What's Covered
Maintaining an electrical system is a lot like farm machinery maintenance: Without regular attention and necessary repairs, it may fail prematurely. And there certainly is a lot that can go wrong.
Public Service's Farm Rewiring Program is designed to help you correct your farm's wiring problems.
The minimum requirements for the Farm Rewiring Program include:
- 4-wire service to barn and all sub-panels.
- All Midwest pole-top switches must be replaced.
- Over-current protection required for all underground services and feeders on each end.
- Grade level installations not meeting fault current levels require a current limit disconnect.
Qualifying work can include — but is not limited to — the following:
- Replacing aluminum wire with copper.
- Increasing service wire size to reduce voltage drop.
- Correcting electrical code violations.
- Correcting sub-panel wiring.
- Installing energy-efficient lighting and equipment.
- Installing equipotential planes.
- Replacing 120V load with 240V load.
- Upgrading to 3-phase service. (Contact agricultural consultant for details.)
- Repairing bad connections.
- Consolidating multiple services in the barn to a single service.
- Inspection costs.
Other items pre-approved by Public Service agricultural consultant.
What Isn't Covered?
Some of the work that does not qualify under Public Service's Farm Rewiring Program includes:
- Installing mitigating equipment, such as isolation transformers, neutral isolators, "grounding rings", electronic grounding systems, etc.
- Moving transformers away from major loads.
- Increasing Public Service transformer size unnecessarily.
- Removing underground primary conductors.
- Wiring done on new construction projects.