Landlocked Property: How to Get Power 400 Meters from the Main Road?

[ward]

Could use some advice on this since I'm not too keen on electricity after a childhood mishap involving curious fingers and an active socket 🙂

 

We’ve been offered a nearby property below market price, and are currently in the due diligence process. The parcel is landlocked, so we’re likely purchasing the access road as well and getting electricity pulled from the public road, with the line installed on concrete posts (we'd put these in ourselves) around 3 meters high.

 

Does anyone know how far we can pull a new line from an existing PEA line/pole before needing any expensive extra equipment? (transformers etc?) Or the costs to have a line + the required amount of poles installed by PEA?

We're planning to build a modest 2b2b farmhouse, and the distance to cover is roughly 400 meters. Our neighbor has done something similar, (line on bamboo poles) with their house about 200 meters from the main road and PEA poles.
 

Appreciate any firsthand experience or tips! 

[Crossy]

There's really no limit to how far you can go, you just need to size the cable appropriately.

 

From a volt-drop perspective for 400m on a 15/45 meter you're looking at 120mm² in aluminium cable (copper would be astronomically expensive and would tend to wander off in the night).

 

Definitely talk to the local PEA office, they may have a limit as to how far from the meter (which would be on their pole) they will let your home be.

[ward]

That’s awesome. I’ll definitely do that. Thanks for the helpful info—really appreciated!