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ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS

Tacoma Power’s Electrical Construction Standards are requirements for residential and commercial electrical construction and maintenance.

CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS

Standard # 
Standard Title

A-UG-1150 Precast Concrete Vault Applications & Specifications (Revised November 2, 2009)

A-UG-1200 Padmounted Transformer, Location Requirements (Revised November 20, 2007)

C-SV-1100 Meter Pole Requirement & Installation (Revised July 12, 2007)

C-SV-1200 Underground Secondary Service Box - Residential (Revised December 3, 2007)

C-SV-3000 Customer Transformer Service Vault (Revised August 5, 2002)

C-SV-3200 Commercial Secondary Service (Revised May 6, 2010)

C-SV-3250 Commercial Un-metered Service (Revised May 3, 2010)

C-SV-4000 Downtown Secondary Network Service (Revised July 19, 2002)

C-SV-5100 Voltage Flicker Limits (Revised October 28, 2002)

C-UG-1100 Conduit Installation (Revised March 10, 2005)

C-UG-1150 Custom Vault Installations (Revised September 28, 2005)

C-UG-1200 Pole Conduit Riser (Revised May 6, 2010)

C-UG-1300 Joint Utility Trench (Revised August 4, 2008)

C-UG-1400 Primary Pad-Mount Equipment Guard Post Installation (Revised January 2, 2002)

C-UG-1500 Primary Junction Box Installations (Revised November 2, 2004)

C-UG-1700 Pad-Mount Transformer Vault Installation (Revised March 12, 2007)

C-UG-2000 Precast Concrete Vault, Approved Vendors (Revised May 16, 2007)

C-UG-8000 Vegetation Management for Underground Systems (Revised May 30, 2002)

C-UG-9000 Installation of Street Lights with Underground Supply (Revised November 19, 2003)

C-MR-0020 Unsupervised Meters (December 17, 2009)

JOINT UTILITY CONSTRUCTION

Standard #  Standard Title

C-OH-1060 Attachment Requirements for Overhead Joint Utility Construction (Revised August 4, 2008)

C-OH-9000 Clearance Requirements for Overhead Joint Utility Construction (Revised April 4, 2002)

TREE TRIMMING

Standard #   Standard Title

W-OH-0020 Vegetation Management of Overhead Lines (Revised May 17, 2004)

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ADDITIONAL SERVICES & CONTACT INFO

We are in the initial stages of placing our standards online. Therefore, some standards might not be included. Please contact the following groups for assistance:

Electrical service installation and meter requirements

Electrical Inspection Office: (253) 502-8277

New residential, commercial, or industrial development

New Service Engineering: (253) 502-8436