A 100-amp service can't carry a modern heat pump, kitchen, and EV charger at the same time. From the older blocks around Pine Lakes to 1980s Socastee subdivisions and salt-worn meter bases off the Golden Mile, our licensed electricians replace the panel, pull the permit, and meet the inspector. The same crews that build and wire new homes across the Grand Strand take the service calls, dispatched from our Myrtle Beach shop.
Fogle & Sons Electric handles electrical panel upgrades in Myrtle Beach and across our Grand Strand service area — we're licensed (SC #CLM111551), we pull the permit with the City of Myrtle Beach or Horry County, and we meet the inspector on site. Most 100-to-200-amp upgrades run $2,400–$4,200 installed, and a standard panel swap is a single-day job. Start with the $89 diagnostic visit — credited back on any job of $275 or more — or ask about financing as low as $89/month. Call (843) 628-7289.
We offer flexible financing options for larger projects so you can get the work done now and pay over time.
📞 Ask About FinancingMost of Myrtle Beach went up from the 1980s on, and with the metro ranked the third fastest-growing in the country from 2023 to 2024, new panels keep going in. But the older in-town blocks near downtown and around Pine Lakes — where the golf club opened back in 1927 — still carry 100-amp services and aging panels, the 1980s and 90s subdivisions in Socastee are hitting the age where original equipment shows up on inspection reports, and everything near the ocean fights salt-air corrosion at the meter base. If the reason you're upgrading is an EV in the garage, we handle the charger installation in Myrtle Beach too.
Storm season is part of owning a home here — Hazel in 1954, Hugo in 1989, Matthew in 2016, then Florence in 2018 pushing the Waterway into Socastee homes. While the panel is open, whole-home surge protection is a smart add on the coast, and if a storm leaves your panel scorched or dead at 2 a.m., our 24/7 emergency electricians answer.
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Myrtle Beach anchors the 60-mile Grand Strand, and it anchors our service area too. We handle panel upgrades in Pine Lakes, the Golden Mile, Market Common, Grande Dunes, Myrtlewood and Legends — ZIPs 29572, 29575, 29577, 29579 and 29588 — plus the cities below. Tap a city for its local page.
We'll be straight with you: service calls on the Grand Strand are new for us — the electrical work isn't. Our crews already build and wire homes here, and this is the panel work we're equipped for.
Most 100-to-200-amp residential upgrades fall between $2,400 and $4,200 installed, depending on the meter base, mast condition, grounding, and whether the utility needs to disconnect. Salt-damaged meter bases or masts can add to that, and we price everything before we start. Our $89 diagnostic visit is credited back on any job of $275 or more.
It depends on the address. Inside city limits, the City of Myrtle Beach Construction Services Department (843-918-1111) issues the permit and staffs its own electrical inspector; in flood-mapped blocks, its staff also review floodplain requirements on the application. Outside city limits — Carolina Forest, Socastee, Forestbrook and much of the 29579 and 29588 ZIPs — the permit runs through Horry County Code Enforcement in Conway. We pull the permit in either jurisdiction and meet the inspector on site.
A standard panel swap is a single-day job with the power off for most of it. We set up the temporary disconnect with your utility beforehand — and the Grand Strand is genuinely split territory. Santee Cooper serves the beach side of Horry County directly, while Horry Electric Cooperative serves roughly 84,000 residential accounts in the unincorporated county, so a Myrtle Beach mailing address doesn't tell you which one you have. We confirm before we schedule.
It does. Everything near the ocean fights corrosion at the meter base and service entrance — rusted lugs, pitted bus bars, enclosures that no longer seal. If your home sits close to the beach and you're seeing rust on the panel face or meter can, that's exactly what the $89 diagnostic visit is for.
Yes — this is one of the most common panel calls we take. Insurers and home inspectors regularly flag Federal Pacific Stab-Lok and Zinsco panels and old fuse boxes, because those brands have well-documented histories of breakers failing to trip during overloads. We replace the panel with permit, grounding, bonding, and code-compliant labeling included, and you'll have the permit and inspection record your insurer asks for.
The $89 diagnostic visit is credited back on any job of $275 or more.