Planning for Your Meters and Site Preparation is Phase Three of the Construction Project Process

Step 1
Before you install your wiring and piping, and before we run the exterior line, please review the gas and electric meter location requirements listed in this booklet.

• Make sure you inform BGE of any change from these initial agreements:
  • Meter set date
  • Meter set location
  • Equipment or load specifications
  • Delivery pressure
  • Voltage class
• If metering equipment is to be installed within 3 feet of an area subject to vehicular traffic (driveway, alley, roadway, garage, etc.), you will be required to provide protection for the equipment, typically a concrete-filled steel board or bollards, at your cost.Other requirements may apply.

Step 2
You install your interior electrical wiring and gas piping.

Note:For townhouse installations, additional requirements may exist.See Townhouse Meter Installation Guidelines.

Step 3
It's your responsibility to obtain all necessary jurisdictional inspections of all interior electrical wiring and gas piping to be connected to BGE meters.The county or city jurisdictional inspector will then release a certificate of approval to BGE.BGE cannot set any meters without a certificate of approval.

Step 4
Customer ducts and transformer pad must be installed as shown on your signed BGE Design plan and in accordance with BGE specifications.(Materials are available and may be purchased from BGE.)

Step 5
Please ensure you have complied with the following agreed-upon site preparation for our equipment:

• Site must be within six inches of final grade.
• Install and mark in 3' intervals: water, sewer, storm drain, and all other non-BGE utilities.
• Locate and clearly mark all private underground facilities on private property. Examples includes well water line, septic field, private lighting, underground sprinkler system, invisible fence wires, etc.
• Clear the site of all building materials, trees, stumps, and other obstructions along the route of the proposed BGE facilities.
• Locate and clearly mark proposed property/curb lines on your job site.
• Locate and clearly mark proposed transformer locations.
• Install transformer pads and conduits with pull strings.
• Install Load Cable/Gas Piping through building wall.