Running Nearly 1/2 mile of Underground Electric, Costs over $64,000??!?! 

On the next episode, Matt builds a small nuclear reactor instead of dealing with the local power company haha.

I brought in 3phase power to my place about 6 years ago. It was for a 9600sq.ft shop and a future residence. The electric rep. told me that if it were for a residence rather than a shop, a lot of the costs I would not have to pay for, but for business service, I had to cover 100% of the costs myself. We planned to build a large house out there also about a year after the shop, but by then I would have already paid for everything except the 1 transformer for the house. What I did after talking with the power company rep was to build a 6 car garage with living quarters on top of it. By doing that the power company only charged me for the one extra wire for the 3 phase, and both of the transformers for my shop, everything else after working with the rep, they covered. Still cost me $28,000.00 but would have been almost $70,000.00 had I not built the garage-house first since they considered it to be 100% commercial had I built the shop first. Also, for the shop they totaled all the electric for the first year of use then for the next 5 years years, at the end of each year they rebated me 30% of the total first year billing for the shop. Unfortunately the first year usage of the shop was not a very big bill because I was moving all the equipment from my old shop and getting the new shop set up for use. In total over a 5 year period I got a rebate of about $1400.00 per year with a total of slightly over $7000.00 for the full 5 years. Had the shop been in full operation that first year I could have easily gotten over 50% of shop installation costs. Although cramped, by building the garage-apartment , it gave us a convenient place to live, while building our house. The house we sold, sold within 1 month of listing it, so the apartment was a great place to move into. When dealing with your county for permits, if you were to do the garage-apt. thing, NEVER, EVER say the word apartment when dealing with the building dept. for permits etc. Call it finished storage space or house, ( you can call it an inlaw suite but if you do there is a long list of requirements you will have to meet, and will cost you more money to build.) I stuck with conditioned, finished storage space on drawing and permits and that worked for me with no problems, just don't name rooms , bedrooms, kitchen etc. or there are much more requirements. If your area allows agricultural buildings, rename your shop as that, taxes will be lower and there can be other rewards depending on where you live. That's what my shop was called on all permits was an Ag. building, like you, I had lots of land so it met all necessary requirements as an Ag. Sorry to write so much, thought some of this might help you,since I already went through it all, for my state of VA I learned a lot of what and what not to do.

As an electrician this is a hell of a lot work for one person. Hats off to you

I'm in a similar boat with 1/2 mile between my shop project and utilities. Huge install costs, plus monthly bill is why I opted to go massive with off-grid solar and a back up generator. Will cost about the same to install, maybe a hair less but never have an electric bill that only goes up. I commend you for the undertaking! Especially since you had to get to a pole on the neighbors property, not on or at a right away. Definitely a crazy huge project!

Matt, between you and the power company, something was lost in translation. Hire an electrical contractor to pull the wire and set the transformer. Power company only has to connect you at the pole. There should be NO charge for that as hooking up to power is part of theirs tariff. And BTW... THAT was one hell of a job. You rock, brother!!

While I am very aware of the amount of labor and effort involved in layout, survey, removing trees, prep for a dig, trenching, gluing and placing your conduit, making road crossings, half back filling, placing caution tape, finishing the back fill and dressing the dig, I find it even more amazing and impressive that you are able to additionally and simultaneously set up shots on the run, have the presence of mind and creativity to record and produce a professional and enjoyable video that has enough continuity that your viewing public can enjoy ALL while dealing with the personal frustration of dealing with an unreasonable Electrical Power Distributor. Kudos Matt, our hats, hard, welding and otherwise are off to you!

You truly are a motivation to watch, Matt. Seeing you just get after everything like its nothing, no matter the size of the job, really makes a guy happy.

You should add an expansion fitting between the ground and meter base. This will prevent and damage from settling of the foundation and ground swell. Hope you got all the stones out of there. Thats a hell of a pull.

After watching this, I realize how much better equipped you are than the small public works I'm employed with...

My favorite part of this video is seeing the raw takes the double or triple takes of Matt trying to speak his mind. shows how much extra work goes into youtube on top of all the hard work in building his dreams. Keep going my friend I truly love your content

Here in the UK I got a quote for connecting my house to the Power Grid. It was £84,000 ($105,100)! The nearest power pole was 250 ft away but apparently the extra 100 Amps for our supply would push the system to breaking point so the whole local connection would have to change from overhead to underground back to the substation 2200 ft away. 10 years on we still use a 6KVA diesel generator!

I love watching you do 2 or 3 takes. It feels so much more real. Thanks for not editing them out.

I'm unreasonably excited for electrical to be run for a place I'll never go and for a person I'll likely never meet. Congratulations Matt, this should be a game changer for you!

The cost of pulling that wire and hooking it up is outrageous. I’m glad you’re contesting it, and I hope you receive a favorable decision on a more reasonable cost. You have done all of the hard work.

I was a lineman for years and done hundreds of new line installs, the electric co-op I worked for the first 300 feet was free and anything over that was $1.50 a foot and the co-op supplied the wire and conduit. It was the landowners responsibility to have the right of way cleared and the ditches dug. I retired in 2007 so I'm sure the prices have increased but $52,000 sounds waaaay too high!

$52,000 should have paid for THEM doing the whole job; parts and labour.

Little helpful tip with running pull cord through all that conduit. (I do it all the time where I work.) Cut the top off a coke bottle or a find a cup that fits loosely in the conduit(we usually use a 30oz Gatorade bottle but thats for 4"). Place string through cap of bottle and place in conduit with lid pointed into conduit so open cut off end of bottle will trap air making a seal. Then use a cordless leaf blower to blow string and bottle through conduit. Works way better than a shop vac. Also you might need to use a lighter pull cord for those longer runs. Big box store sell klien brand pull string but honestly we have started using poly baler twine. Its the same stuff. And then use that to pull the mule tape. Also my boss was able to work a deal when he built a house along way off the road and he bought the wire and pulled it all and saved a lot of money from what they originally quoted but he has contacts since we work with the field guys and he knew the right ppl to talk to but might be worth a offer. Good luck! Hope that helps.

Perhaps you have already requested this, but you should ask for an itemized list of the costs from the utility company. They should be able to do this and you would be able to really zero-in on the particular ridiculous figure(s). You are doing a tremendous job and you deserve special kudos for what you have done. The best to you!

Hi Matt. Regarding the cost of the transformer, in my experience working with real estate developers, it is normal for the developer of the lot to pay for the initial utility components. After the developer pays for the initial equipment, it is then up to the utility companies to maintain the equipment and replace as necessary. This is why empty lots in a subdivision cost so much. Great work on your project and thanks for really showing just how much work it was. It will all be worth it in the end:)

I'm sat here procrastinating about doing some small tasks on one of the car in the garage and you've done more work than a team would do in two weeks. Great motivation for the rest of us to get up and get busy Matt! Awesome work

Matt, I work in the utility sector, and those costs are ridiculous. I am in the midwest, so market rates may be Vastly different, but that seems like they are quoting you to open the trench and lay in the duct as well. If they wont come down on the price, it may be worth seeing if you can have a third party contractor come in and pull the primary.

I have never gotten a reasonable cost from utilities. The other thing I have never seen is one man do all that work!! 👏👏

Matt, I work for a rural electric in Nebraska, we would charge $9 a ft for primary urd plus 40% of the cost of the pad mount transformer and would also have a five year agreement. Customer is responsible for the trenching as well as secondary wiring. I’ll check tomorrow at work but I think it would be around $20,000.

Amazing that you did this project by yourself. Tremendous amount of work done well. This put me over the edge so I subscribed.

What I picked up towards the end of the video , was just how tired and frustrated you were at the end of this phase. You have my utmost respect Sir, and good luck in your dealings with the Electric Company shysters.

I ran into that. They wanted $48,000. Total solar was going to be about 22,000. Then no electric bill. I then talked to a private contractor and he quoted $5,000 plus labor if I trenched it.

A decent generator and fuel for $52k would’ve lasted a while 🤣 Nice digging Mat, hope you don’t have to do too much more in the future like this

Kudos!!! Having done a little ditch digging, I realize how hard and how much work goes into this process. Hours & hours of non-videoed physical labor unseen and therefor not appreciated in the process. In addition to the work that goes into shovel work and hassle of working around prior lays of pipe, line, etc etc. Not forgetting the huge amount of works in the video and editing!!

When I was your age (about 35 years ago) never in my wildest imagination would I have thought that I would be watching the hardest working guy on RU-vid working his butt off for my entertainment. My hat's off to you, thanks again for taking the time to make these videos. Now I know why you have collected all the various pieces of equipment over the years!

Matt, if you ever want fast internet service at the dream shop, you might want to look into pulling some fiber at same time as the electrical. This add-on might be surprisingly affordable if you're going to have to hire an external contractor anyway to avoid the power company's exorbitant pricing.

What a project. Loved the one-day turnaround between parts 1 and 2. I loved the couple of places where you showed more than one try at getting all that you had to say in one meaningful sentence. I have watched way too many videos where the comments are almost total gibberish, you take the time to re-do it until you say what you want to say. Can't wait to see how you do fighting the power company...

Matt, my husband and I both enjoy watching your videos. It is too late now, but he was a grounds manager at a resort for 38 years and laid lots of irriigation pipe. Duct tape over the ends when laying it will prevent dirt from entering the pipes. I am always amazed at how much you know about so many things.

49:41 they charge that much because they don't want to do it. If they laid the line they're responsible for it. They just don't care about one house. They care about a giant factory that uses $50k a month in power.

With the cost of material and labor you might have come out better with solar panels and back up batteries. I don’t know. Looks like you did a great job!

Outstanding job done all by yourself Matt. Between your day job and personal stuff to take care of as well, could only imagine the feat of this. Luckily you had the equipment at your disposal to assist you along the way, again good job👍😁

I love it when folks like you show an actual time clock. Your videos are much better at this than many others

I'm a lineman for a local utility (I also live in PA). That number is nuts but I'm not surprised. That job is a max 3 day job for a 4 man crew. Probably $250 hr (I get 1/5 of that) which includes the truck usage you're looking at 20-30k in just labor. Realistically a good 3 man crew could do it in 2 8 hr days.

We can sense the frustration as you contemplate dealing with the utility provider. Hang in there, maintain your cool and fight hard. Ask for an itemized quotation. Love watching your channel Matt.

Great job Matt! I agree with everyone else - an insane amount of work for one man to accomplish!

Reading the comments I totally agree with all of you, Matt you are one of a kind and I envy you in a good way. Keep it up! I live in South Africa where we have country wide loadshedding for more than a year now due to mismanagement, corruption and a total lack of maintenance for sometimes 8 -12 hours daily. Every area does have its own challenges but just imagine running a household never mind a business in conditions like this!. I will take a little red tape any time!!

Man that was a lot of work! Matt keeping it real in between takes, no stupid script in sight and no swearing either. I would bet filming and editing takes ages!

With all that work you still managed to take us along for the ride with lots of great camera shots....a ton of extra work just there! And the drone overview at the end was superb! Thanks so much for your quality production and ongoing effort!

What a huge project ! Congratulations on making it and good luck with your negotiation 🤞🤞🤞

Great to watch someone who knows what they are doing....GREAT JOB !

Make sure to tell your neighbour that the footage he allowed was appreciated 👍

Hi Matt, I can't believe what you're able to accomplish working by yourself. If you hired that work out they'd have had probably 5 or 6 guys doing it. The power company knows they're the only game in town and that they have you by the short hairs so they'll charge as much as they can. Please film their work so we can see how many shovel leaners they assign to the job. I really admire your work ethic.

Great job, you are a one man power and road crew!! I'm glad your closer to having power!

I am always blown away with all the cool equipment you have. I am from PA too and good luck with the PA Utility Commission. We buy our power from the borough electric company. Of which has a claus that prevents outside companies from selling power to us. I filed a complaint with the PAUC when we went through our billing and noticed irregularities. Their response was that they do not regulate municipality or borough companies. Only private companies. Really!!!!!. Good luck Matt. 50K is insane!

Matt… give yourself a well deserved pat on the back, take a well deserved restful break! You never cease to amaze me, you’re one studious, meticulous and creative young man, that works his butt off, isn’t afraid to dive in with sleeves rolled up, both hands! I enjoy following along, admire and respect your drive and work ethic! Great work on the conduit work!

I feel you have gone above and beyond what should have been done. That is absolute highway robbery that the electrical company is doing to you. Hopefully, it will get resolved. Thank you for sharing! I can hardly wait to see what is next! 🤔🙄😊

36:37 shows the essence of Diesel Creek. Hats off to you, you always find a better way.

The most amazing thing about this job is that Matt didn't buy an old abandoned trencher and fixed it to do this job.

I’m in Australia and about 300 metres from the nearest pole(it doesn’t have a transformer on it though) and with me doing the trench the local sparky said between him and the power company it would be about $80 thousand dollars! He suggested solar would be quite a bit cheaper , so I spent $20000 on solar instead

Awesome progress bro, awesome machine, Can't wait to see it done. Will be good to see some 9ther projects worked on again

Great job, Matt! Fingers crossed you succeed in your fight against the greedy energy scumbags!

Having done much of this type of work as a young man, I fully appreciate just how much physical, back wrenching work is involved. It is a TON! Thanks for bringing us along. BTW I am to the point where I view the utilities, commisioners, political pukes etc as the enemy. Yes, they are trying to bend you over to pull wire through a tube and make a connection. Shameful!

Matt, I spent most of my 45 year career working in the utility industry. I can tell you that nothing is ever done cheaply. I’m sure that 54K includes engineering costs, legal costs, and probably a lot of the work you’ve already done. Also, medium voltage cable has gone sky high in cost in recent years. Plus at each pull box, that cable will have to be spliced and tested. Utilities are very segmented, so the people you deal with probably only have a “per foot” cost number that they use for the estimate. Most likely they cannot give you answers about the details I mention above. The first thing I would do is request an itemized estimate that breaks down all materials and labor. The second thing I would do is contact some qualified electrical contractors in your area that are experienced in the installation of medium voltage electrical services. They can tell you who is authorized by your utility company to perform this work. You might be better off hiring them directly to run the primary service. Armed with a contractor estimate, I expect you would be in a stronger position to negotiate with the utility. Not to discourage you, but this could take much more time than you want. I’ve seen these things take years to be settled. Sorry, but that’s the truth in todays world. For the relatively small of mount of power you will need, I would have seriously considered a combination of solar, battery storage and diesel generator. That might still be a viable alternative.

Pull the line yourself and pay an electrician to connect the meter, check the pull boxes and build out and connect the reducer/transformer pad. The Power Company can just do the connection at the pole which is required for free as a public utility federally mandated tarriff. An electrician will cut that cost estimate by 2/3. Good job!

Matt , hats off to you !! I hope the power company gives you a break or a reasonable quote ! 👍🏼👍🏼

You know with the magic of editing, it makes you seem like that's an easy job there lol. I bet you will be happy to have everything done and have power running to your garage Matt.

Matt - As a suggestion, I would get or draw a property map and draw in ALL the underground wiring, water lines, drain lines and other underground lines you may have so in a year or two you'll know where they are. Also, this would help if another hired contractor comes in you can show what is under ground. Again, just a suggestion. Great video and I agree with you that someone's pockets are being lined with that amount of money.

I'm exhausted just watching! My Lord that's a LOT of work. Kudos to you sir.

Keep up the good work! Its amazing how you work around there yourself!

An incredible amount of work for one guy, well done. You've never mentioned the joys of dealing with inspectors on this project. We can't cover unless they inspect the depth, number of sweeps, on and on, and of course, at their convenience to make it to the site. Out here in Washington State we are captive to PP and L, ...Pacific Power and Larceny. It is a given, these days, for power companies to take on an elitist, corporate mindset. They act put out when you need a repair on downed lines and have no qualms making you wait for them to fit you into their schedule for the power they're overcharging you for.

I would 100% be asking for an itemized quote to see exactly where that cost is coming from. From there, I would be talking with some local electrical contractors to see what they can do separate from the power company to minimize costs. The 7kV line from the pole won’t require a large wire gauge, and that’s 90%+ of the run, so wire costs should be as “optimal” as you can get with your setup.

Hi Matt, my hubby loves your show her in Australia, he operates trenching machines here and said the scorpion tail at the back should be placed down after you start digging which helps clear the trench. He says he is great full that people like you are saving lost machinery and not scraping everything of history.

Matt… I’m in Minnesota, Brainerd Lakes Area to be exact. I had our local electrical power company run a line to a 40 x 90 building we built last year. The distance from the pole on the road to the building was about 600 feet. They supplied all the wire, ran it to the transformer next to the building and the total cost was about $800.

I agree that you can call in an independent certified contractor to pull the wire. Then they may even be able to do the transformer. Utility company to just stamp approval. Anyway, ton of work you did. Cudos

Be sure the utility installs a Riser Pole Surge Arrester at the power pole connection AND a deadfront surge arrester at the transformer!!! This will keep lightning out of your building and electrical equipment.

Absolutely the Best music of all the channels that I follow!! 👍😉 Thank you Semi-Super Villains😀😃👌

Great Job Matt, power company’s and county inspectors are standing by to make it as hard as they can on the workin man. You did all the work, not them !!!

That was a massive project, you handled it all like a pro!

That was a Herculean task for one guy Matt, nicely done.👍

Wow. Good job Matt. I am exhausted just watching you work. I love your determination. I can only imagine how much that would have cost to hire a contractor to do that work for you. You are an inspiration to me and have a great can do attitude.

Bloody big job Matt well done mate your an absolute machine 👍👏👏

Congratulations on completing a massive electrical project! It was really amazing watching you do the trenching, and laying in the conduit for the electrical wiring! Well done, Matt!

Despite all the effort and cost you did the right thing the right way. Another project of high quality work and great content to view! Cheers Matt 💪🏼

Congratulations on a difficult job well done. I love you guys who don’t allow themselves to be fazed, regardless of how difficult the job is.

Beautiful job done, beautiful property!

They quote you the same regardless of whether you trench/place conduit in the ground or they do, its just a per foot price. My experience is if you can go a couple rounds with them, they may drop the price, and if they wont play ball get the utility regulator involved, but this can take months or years. Also not yet having a residence under construction likely means they are charging you for the transformer, and they don't have any ability to factor in potential utility revenue. Just wanted to share some of my experience, the power company knows you have no other option, my advice is to find a way to incentive them to work with you, make friends with the person handling your case, and get your future house permitted so they can see that, Good luck!

Matt..First, dont forget to ball and brush the conduit before pulling in the final puling rope or mule tape. Electric work is always very expensive!! I would love to see and hear more about the install. You chose to run and underground service which is multiple the cost of dropping in a few poles and stringing some bare wire (which also might explain why they want you to pay for the entire wire run. You might have gotten your 300 feet if it was pole to pole).. Tell us wire size and type, Service type, voltage and amperage, size of transformer etc (didn't look like that pole had 3 phase so I am curious as to what is available in your area).. you finally told us that it was 3" sched 40 now tell us the rest... The utility charges what they charge because they can.. Monopoly, usually controlled by the state power authority.. With that said, there is more to the 54K than you think. First, the men and equipment are expensive. Lineman are very well paid, especially if in IBEW. They will send at least one bucket truck team for the pole and probably 4 guys to do the pulls. Pulling those long runs will require specialized pulling trucks. They will probably come in separately with a little boom tuck to set the transformer then send someone to splice and terminate. between each step they will probably send an inspector. There will be a lot of man and equipment hours for those highly paid elekchickens inspectors and managers. Yes, you are paying for the transformer, which is very expensive and are very hard to come by (there is still a massive shortage of the high permeability silicon steel needed for the lamination..I am still quoting customers 80 - 90 months on power transformer and other large power equipment that s not already in the pipeline. Smaller transformer are still 3-4 months if you cannot find it on the shelf or on an existing back-order.). You are paying because they would not have to put it where it is going if you didn't want it there. They are also per-assessing you some of the added maintenance and emergency call out service that they would not otherwise need to provide. Remember, you will be paying the same electric usage rates as someone on a developed road with no personal demands on their system other than a power drop off the pole to the house 100 ft away. Now comes the costs that are harder to put your arms around. You are adding load and complexity to their network. It might not seem like much but it all must be accounted for all they way back to the substations and power generation system. As the calculated loads go up they might need to beef up a transformer or put in larger cables, add capacitors and other load smoothing equipment at their substations ect. They might actually do some work upstream just because you are being added to the load on that particular circuit, you would never know nor should you. They also are charging you for their engineering and project management. All things being equal, I think you might be pretty lucky to get away with 54K but In would like to see you beat them back for 10K or so..

Very well done Matt. You are to be congratulated not penalised. Very best of luck in your quest to get a fair deal. Might is not always right!

My guess was $50 grand, I work for telecom and these construction estimates are pretty normal though totally insane. What’s crazy is you’ve done the bulk of the work

The closing drone shot, especially going back to the shop over the tree canopy, was positively cinematic. I'd have watched the whole thing just for that shot! Great to see you enjoying the delicate photography as much as you enjoy getting your boots dirty moving the conduit into place. Thanks as always for having us along for the project!

Matt you're one of the hardest workers if not the hardest worker on RU-vid. The fact that you do all of this by yourself is mind boggling! That is why you have what you have. Keep it up !

Matt, I manage the construction of gas upgrading facilities all over the US. We routinely pull in 1,200 to 3,000 Amp (3 phase) services. We supply the materials, permits, and misc. cost for a service entrance (ie. Conduit, Wire, Concrete Pads, Transformer, Switch Gears) to the power company and they provide the labor. We routinely pay $36-$53K for these entrances (All In Cost). The power company usually charges us $12- $15K for their portion which is typically prorated out over the course of 72 months on the monthly service invoice. If I were you, I would be thankful they didn’t require the road and waterway crossings to be encased in dyed concrete, we have ran into a lot of that recently.

Got all that rusty junk and had to rent equipment. I feel your pain Matt. Have many gravely walk behind tractors. Had to buy a modern field mower. Sometimes you just gotta get it done with no interruptions and equipment failures. Great stuff Matt. Good luck with the power company. Cost me $7,000.00 dollars to put in a telephone pole and panel onto my property. Ran the final 100 feet to another box in a building myself. Between plans, contractors permits and the town in general it was a major pain. Ran generators for 6 years. I always appreciate it when I now turn on the lights.

Well, 16 hours after this video premiered I think there's at least a majority of the 49,000 people who've watched it, know just how hard you worked to get this job done! I'm amazed you tackled this solo! An extraordinary amount of planning and work! The only experience I've had with the power company and running wire was above ground on poles but they got us for $11,000 for 800' of an installation for a water well we put in for filling duck hunting lakes (not counting the well casing and pump by the well contractor ((who incidentally KNEW that 800' from a bluff, we would hit water at 75 feet deep (79' exactly))). Best of luck with getting that price to a more manageable number. Can't wait to see that boiler fire up and see some STEAMING CONCRETE!

Much Respect to you Matt. You're a go getter and you are not afraid of hard work. Even with all of the equipment there still was a lot of back breaking labor involved. I am really happy that you soon will have POWER! ⚡⚡⚡. Thanks for taking us along and I definitely look forward to your next video. 👍👍

When I was having my house built it was the last item to be built, first came the septic and water well. I had all the plans to present which included the house, I did have a small cabin in the same area at the time. The electric company here is a Co-op, the total length of my electric was just 50ft short of one mile, here the homeowner pays one-third of the total cost, $12,000 was my share of the cost, the land where the cable is buried is mostly level and slightly rolling and no trees along this portion and parallels the driveway, this was 4 years ago, this was for buried cable, I imagine it would be much more today. I enjoy your videos, Thank You!

Matt, great job in the trenches. The battle now is getting the utility company to justify their charge. In the meantime, check out steam for motive power to drive a pump for circulating the water under your garage/ shed floor. Love your channel mate. Cheers from Sydney, Australia.

Excellent video!! Really an insane amount of work for one guy. Having the right equipment helps for sure but damn! The fly through at the end really shows that which was a great touch. 52 grand is ridiculous. Fight it. This is probably my favorite channel on RU-vid and a like is always well deserved. Great job Matt!!

As posted in the part 1, what you have done is crazy hard work. Grit, determination, motivation in abundance here. All the very best.

You sure are a hard working dude, Matthew !! I was impressed with not only your attitude, but the strenuous efforts you put into this project !!

Matt ask them for a price if you buy and pull your own wire, and all they have to do is hook it into the main, and hook and set the transfer boxes...

I think your videos, whether in the shop or outdoor projects, are the most interesting ones on RU-vid. Watching you work mostly by yourself inspires me because it's just me doing my projects too. You're a patient man and I'm definitely not 😊

Thoroughly enjoying these longer videos Matt. Well done on a fantastic job.

In the last part you feel your true soul and concern , running such a big channel with such topics has stratospheric costs both in money and in work, commitment and stress. I hope you will be able to pay a fair amount which for me would be about 6k excluding cables, a hug my friend 💪💪😉

Most likely the power company will sub-contract out the job to pull the wires , set the transformer and connect everything up to the meter socket , then send a crew from the electric company to connect up the power at the pole and install the meter , but $52,000 to do all that is outlandish , keep pushing back Matt !!!!

Power company is insane. Keep pushing Matt! Love your content!