Electrical Main Panel
Call your Electric company and tell them you're doing a panel upgrade and you are adding load. You're going 200A to 200A, but for more breaker space. ...sounds like you are overhead fed. It's a pretty rudimentary request for them.
Electric Company will cut your service wire at the pole OR disconnect at your weatherhead, safe end it, and tie it to roof. Pulling the meter still leaves part of the physical panel hot (meter clips, wire in weather head, etc)
Then you can do your upgrades to the panel and weather head. The size of the weatherhead and wire inside of it needs to meet current NEC code (wire size/type per pipe size) and utility company construction requirements. Utility companies publish their panel installation requirements and contacts. Like this random one from Seattle: https://web8.seattle.gov/city-light-engineering-standards/Home/GetPDF?libId=RESC&searchForfileName=RESC 2022 EDITION FINAL.pdf
When you're done, get a electrical panel city/county/AHJ permit clearance. Like said should be automatically sent to Utility Company (but check).
Then the Utility Company will connect your service wire up (replace or upgrade if necessary) , re-energize your panel, put a new lock ring seal on your meter and all is good.
If the utility company sees a new panel without a lock ring seal it will ask for an inspection. If not provided, it will cut your power until you get an inspection.
If you want to shorten your down time, put your new panel one stud over from the old panel. Get inspection on new panel, the utility company will move the overhead service wire to new panel, leave, and it will be up to you to move circuits over to the new panel to energize each one with the safety of the main breaker and circuit breaker (probably removed) to protect you. -This doesn't work for UG feeds very well though.
Call your Electric company and tell them you're doing a panel upgrade and you are adding load. You're going 200A to 200A, but for more breaker space. ...sounds like you are overhead fed. It's a pretty rudimentary request for them.
Electric Company will cut your service wire at the pole OR disconnect at your weatherhead, safe end it, and tie it to roof. Pulling the meter still leaves part of the physical panel hot (meter clips, wire in weather head, etc)
Then you can do your upgrades to the panel and weather head. The size of the weatherhead and wire inside of it needs to meet current NEC code (wire size/type per pipe size) and utility company construction requirements. Utility companies publish their panel installation requirements and contacts. Like this random one from Seattle: https://web8.seattle.gov/city-light-engineering-standards/Home/GetPDF?libId=RESC&searchForfileName=RESC 2022 EDITION FINAL.pdf
When you're done, get a electrical panel city/county/AHJ permit clearance. Like said should be automatically sent to Utility Company (but check).
Then the Utility Company will connect your service wire up (replace or upgrade if necessary) , re-energize your panel, put a new lock ring seal on your meter and all is good.
If the utility company sees a new panel without a lock ring seal it will ask for an inspection. If not provided, it will cut your power until you get an inspection.
If you want to shorten your down time, put your new panel one stud over from the old panel. Get inspection on new panel, the utility company will move the overhead service wire to new panel, leave, and it will be up to you to move circuits over to the new panel to energize each one with the safety of the main breaker and circuit breaker (probably removed) to protect you. -This doesn't work for UG feeds very well though.
