The 12,000 ft is probably over private property and so the utility won't want to run the line. On the other hand, 90 kVA may not be enough for the POCO's primary rate tariff. But that doesn't mean a privately owned overhead line can't do the job. 2.27 miles is too far even for 600V. I'd go 4160V with overhead lines. If the POCO won't give you primary, then buy 2 transformers instead of one.
Some PoCo's can be hired to run private lines, maybe not in this case but it might be worth checking out if overhead is the plan.
Here utilities run line extensions on private property all the time. In fact the vast majority of distribution lines are on private property with easements. What often turns out to be the problem with a POCO line is, they want road access to all their equipment so they likely won't go in a straight line through a field or what not, even if it's a lot shorter.
Easements not required either as long as it only supplies the property it is located on. There is often some kind of automatic easement for lines serving an individual property that don't need to be added to property deeds in any way, just any line that feeds through the property is all that needs noted on deeds.
Generally they can't do that even with low voltage if it supplies anything other than the property it is on.
This was over a driveway owned by another property owner. Done quite often here, and still is being done.
There is/was a lot of that around here as well. Generally is left as is until someone either complains or a service upgrade is made to what is supplied by it. Completely new services - they are going around property lines until they only cross the property being served with a drop/lateral, same if primary electric is running to transformer not at the property line - the line to said transformer does not serve other customers, without easements.
My understanding is that is pretty much the way it is done here too. They will feed low voltage onto your property without an easement but if you need higher voltage customer wiring has to start at your property line or there has to be an easement for it because they need to maintain the lines.
That is where an easement is typically needed most any place. Not too often is there an isolated property with no access road to get to it. Even in some isolated cases you may need some sort of easement just to have the access road to get to the property since you are crossing other private property to get to it.
What a lot of people dont realize (at least for here in central NY) is that for most town and county roads the private property comes right up to the edge of the traveled track of the road. There is no public place for utilites to be run so in those places every pole is there because there is an easement that covers it. Lots of routing is haphazard I think both because there were probably times they couldnt get an easement so they had to zig ag around it, but also they used to prefer shortest distance even if it meant running through fields and forests.
I've been told that my property line is basically the center of the roadway (both roads since I am located right at an intersection of two roads) on two sides. But there is 33' either side of center that I really can't do much of anything with except maintain lawn, county and any utilities that are on that part have right to access that part.
Yes indeed some are that way here too. I have a survey map on one of my parcels and it gives bearings and distances from the centerline of the road. I never quite understood why that is.
I would presume mostly because when surveying was done they only staked "section lines" that are 1 mile apart. The roads, outside of terrain features forcing them to follow other routes, typically follow the "section lines"
You want to use the local reference points, not the great technology that we have now.
Or you live in a seismically-active area where -everything- shifts (e.g. San Francisco), and not all together.
Well I have seen surveying done and they do find the local reference point, but then use the great technology we have now to measure distances from that reference.