HANDBOOK REQUIREMENTS - Central Maine Power Company

Company’s local Line Supervisor. If required, the support and
positioning brackets shall be provided by the
cable owner.
There shall not be more than eight (8) conductors per spade
for a three phase padmount. There shall not be more than six (6)
conductors per spade for a single phase padmount. Cases
involving more conductors than these limits must be referred to
the company for special design and prior approval.
Cases involving more than one customer per transformer
or
exceeding the above number
of conductors per phase must be
referred
to the Company for special design. Secondary
connections to padmount and vault transformers are to be
coordinated with the local Service Coordinator; normally the
customer (contractor) will terminate the cables, position and
support the cables to minimize the weight load on the transformer
bushings and assemble all connectors on the transformer bushings.
Where multiple customers are supplied from one
transformer, each service must be properly identified. The neutral
conductor must be properly identified. See paragraph 501 of this
handbook and Section 200.6 of the NEC.
All highway lighting secondary underground circuits shall
be installed in galvanized steel or heavy-wall non-metallic conduit
(Schedule 40 minimum).
907.
UNDERGROUND RESIDENTIAL DISTRIBUTION
( URD) DEVELOPMENTS
The Company will provide an underground distribution
system in a residential development where: (1) such system is
requested by a builder or developer who meets the requirements
outlined herein, (2) where soil and
terrain conditions, in the
opinion of the Company, would permit such a system, and (3) no
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