Overhead Temp. power

[warriorelectrician]

I need to put in an overhead temporary about 300 feet away from the nearest transformer. it is for two job trailers. My problem is the power is on the other side of a street. The permanent power is going to be underground, and none of the utilities have been installed yet. My question is do I have to set power poles to get the power across the street, or is there an easier way of doing this. I called the power company and if they install the power it has to have an engineer and will cost thousands of dollars, and if I set power poles this is going to be one expensive temporary. Any suggestions

 

[bphgravity]

It appears you only have the two options of overhead or undeground due to the street barrier that will likely need to be used for construction traffic and fire apparatus access. Unless you can get them to move the trailers to the transformer side, it looks like you are stuck...

 

[mdshunk]

Sometimes we have to lease a CAT generator and a large diesel tank for difficult temp power situations. It is sometimes more cost effective then what we'd get into getting temp power from the utility. The only drawback is that someone has to physically start the genset each morning, which can sometimes be a source of contention.