UNDERGROUND SERVICE REQUIREMENTS - Other Jurisdictions

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mtnelect

mtnelect

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This is what is required in Southern California for underground residential electrical services. You are required to provide the conduit and pull rope and the utility will provide the wiring. Is this typical in other jurisdictions ?
 

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I deal with multiple POCOs and not all are the same. Some I just put a sweep off the PVC from the meter. POCO runs flex conduit and the wires, which customer is billed for. A couple do as was mentioned, customer/contractor provides the conduit and pull string, conduit only goes to POCO pole base and stops, another we have to go up the pole with one stick and stand-off, then leave enough conduit to reach top of pole. If it's a padmount trans., we just run conduit as close as we can and they complete it to the transformer.
 
Here we're only responsible for installing a POCO-supplied meter base and the load-side wiring.

At least in residential work. I just installed these a couple of weeks ago. The POCO does the rest.

This is for a new house panel at an existing apartment building. We passed inspection last week.

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Great installation.
I posed a question about combination services a few weeks ago. Why don't I see this type on enclosure being utilized. In the Southwest that's all we use.
Someone stated that because of snow, ice, wind and rain it would not be a good idea to have circuit breaker exposed on the outside of a building on the Eastcoast.
 
We provide the wiring from the pole to the meter. Usually a stick of rigid at the pole and an educated guess at how much wire they are going to need, longer is better.
 
Dominion is what Larry Fine says, mount meter base, run wires from panel into base, do not connect to meter terminals, walk away. Dominion does all the underground work. Depending on load letter, prices vary from free to whatever. Same for overhead.

REC, Rappahannock Co-Op is put in the conduit from meter base to transformer location (before they set the transformer) with red warning tape above, and REC supplies the sweep ells. No internal tape or pull string.
 
mtnelect said:
Great installation.
I posed a question about combination services a few weeks ago. Why don't I see this type on enclosure being utilized. In the Southwest that's all we use.
Someone stated that because of snow, ice, wind and rain it would not be a good idea to have circuit breaker exposed on the outside of a building on the Eastcoast.
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That installation is pretty common here in east central Georgia. That would be for a Ga Power/ Southern Company install, most of our EMCs around here let us use a combination meter main enclosure. Either way we install the meter and leave enough conduit to get to their burial depth and a 90 to go on the bottom, they get the wire into the meter and terminate the line side.
 
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