Electrical panel upgrade in Lake Oswego, OR

A service upgrade replaces the main panel, and often the entrance feeding it, with a higher-capacity service so the whole home has headroom. Where the main service is fine but a specific area needs power, whether a shop, an ADU, or a spa, a subpanel is often the smarter move. On a Lake Oswego home we run a proper load calculation and recommend whichever actually fits your plans, then permit and inspect the work.

If we find an aging or obsolete panel during the assessment, including a brand with a known safety history, we lay out your options rather than push a single answer.

Lake Oswego adds a wrinkle that smaller-lot cities do not: the property itself. Many neighborhoods around the lake and in the newer areas have underground utilities, and on a large or wooded lot the service can run a long way from the street or a pole to the house. When a service upgrade is on the table, that distance and whether the feed is overhead or buried both factor into the work, along with any panel relocation an addition or remodel has made sensible.

Lake Oswego's electricity comes from Portland General Electric, so upsizing a service means coordinating the meter disconnect and reconnect with PGE, and on a longer or underground run that scheduling matters more, not less. We run the load calculation, settle whether a main-service upgrade or a subpanel fits your plans, and handle the utility and the city inspection so a high-value home is not sitting without power any longer than the actual work takes.