DNO curve ball - Section 37?

[MPx]

12 hours ago, New to this said:

@MPx well done - great result in a tricky situation. My inspector suggested that his DNO were misinterpreting the 1989 legislation and that I shouldn't have this issue at all - who is the DNO for your part of the world, out of interest? Sounds like they have a more pragmatic approach, albeit you've gone around the situation a different way.  Mine won't allow me to put a new pole off the last (current) pole. SO frustrating! 

 

Our build is [will be?] in Crewkerne South Somerset and National Grid are the DNO and have a base there (took over the area from Western Power).  I had a very helpful chap (Scott Bisset) discuss my requirements on site with me and suggest alternatives before handing on to the implemetation team (overseen by Matt Pougher) who have also been a pleasure to deal with.  Seems to me you've just been incredibly unlucky with who has dealt with your application - a great shame for you.  Can you "change your mind" and withdraw it all for a couple of weeks then re-apply and hope its passed to someone sensible?

[-rick-]

7 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

They could reduce the head in the current end of line property to 60a and give you the same 60a allowance. 

 

The regs say kV - kilovolts, not kVA - kilovoltamps. Totally different things.

 

I can see how this reg applies if they want to extend a 20/33kV line onto a pole near the property and pop a transformer on it. But if the existing line is low voltage already then this doesn't make sense.

 

23kVA is 230V x 100A, not 33kV x 0.7A

 

Has someone at the DNO got their wires very much crossed? If you are in a garden of existing property it's not like you should need to go to a higher voltage due to distance.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by -rick-

[ProDave]

7 minutes ago, -rick- said:

I can see how this reg applies if they want to extend a 20kV line onto a pole near the property and pop a transformer on it. But if the existing line is low voltage already then this doesn't make sense.

 

But even then, the single property exemption would cover that.

 

Like you I think this is a very unusual muddled up situation.

[-rick-]

3 minutes ago, ProDave said:

But even then, the single property exemption would cover that.

 

13 hours ago, New to this said:

• Exemptions: Consent is generally not required for lines with a voltage of 
  20kV or less used for supplying a single consumer, or lines on premises already under the control of the operator.

 

I read this as requiring the line be below 20kV and serving a single customer. (But I think this is just the Google summary, not checked the actual law).