Outdated panels, overloaded service, code-violation Federal Pacific and Zinsco gear, and 200 amp upgrades for homes that grew past their original electrical capacity.
Common situations that bring homeowners and businesses to Pelican State Electric LLC. If any of these sound familiar, the rest of the page is worth your time.
Both are documented to fail to trip under fault conditions, creating fire risk. Most insurance carriers either require replacement or charge a premium. Replacement is the correct fix.
A full panel limits every renovation, every EV charger install, every pool, every generator. Upgrade once, stop limiting yourself.
Usually a sign the panel is undersized or a circuit is shared by too many devices. Sometimes a subpanel solves it, sometimes a full panel upgrade is the right call.
Most home EV chargers want a dedicated 50 A or 60 A circuit. Older panels often cannot take that load on top of existing demand.
These loads commonly trigger a service upgrade. We size the new service to the calculated load with capacity for what comes next.
Time to be done with that.
Every job runs through the same defined process. You know what is happening, why it is happening, and what comes next.
We inventory the existing panel, photograph the meter base and weather-head, and run a calculated load against current and future use.
Sometimes a subpanel solves it. Sometimes a 200 amp service upgrade is the right answer. We tell you what we would do at our own house, not what costs the most.
Service upgrades require a parish permit and a utility disconnect/reconnect. We pull the permit and schedule the temporary service shutoff with Cleco or Entergy.
Power off for a few hours. New meter base, new panel, new ground rods, all conductors re-terminated and torqued, every circuit labeled with a typed directory.
Parish inspector signs off. Utility resets the meter. Power back on, panel labeled, everything documented.
Folder with permit, load calc, and panel schedule. We walk you through what each breaker controls.
The work included as standard scope. No add-ons, no surprise line items.
Pelican State Electric serves the Northshore, Southshore, Acadiana, and southwest Mississippi from a home base in Folsom, Louisiana. The service region reaches from McComb, Mississippi in the north to Lafayette, Louisiana in the west, including Covington, Mandeville, Madisonville, Slidell, Hammond, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Metairie, and Houma.
If your question is not below, call 985-590-2337 and we will answer it on the spot.
Most homeowners and businesses booking this service end up wanting one of these as well. Same crew, same standard.
Call Pelican State Electric LLC and tell us what you are building, fixing, or backing up. We will walk the job with you, plan it together, and give you a straight answer.
985-590-2337