What are some typical costs for the electrical utility to run service

[sunbelt56]

I live in a pretty isolated area and I'm in the middle of deciding how many panels & batteries to buy. I tell people what I'm doing and they wonder why I just don't get the electrical utility to provide service. I can see some poles about a mile or so away and I just assumed it would be too costly to install poles. So can anyone provide a ball-park figure? Is it by the number of poles or the distance from the nearest sub-station or whatever. Just curious.

[bigrockcandymountain]

$15000 canadian dollars to run 900' from the existing line was my quote 5 years ago.  I am off grid 900' from the grid ha ha.

I would guess $30 000 to $50 000 but that is just a guess.  Where are you at?

[SparWeb]

I just noticed that Sunbelt put Wyoming into his member profile page. 
I don`t know how that helps, though.

You`d know for sure if you called the utility and got a quote, of course. 
Not sure if you get any choice in the matter.  I wouldn`t.
There`s only one owner of the lines in my area, so to get connected they have to call the one utility.

Something I noticed is that poles around here are often about 100 yards apart. 

[dnix71]

35 years ago I had a regular stop to pick up and deliver printed material in West Palm Beach. One print shop installed a 3-phase converter because FP&L wanted $20k to run lines across the street to give him 3-phase. It was much cheaper to just tap the neighbor's bay panel and pay their electric bill and use both panel's power to get 3-phase to run his 4-color Hamada press.

It wasn't a major road or far away. Just a one lane street. A couple hundred feet at most.