tregoningmatt

I've now met with a low voltage planner and HV planner who came out to site, spoken to the HV planner yesterday and he said there is no room for negotiation, the price is the price, also that the volt drop on the 300m run to our place ruled out putting in 3 phase and doubling the voltage...there is 11000 volts going into the existing pole at the bottom of our track so basically we are being asked to pay £35K to take the HV supply 150m further up our track. Unfortunately the other transformer in the hamlet is the same distance away, so no help there. Competition in Connections is a farce if you're a domestic customer who just wants 1 connection. Will keep trying...

Does an outbuilding conversion count as a new build? Thanks Temp, must be 11kv then. We are on our own up a 300m track so there are (I hope!) no plans to build more houses. I have attached their plan, there is a low voltage line to our current house which is 50m from the outbuilding but they've said the volt drop is such that they can't put any more demand on the line, or put another LV line alongside it. Emu_18062020_130131.overlay-Default-000.pdf

Hi, we are in the same boat as Christine, we have received a quote from Western Power for £29,000 plus VAT (which I assume is at 20%) plus wayleaves and groundworks, which will bring us up to around £40K. We are at the end of the line and they have to take new 11kva high voltage lines underground to a new transformer on an existing pole, plus another pole by the road, with close to 300m of HV cable, jointing and so on. We are in West Cornwall, the nearest Independent Connection Provider I can find is in Cardiff (?!), a lot don't do high voltage and the ones that do won't do a single dwelling, so looks like we're stuck with Western Power. I've seen a couple of posts that said they got their DNO's quote down substantially or got a refund later. Is there an established procedure for doing this, or do you just have to argue with them? My reading of the Electricity Act suggests that DNOs have a statutory duty to supply a connection, but £40K is an insane amount - 11kva would be enough to supply about 40 houses...Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone, my partner Claire and I will be starting our outbuilding conversion in West Cornwall in the spring. We are currently getting in the services, (the noise you can hear in the background is the borehole drillers) which will be the subject of my first proper post. We will be building a 126 square meter single storey dwelling with tin roof to fit in with the local aesthetic ; looking forward to the challenge and to engaging with the buildhub community, hopefully we can help some people out too! Matt