The real story is a contest between a peaceful commercial venture that is respectful of property rights and stands ready to massively upgrade the energy infrastructures and bring new prosperity vs. a coalition of interest groups that have no skin in this game but have made protesting a way of life.
If you did it yourself about a dollar, if it is a standard outlet. Only do it if you have some electrical experience. If you were to call in an electrain to change it about $60 a hour depending on where you live. Source(s): Electrain, 4 years experience.
1 A typical 20V outlet should be less than $200, while a 240V outlet can cost $350 to $700. 2  According to Familyhandyman.com, the cost of a do-it-yourself project of adding an electrical outlet is less than $20. Depending on the complexity of the job and where the outlet has to be installed, the average cost to add an electrical outlet will be between $100 and $700.