar install needs servicing in year five, the same shop that wired it is still around to fix it.

HedgeHog in the 435

HedgeHog is the kind of business a local register exists to make findable. Locally founded, family-named ownership, four Utah offices, in-house licensed crews, and a service map that actually covers Cedar City and Kanab instead of just the I-15 corridor. The St. George Chamber of Commerce lists the firm as a member. In a category where most of the brand spend is national and most of the trucks are leased, HedgeHog is a Hurricane company with a Hurricane address.