Line Extension Services

Definitions
Service Extension: A service extension is the electric facilities required to connect the power line existing at the time of the request for service to the customer’s premises. The service extension shall include all poles, primary wiring, secondary wiring, transformer(s), meter(s), right-of-way acquisition and clearing, trenching and backfilling, and any other one-time cost items associated with service only to that new customer.

Service Drop: The service drop includes a 100-foot overhead power line(s) from the secondary of the transformer(s) to the point(s) of contact at the customer’s facility(ies), transformer(s) and meter(s). The service drop is the minimum overhead secondary electrical connection and shall not include poles, primary wiring, right-of-way clearing or acquisition, trenching or backfilling, or any other cost item required to serve a new or relocated customer.

Service Relocation: A service relocation is any change in the location of a service facility, including conversion from overhead to underground and underground to overhead, requested by the customer that results in a one-time cost or expense to make the change.

Contributions-In-Aid-Of-Construction: The monetary contributions by a customer requesting service to an electric utility to design, furnish, place and construct such primary and secondary service extensions as are necessary to render the service requested.

Conduit: The pipe that encloses and protects electric conductors in underground power installations, including necessary fittings and connectors.

Customer-Owned Lines: Electric service lines, at either primary or secondary voltage, extending from the terminals of the utility’s meter on the customer’s side to the premises being served.

Looped Electric Utility Service: Electric service provided to a customer from a distribution line which receives, or is capable of receiving, its electric supply from both directions of the distribution line.