Length of power outage during install

[SoCal Dave]

Service upgrades can be difficult because they often need to be coordinated with the city and the power company.

Some places allow the electrician to disconnect the power feeding the service, do the upgrade and temp back in the power until the utility company does the permanent hookup.

Others are on the other extreme where you need to have the power company disconnect the power, have the electrician do the upgrade, have the city inspect and then have the power company restore power. It is usually well coordinated (no one wants a home without power for a long period except PG&E), but doesn't always happen in a single day.

 

[Imolared]

Ha ha ha! Must have heard you, I made final payment last Tuesday and got the docs from PGE to e-sign 2 hours later. Just got an email from PGE that it's ok to turn on. Pretty happy and perfect timing as it's finally clearing up here in the Bay Area from the smoke and ask last week.

 

[Dypkny845]

Got solar only installed a couple of weeks ago and they never turned off my power. Must of had a brave electrician.

 

[solarAddict]

Just had a visit of electrician who is going to do service upgrade and lead engineer from the the solar installer. So happy I decided to do everything at once and not to deal with different parties. The estimated down time for service upgrade 4-5 hours. Then solar team will be here for 2-3 days.