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There must surely be some point where your responsibility ends and the electricity supply company is responsible for the equipment, or do you do everything as far back as their substation?
We take it from the jacks at the substations then to the switch gear so ours start at the substation
 
It's not priced per amp!
The price can be anywhere from a couple of hundred pounds if it's as simple as having the fuse or cutout changed, to tens of thousands if they have to dig up the street and replace the cable.

We don’t pay the power company nothing. We fill out a load sheet and they take it from there
 
We take it from the jacks at the substations then to the switch gear so ours start at the substation

Lets be sure of what is implied when you talk of supply from a substation
Can you give a example of the work and highway notifications required to get a supply into a new dwelling
 
Lets be sure of what is implied when you talk of supply from a substation
Can you give a example of the work and highway notifications required to get a supply into a new dwelling
To start with we are not talking about new installations for a huge plant we I thought we was taking about houses power is already there and you might upgrade but that doesn’t mean the power does. You upgrade the new service and the power company hits it. What you are talking about is what we call it a capital project, like a new company buying land and building from scratch an industrial project. We have nothing to do with that we set the gear and run it out to where the power company wants. Houses you build a service install approved SE cable up the outside of the which your drip loop has to be a minimum of 10feet from ground
 

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