SafeGuard Lighting Underground Wiring Requirements

For over 100 years, NYSEG has been working to ensure quality, highly efficient outdoor lighting. Our SafeGuard Lighting program provides: the dusk-to-dawn coverage needed
for homes and businesses in our service area to be visible at night; and a variety of lighting fixture options. Please click here to contact one of our representatives to request an appointment with a NYSEG representative to discuss any questions you may have about the underground wiring requirements or how our SafeGuard Lighting program might best meet your needs.

Lighting System Underground Wiring Requirements

• Installations must be done in accordance with NYSEG specifications and local codes
  and ordinances, including a UL inspection (NYSEG reserves the right to refuse
  service to any part of a developer/customer-owned facility that does not meet general
  NYSEG specifications).
• Developer and/or customer is responsible for:
  • Installing and maintaining the underground wiring, cable and conduit facilities dedicated to serving the underground lighting system - ensuring proper wiring
    size and type.
  • Applying sequential numbers to developer/customer-owned poles.
  • Providing NYSEG with an approved subdivision diagram which includes the location of each sequentially-numbered pole.
• Wiring Installation:
  • Wiring must be installed to within two (2) feet of the transformer or handhole,
    leaving a minimum of six (6) feet of wiring exposed with the leads appropriately marked (positive, negative and ground).
  • If developer/customer owned poles, wiring must be run up from the base of the pole, leaving a minimum of two (2) feet exposed at the top of the pole, with the leads appropriately marked (positive, negative and ground).
  • If NYSEG owned poles, please contact NYSEG prior to  installation to discuss wiring requirements.
• Energizing or de-energizing any part of the underground system will be NYSEG’s responsibility and performed only by NYSEG.

Two Common Subdivision Luminaries Offered By NYSEG

Colonial Post Top – Low mounting on 3” diameter fiberglass black pole.

>> High Pressure Sodium

Shoe Box – High mounting on bronze square aluminum pole.

>> High Pressure Sodium

150-watt	14,000 Lumens
250-watt	24,700 Lumens
400-watt	45,000 Lumens

>> Metal Halide                           

Overhead, SafeGuard Lighting alternatives are also available.