Thank you very much Don, jghrist, BJC for your comments. The commercially available cables at our disposal have an outside diameter of 1.5" (with two cables filling about 32% of a 4 in duct) approximately, however, your observations have been heard and now we’re evaluating the use of 750kcmil...
We’re thinking in taking advantage of an already constructed underground raceway (duct bank) of roughly 1 km (0.625 miles), with 4” ducts build in polyvinyl chloride (PVC), for installing a new medium-voltage circuit (13.8kV) of 5 conductors per phase of 500kcmil in size with feeder...