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Guides & requirements

Customer guides

Residential rewiring Residential rewiring Use this quick reference guide along with the PUD Residential Service Overhead or Underground guide to meet all your requirements.
Residential overhead service (form 2243) Residential overhead service (form 2243) Information about installing residential electrical service with overhead lines (Rev 4/18)
Residential underground service (form 2240) Residential underground service (form 2240) Information about installing residential electrical service with underground lines (Rev 4/18)
Temporary service (form 1539) Temporary service (form 1539) Information about establishing temporary electrical service (Rev 4/18)
Portable generators Portable generators Information about using portable generators (Rev 7/16)
Area lighting Area lighting Information on the various types of area lighting available (Rev 7/16)
Distribution transformer impedance and fault currents Distribution transformer impedance and fault currents 4/18

Electrical service requirements

The information contained in this manual is intended to provide electrical contractors, architects, building contractors, engineers, and other customers with the specific technical information needed for determining acceptable methods of receiving electrical service from the PUD.
ESR manual: table of contents ESR manual: table of contents Changes are indicated by a bold vertical bar in the left margin (revised 1/27/15)
ESR manual: section 1 ESR manual: section 1 Definitions (revised 1/27/15)
ESR manual: section 2 ESR manual: section 2 General requirements (revised 3/28/22)
ESR manual: section 3 ESR manual: section 3 Overhead service (revised 1/31/22)
ESR manual: section 4 ESR manual: section 4 Underground service (revised 6/15/22)
ESR manual: section 5 ESR manual: section 5 Meters & service entrance (revised 5/17/22)
ESR manual: section 6 ESR manual: section 6 Generation interconnection (revised 7/12/17)

Customer forms

Electrical service requirement (form 6-1 Word) Electrical service requirement (form 6-1 Word) Preliminary application for customer-owned generation (save this Word file to your hard drive before filling out)
Electrical service requirement (form 6-1 PDF) Electrical service requirement (form 6-1 PDF) Preliminary application for customer-owned generation (if you don't have Word, you can print this PDF to fill out the form)
Electrical service requirement (form 6-2 Word) Electrical service requirement (form 6-2 Word) Final application for customer-owned generation (save this Word file to your hard drive before filling out)
Electrical service requirement (form 6-2 PDF) Electrical service requirement (form 6-2 PDF) Final application for customer-owned generation (if you don't have Word, you may print this PDF to fill out the form)
Temporary permit for utility pole attachment (form 2131) Temporary permit for utility pole attachment (form 2131) Revised 08/07
Variance application revised Variance application revised Revised 12/24/13