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Service Upgrade — Langley

100A to 200A Service Upgrade in Langley, BC

100A to 200A upgrades for Langley homes adding EV chargers, heat pumps, or additions. BC Hydro disconnect coordinated, one-day install, inspected and signed off.

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If your Langley home was built before about 1995, there's a good chance it's on 100A service — fine for a 1980s house with gas heat and a gas range, but increasingly tight for modern life. Add an EV charger, a heat pump, or an addition with a second bathroom, and you push past what 100A can supply under BC Electrical Code Section 8. The fix is a 100A to 200A service upgrade: new meter base, new service entrance, new 200A main panel, and BC Hydro coordination for the disconnect and reconnect.

The typical Langley service upgrade is a single full day on site, with power out for 4 to 6 hours during the BC Hydro disconnect window. We coordinate the BC Hydro appointment for you — they tend to schedule 1 to 2 weeks out from when we file the application. We pre-stage everything we can before the disconnect: new panel mounted, new conduit run, new circuits ready to terminate. When BC Hydro pulls the meter, we work fast and reconnect in the same day.

Common Langley scenarios: Brookswood and Murrayville homes built in the 1970s adding an EV charger; Walnut Grove 1990s builds adding a heat pump and electric range; Aldergrove rural properties adding a detached shop or accessory dwelling. Each has different complexities. Rural Langley properties sometimes need an overhead-to-underground service rebuild, which is a separate scope.

Free written quote within 24 hours. Total timeline from quote to live 200A service: typically 2 to 3 weeks, with most of that being BC Hydro scheduling.

What is Included

Every Langley electrical service upgrade includes

  • Load calculation to confirm 200A is the right size for your plans
  • New 200A meter base and service entrance
  • New 200A main panel (Eaton, Square D, or Siemens)
  • BC Hydro disconnect and reconnect coordination
  • Re-termination of all existing circuits into the new panel
  • Bonding and grounding to current BC Electrical Code
  • AFCI/GFCI breaker upgrades where code requires
  • Technical Safety BC permit pulled, inspection coordinated
Transparent Pricing

$3,800 to $6,500 typical

These are typical price ranges — exact pricing varies depending on your specific situation, and every Langley service upgrade gets a written line-item quote before work starts. Standard urban Langley homes (Walnut Grove, Willoughby, Murrayville) with the meter staying in place land at the low end. Rural Langley properties (Aldergrove, Salmon River) requiring an overhead-to-underground service rebuild or substantial trenching to a detached structure land at the high end. Bundling with a panel upgrade is usually cheaper than doing them separately.

Permits in Langley

The Langley permit process

Service upgrades require a Technical Safety BC electrical permit and BC Hydro coordination for the disconnect/reconnect appointment. We pull the TSBC permit, file the BC Hydro work request, and coordinate both. If the meter base is being relocated (a side-wall to front-wall move, for example), Langley Township's building department also issues a building permit — we coordinate that too.

Common Questions

Langley electrical service upgrade FAQs

  • You don't always. A 32A EV charger can usually run on 100A service if your existing loads are modest. The trigger for 200A is when total continuous load (EV charger plus electric range plus electric dryer plus heat pump) exceeds about 80% of your 100A capacity under BC Electrical Code Section 8. Many older Langley homes already run close to that limit, so adding a 40A or 48A EV charger tips them over. We do the load calculation before we quote either job.
  • BC Hydro arrives in a scheduled window (usually a 4-hour window in the morning), pulls the meter, and confirms the service is dead. We then have 4 to 6 hours to swap the meter base, install the new panel, and re-terminate all existing circuits. BC Hydro returns to reconnect, swap the meter, and energize the service. Power is back on the same day in most cases. You don't need to be home — we just need access to the panel and the meter.
  • No — only the 4 to 6 hour window during the BC Hydro disconnect. We schedule the disconnect for mid-morning so the outage is over by mid-afternoon. Fridges and freezers will be fine over a 6-hour outage if kept closed. We give you the BC Hydro window time once it's confirmed.
  • Sometimes. If your existing meter base is rated for 200A (some 1990s+ installs are) and is in good physical condition, we can reuse it. Most older Langley homes have 100A-rated meter bases that need replacement for the upgrade. The cost difference is $400 to $900 depending on the new base. We confirm during the site visit or from your photos.
  • Rural Langley service upgrades sometimes involve more than just a meter and panel swap. If you have an overhead BC Hydro feed (still common on Aldergrove acreage), upgrading to 200A sometimes requires a heavier mast and weatherhead, and occasionally a switch to underground service. Those jobs run more like $6,500 to $11,000 and require additional BC Hydro engineering review. We quote the full scope after a site visit on rural properties.
  • Usually 1 to 2 weeks from when we file the application. Some seasonal pressure (spring and fall) can stretch this to 3 weeks. We file the application as soon as you approve the quote, which puts you in the queue right away.
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