electric will be a huge cost as the cabin site is at least a quarter mile thru woods
When we built this place in '07 Boone Electric was giving something like 800' of buried electric per installed meter base.
With a meter on the house and one on the barn there was no up-front cost to bringing in the power.
Be worth a phone call to your co-op to find out if they do the same.
Totally agree with Augie about the phone call.
We do not have electricity (or a house) at our property. I enquired with our co-op about their rules. They would give us the first 500' for free if we had X amount of kW-h of usage per year. (Usage rate was average for a small home, not onerous at all.) The rest of the run would be on our nickel at a pretty high price, but copper prices are still outrageous, so I can't blame them.
If you really wanted to get creative, you might enquire about making a hookup to back-feed energy to the grid when your cabin has excess solar (or wind) generation. If you put in $10,000 for solar panels, but saved $10,000 on your grid connection, you would own a valuable asset at a net zero out-of-pocket cost.
Under "normal" conditions, it is hard to get a positive ROI in solar panel installations, but if you got some subsidies on the panels, and some consideration from the co-op on the long hook-up, maybe you come out ahead AND have stand-alone power at your cabin in times of grid disaster!
