Georgia Cost GuideHow much does a 200 amp service upgrade cost in Georgia?
Service upgrade to 200 amp in Georgia: typically $3,000 to $4,000+, the middle half of the figures posted by 5 Georgia electricians, collected September 2026.
A 200 amp service upgrade reaches past the panel, to the meter and the wires from the utility. Below is the range Georgia electricians post, and how overhead or buried wires change the work.
What a 200 amp service upgrade costs in Georgia
We checked 663 Georgia electrician websites.
200 amp service upgrade cost
$3,000 to $4,000+
Prices from 5 Georgia electricians
This is a typical range, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job. The dot marks the middle price, and a + means some businesses charge more.
What the job involves
A home's service is how power reaches it: the wires from the utility, the meter base, the main disconnect and the panel. A 200 amp service upgrade enlarges that whole entry so the house can draw more power than an older, smaller service allows.
That is wider than a panel upgrade, which can swap the panel and leave the service as it is, and wider than a panel replacement, which does the same job as the old panel. Because the service sets how much power the house can draw, an EV charger, a heat pump, an electric range or a hot tub are common reasons for it.
The power company handles its own side of the connection and may have rules about what the electrician can change, so the electrician typically coordinates with it.
What's usually included
- A meter base and service wire sized for the larger load
- A panel and main breaker rated for 200 amp service
- Grounding connections at the service, where they need updating
- A disconnect and reconnect of power arranged with the utility
What moves the price
- Overhead or underground wires
- Wires that come in overhead from a pole are simpler than a buried line, which may mean digging or extra work by the power company. Ask which you have.
- Service mast on the wall
- On an overhead service, the pipe that carries the wires up the wall may need to be replaced or braced for heavier wire, which adds parts and labor.
- Moving the meter
- A meter in a blocked or inconvenient spot can be moved during the upgrade. That adds work, and the power company may have to approve the new spot.
- Grounding at the service
- How much grounding work your house needs, from new clamps to new ground rods, changes the parts and labor.
- Meter far from the panel
- When the panel sits deep inside the house, away from the meter, the heavier service wire has to run farther between them, which adds wire and labor.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each electrician before you compare prices:
- Does this price include a new meter base and new service wire, or only a new panel?
- Is my service overhead or underground, and what does that change in the quote?
- Which work does the power company do, and is its charge in your price or separate?
- How did you decide that 200 amp is the right size for my house?
- What will you do about the grounding at the service?
- Who pulls the permit, and who schedules the power company's disconnect?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia electricians and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 663 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected September 2026.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check electrician prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| Service upgrade to 200 amp | 5 (1 price list, 4 cost guides) |
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