The legal basis for the capital contribution imposed by T&TEC arose from the T&TEC Act, Chapter 54:70 which states that clients had to pay for new electricity connections if they were more than 60 feet away from the existing grid. T&TEC presented individual quotes to customers who had no basis lo contest them should they want to. A customer requesting a new connection of 140 kVA for a warehouse located 150 meters away from the existing network had to pay more than $8,000 in Port of Spain in 2009.