man, you guys are getting out pretty lucky seems to me!..I have about $7400 worth of CoServe electricity work at my place!! They wanted over $10K to go underground the entire 400 ft, so instead they put in a pole about 200 ft in, ran underground to a transformer box, (100 ft away) and then went underground to my house!

As far as temporary power, they just hooked up the electrical contractors temp pole out by the road, then the electrical contractor made up a couple long 220V extension cords for the subs to run their tools off of.