New developments all need new electricity supplies. The break up of the electricity industry has created a series of complex arrangements in order to instigate the installation, metering and energisation of any new supply point.

For an agreed fixed fee URS offers a unique 'one-stop' service co-ordinating all of this activity on your behalf, saving you time and money and ensuring supplies are installed and energised to your specific requirements. The service is equally applicable for those customers that have outgrown their existing electricity supply and require an increase in capacity, or even their own on-site high voltage sub-station.

Who Benefits? Architects, Property Developers, Civil Engineering Contractors, Project Management Companies, Electrical Contractors, M & E consultants etc.

The URS package includes:

• Assisting clients in the calculation of load requirements.
  Too high and the client pays excessive Capacity Charges
  Too low and the client may face an unwelcome restriction in their power usage.
• Making formal application to the appropriate REC (Regional Electricity Company)
• Challenging REC quotes and technical designs - where appropriate
  (see Competition in Connection below).
• Procuring formal REC Connection Agreements
• Project manage all site works - ensuring deadlines are met
• Arrange metering installation & procurement of formal metering contracts
• Evaluate electricity supplier options (the right supplier nomination could save thousands of pounds over the life of a supply contract) See: Energy Procurement
• Liase with electrical contractor, Metering Company, REC and Electricity Supplier to ensure energisation.

All of the above provides the client with a single point of contact and one less headache to deal with whilst developing new premises.

Competition in Connection

This is a relatively new activity enabling accredited contractors the ability to compete for work usually restricted to RECs. Instigated by OFGEM (The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets), it enables customers to choose who provides their new electrical connection therefore encouraging competition and ultimately reducing costs and increasing service levels.

Such works can include trenching, cable laying and jointing, reinstatement, overhead line construction, sub-station installation etc.

Competition in Connection can prove extremely advantageous in those cases where REC charges are excessive or when lead times unacceptable. URS has developed links with a number of highly competent accredited contracting organisations offering an alternative to this otherwise monopolistic activity.

URS is able to evaluate all options to ensure that your new supply is installed at the lowest possible cost.

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