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Listed below are the procedures, time and cost required for a business to obtain an electricity connection for a newly constructed building.

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  • Name of Utility: Acea
  • City: Rome

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Customer submits application, and await estimate

The application must include:
a. Application request form (available for downloading on Acea website)
b. certification of compliance with building normative (available for downloading on Acea website)
c. technical specification of the plant
d. electrical map of the plant
d. land registry extract of the site with the location of the plant
Deeds authenticated by notary acts are not requested

Agency: ACEA 		60 calendar days EUR 20.0
* 2 Customer receives external site inspection from utility

Technical conditions includes: a. Preliminary Minimal Technical Solution (STMG) – to be send within 40 working days starting from the date of the communication that Acea sends to the end-user demanding the payment of the costs associated to the preliminary technical analysis (STMG)
b. Detailed Minimal Technical Solution (STMD) – to be send within 40 working days starting from the acceptance of the STMG by the end-user

Once the end-user has accepted the pre-emption and paid the related costs, Acea provides the necessary authorizations and plans the activities (commit works to external contractor, provisioning materials, etc.). The total duration of 60 days taken as a average of the two.


Agency: ACEA 		11 calendar days EUR 12,517.9
3 Utility conducts external connection works

Utility obtains the necessary authorization for the road works from the competent local authority and carries out external connection works.

Agency: ACEA 		120 calendar days no charge
* 4 Customer purchases and installs secondary transformer on premises

From the connection point at the medium voltage distribution grid to the compartment for the feeding of the end-user in the secondary transformer station, including the measure apparatus, all the materials are provided and maintained by Acea. The end-user is responsible for the setting up of his own secondary transformer station (which has to provide the energy transformation from medium voltage to low voltage), the MV cable connection from Acea feeding station to the Client station, as well as the complete realization of the low voltage end-user plant. The cost of a secondary transformer station and of a MV cable connection depends on the technical solution of the installation. Generally the cost of a secondary transformer station is approximately 70.000 €.

Agency: Customer 		7 calendar days EUR 70,000.0
5 Utility installs meter and electricity starts flowing

The meter is installed by Acea once completed the connection of the new secondary trasformer station to the MV distribution grid and finished the works under the applicant responsibility. The electric power supply is assured within 5 working days from the conclusion of the connection works.

Agency: ACEA 		5 calendar days no charge
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.
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