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running electricity 1000 ft from road

Posted on 8/20/26 at 12:23 pm
Posted by diat150
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2005
48238 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 12:23 pm
has anyone went thru this recently with one of the local power companies? slemco, cleco, entergy, etc

IM fine with going overhead if its cheaper. waiting for them to go out and survey just mostly interested if anyone has done something similar recently to get an idea of what the price would be.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
76431 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 1:12 pm to
A friend of mine has a large greenhouse operation at least 1000 ft from the road. The power company would only drop it at the road, she had to hire contractors to bring it all the way back to the house and the greenhouse operation.

This is in Georgia, power company Walton EMC.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
76431 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 1:14 pm to
How much amperage are you needing? Have you looked into solar? It's come a long way and prices are down at the moment.
Posted by way_south
Member since Jul 2017
979 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 1:19 pm to
WSTE ran to my house for free when we built 5 years ago. They just made me sign something stating I wouldn't pursue power with another company which we have access to from the other side of our place.
Posted by diat150
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2005
48238 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 1:40 pm to
quote:

How much amperage are you needing? Have you looked into solar? It's come a long way and prices are down at the moment.


prob a 200a service, for a small "lake house" but I also want to run aerators for my pond.

Posted by WhiskeyThrottle
Weatherford Tx
Member since Nov 2017
7415 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:43 pm to
Local co op west of fort worth. Municipality trenched 150' in rock and it was $8,500 or so.
Posted by LSUAlum2001
Stavro Mueller Beta
Member since Aug 2003
49255 posts
Posted on 8/20/26 at 5:56 pm to
They would need a ROW to drop a transformer close to your house, whether it's above ground, or at grade.

A 1,000' run of 120/240V would be a very large voltage drop.
Posted by bluedragon
Birmingham
Member since May 2020
10106 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:32 am to
8 hours a day?

Stupidity prevails with solar.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
76431 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 12:30 pm to
quote:


8 hours a day?

Stupidity prevails with solar.


There's ways to store electricity. It's use-case dependent. If it's a hunt camp or fish camp, it can make a lot of sense, especially if it's a mile off the road. That's why I asked what his use-case was.

ETA- did you actually graduate Auburn or are you just a redneck sidewalk fan?

Hint: There's no correct answer ....
This post was edited on 8/21/26 at 12:32 pm
Posted by bluedragon
Birmingham
Member since May 2020
10106 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:44 pm to
You handled solar and wind farms? Or just shoot your mouth off on things you know nothing about? While you were playing with yourself, I was marketing and selling both. Keeping 350 families at work.

Don’t sound like the village idiot, when you never marketed sold or managed success.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
76431 posts
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:20 pm to
quote:

You handled solar and wind farms? Or just shoot your mouth off on things you know nothing about? While you were playing with yourself, I was marketing and selling both. Keeping 350 families at work.

Don’t sound like the village idiot, when you never marketed sold or managed success.


So you are a sidewalk redneck Auburn fan?
Posted by Skeeterzx190
Ponchatoula
Member since Sep 2019
384 posts
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:07 pm to
Dealing with this just recently. I purchased 32 acres at the end of a road. Entergy installed 4 power poles and connected to my temporary pole for construction. The issue I had were the trees in the way. We cleared a road and Entergy wanted 30 feet clearance on each side of the road, and that is from
The ground to the heavens. Any canopy from a beautiful tree had to be cut or the whole tree removed. I had to pay them to trim my new neighbors trees in her front yard as well.
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