Electricity to new yard

[Adam@Rumen]

Hi

Putting a new yard in on a new site and want to get electricity to it. There is electric crossing the land 150 metres from new site (3 cable wooden poles).

Where is the best place to start with this and any tips please?

Cheers

 

[upnortheast]

If it is a new supply you need you need to contact your local Network provider Probably have an online application form. Need to chat to your sparky to work out what capacity you need.

They will want payment with order then tell you the lead time is ????? months.
When you receive the quote I suggest you sit down

 

[Adam@Rumen]

Thank you.

Is there anything that can be done to make the work cheaper?

 

[Still Farming]

Thank you.

Is there anything that can be done to make the work cheaper?

Contestable and non constestable works can reduce if you do work on your own land.
But sounds expensive if 3 poles away and you need big transformer, plus if network can support it possibly?

 

[upnortheast]

Thank you.

Is there anything that can be done to make the work cheaper?

Maybe digging in a duct yourself is about all
The contestable / none contestable thing is a red herring on a single connection scheme. Might be relevant if your scheme is for 30 houses

 

[teslacoils]

When you receive the quote I suggest you sit down

Might not be able to sit down. You want to make sure you don't watch them install it - you'll be fuming the number of folk sat about inspecting the two chaps who do all the work.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

just been through this process for 3 sites.

on one of them, I asked for a 150 KVA 3ph connection.

connection point was 750m away, price came back in at about 50k.

i this asked for a connection for the same amount but 25m away thinking it would be much less. In the interim i worked up to a planning application to move the site to the closer location thinking I’d save big time and was proud of my cunning idea.

2nd quote came back, 60k!!!

site is staying where it is!

 

[upnortheast]

Their pricing systems seem totaly random & illogical
Only thing you can be sure of there will be lots of 0000 involved

 

[Still Farming]

Also leave for a while and get re quote sometimes cheaper?
Depends on copper prices etc?

 

[br jones]

Different men from western power,two different ways and costs

 

[Adam@Rumen]

Thanks everyone.

 

[upnortheast]

Thanks everyone.

Be interested to know the result ( If you don`t mind putting it on here )

 

[Adam@Rumen]

Be interested to know the result ( If you don`t mind putting it on here )

Yes will keep this thread updated.

(Will also update from my cell if I get caught trying to blackmail them for the wayleave across the land)

 

[Hesston4860s]

Well mine for a similar distance, 45kva 3 phase including transformer upgrade and 10 foot of road crossing is 12.5k +vat. 5k of that is for the road crossing 2.5k of the 5k is for closing the road !.

unfortunately I still can’t afford it so I’m running off a PTO 3 phase genny which isn’t ideal but will have to do !.

 

[upnortheast]

Well mine for a similar distance, 45kva 3 phase including transformer upgrade and 10 foot of road crossing is 12.5k +vat. 5k of that is for the road crossing 2.5k of the 5k is for closing the road !.

unfortunately I still can’t afford it so I’m running off a PTO 3 phase genny which isn’t ideal but will have to do !.

That sounds cheap compared with others I`ve heard of.
Our 90 kva was £27k 5 years ago.
Line comes past the end of the yard.
2 new offset poles to sit the transformer on.
25 metres cable (through our duct ) to a meter hut
Some jointing to connect in an existing supply

 

[Pilatus]

It seems a terrible situation that the power providers have such a monoply that they have to dig the trench,supply the cable,back fill etc etc why is this?
Why can’t power providers say , you can do the job , as long we specify spec of cable required and you dig trench and backfill to our specs, and you pay us just to connect cable to new transformer??

 

[Still Farming]

It seems a terrible situation that the power providers have such a monoply that they have to dig the trench,supply the cable,back fill etc etc why is this?
Why can’t power providers say , you can do the job , as long we specify spec of cable required and you dig trench and backfill to our specs, and you pay us just to connect cable to new transformer??

They do.
Thats the contestable or non contestable bits.

 

[Adam@Rumen]

1 phase would be fine for what we need, but it is worth going to 3 phase for future potential? Big difference in installation cost?

 

[farmerm]

Well mine for a similar distance, 45kva 3 phase including transformer upgrade and 10 foot of road crossing is 12.5k +vat. 5k of that is for the road crossing 2.5k of the 5k is for closing the road !.

unfortunately I still can’t afford it so I’m running off a PTO 3 phase genny which isn’t ideal but will have to do !.

That sounds pretty reasonable considering... given the stories I hear around I would expect Western Powers first quote for such work would be in well North of £30k...

 

[bobk]

If you have power lines you can ask them to bury them if they want to be tw4ts. eye for an eye .