Cost to Run Electricity?

[Fargus]

Anyone have a rough idea what it would cost to run electricity onto a property that currently has no power, no pole and obviously no meter. It would need to run between 50 and 100 yards.

The local coop wants membership fees and possibly a $300 deposit before they will even provide an estimate.

[Stan R]

If you are in a Co-Op they have to do the runs.

I paid almost $9,000 to get mine done. I do not remember how far But it was 3 poles and a 2 200 amps service drops.

They did give me back $1500 after about 2 years

[Matt_C]

If you are in a Co-Op they have to do the runs.

I paid almost $9,000 to get mine done. I do not remember how far But it was 3 poles and a 2 200 amps service drops.

They did give me back $1500 after about 2 years

Whoa....$9,000? I would have used a generator.... Dang Stan.....

[npe001]

I would say 4000-6000 might get you pretty close

[DosToros]

I don't know but texas has some screwy power line rules. i bought a piece of property and went to get the power turned on at the barn. The lines crossed a caliche road to NEP coop supply poles. They had redrawn the territories and they wouldn't allow my property be powered by poles accross the caliche road. If I wanted power I had to bring in AEP poles down my side of the caliche road a mile. They actully came out and cut the line that crossed the road. And I own the property on the other side of the caliche road too and have power over there. For the price they wanted I went and bought more land with power already on it. So now I have a barn in the middle of a 200 acre crop field with poles all the way to the road with a cut line at the road.

[marshman]

I was quoted approx $800-900 for mine from the co-op in the Toledo Beach area on Toledo Bend. Course the lines are already on the street so that was just running from there to my location and setting a pole and meter in.

[aggie11]

What electric coop serves the area?

[Killer]

If you are in a singly certified area set up by the PUC for the coop you have no other options. Even if it was dually certified if the other power company's facilities were a long ways off it would cost more. i would think you being that close it would not be that expensive. I work for a public utility and if you were installing a permanent meter(house or barn) that close it would not cost you anything from the company I work for to extend the power to you overhead.

[Stan R]

Whoa....$9,000? I would have used a generator.... Dang Stan.....

I am with Mid-South.

And I did use a generator for a long time.

[Fargus]

It would be Guadalupe Valley Elect Coop in DeWitt County

[Fightinaggies]

Mine dropped the poles for free and I built my own service. First 500' was free then you had to pay after that but I was within that

[Javelin]

For a new home my coop does it free

[yanta61]

Not sure of your location but it's going to be around $2500 to run about 500' into my place. That's 2 poles and I have to supply the meter pole/loop.

[ColinR]

PEC quoted me $12k to run a line to our deer camp but that was between half and three quarters of a mile. Not bad if you ask me.

[JonBoy]

Anyone have a rough idea what it would cost to run electricity onto a property that currently has no power, no pole and obviously no meter. It would need to run between 50 and 100 yards.

The local coop wants membership fees and possibly a $300 deposit before they will even provide an estimate.

My property is NW of Fredericksburg near Doss. I called CTEC about running electricity to my place...to run it down the road to the corner of my property would be about a 1/2 mile run. They wouldn't even come out to formally quote it unless I agreed to get it done and the best they would do over the phone was quote me their worst case cost of $9/foot!! Total cost of $24,000! The problem I had with that is that it would be run next to other neighboring properties (who also don't have electric) which would ultimately benefit them but they have no current interest in sharing the cost. It would literally be just as expensive to install a solar/wind system and at least at that point I wouldn't have a bill.