Paradise has spent the last two decades turning farmland and pond-side lots into some of the newest subdivisions on the Avalon Peninsula, areas like Three Island Pond, Topsail Pond, Elizabeth Park and Evergreen Village did not exist as neighbourhoods a generation ago. The town is now the fourth largest municipality in Newfoundland and Labrador and has one of the youngest average populations anywhere in the province, which tells you a lot about who is buying and building here: young families, first-time homeowners, and builders trying to keep pace with demand.
New builds bring their own electrical questions
A new subdivision means a run of new homes going up close together, often on a tight construction schedule. For builders and homeowners in Paradise, the electrical questions are less about fixing old wiring and more about getting new installations right the first time: correctly sized services for homes that increasingly include heat pumps, electric vehicle charging and larger appliance loads than a comparable house built twenty years ago. A service that would have been standard for a 1990s bungalow is often undersized for what a new Paradise home actually needs once a heat pump and a car charger are both drawing from the same panel.
Electrical permits and inspections apply the same way here as anywhere else on the island, through the Canadian Electrical Code and your provincial electrical inspection authority. Builders working through several lots in the same subdivision benefit from getting that inspection process planned into the schedule up front, rather than discovering a deficiency after drywall is closed in.
A town that has already invested in EV infrastructure
Paradise was chosen as the site of the first charging station in the province's takeCHARGE electric vehicle network, a joint initiative of Newfoundland Power and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro. That is a signal of where the town's infrastructure priorities sit, and it lines up with what a lot of new homeowners are already asking for: a properly installed home charger rather than an extension cord run out to the driveway. As more households in Paradise's newer subdivisions add an electric vehicle, getting the charger circuit sized and installed correctly the first time avoids having to redo it when a second vehicle joins the household.
What different owners in Paradise should plan for
New homeowners and builders should treat the electrical rough-in as a chance to plan for the next fifteen years of the home's life, not just what is needed at move-in. That means sizing the panel for a heat pump and an EV charger even if neither is installed on day one. Our residential work covers exactly this kind of forward-looking rough-in for new construction.
Homeowners adding an EV charger to an existing Paradise home, whether it was built five years ago or twenty, should have the panel assessed before the charger goes in. EV charging installs done properly account for what else is on that circuit and what the panel has left to give.
Renovators taking on an older home in one of Paradise's original neighbourhoods, as opposed to the newer subdivisions, should expect a different starting point: older services that may need a full upgrade before a modern renovation can move forward safely. A design-build approach that brings the electrical scope in at the planning stage, rather than after the kitchen layout is finalized, tends to catch these issues before they become a change order.
Paradise's pace of growth is not going to plateau this year or next, which means the town's electrical infrastructure, and the homes built on top of it, will keep needing to catch up to what modern households actually draw.
Talk to Puffin Power
Puffin Power serves Paradise from its base in Conception Bay South, working with builders and homeowners on new construction, renovations and EV charging across the town's growing subdivisions. Reach out or call (709) 769-9713 to talk about your project.
Published 2026-09-23 · About 3 minute read