No need for an electrician. The easiest solution is simply to attach to an outside plug, or wire through to inside your house, attach a plug and plug in to a pre-existing socket.
If in doubt about the quality of the wall structure you are wanting to mount the awning on, you can use an epoxy resin product to secure the mountings in the wall. Click Here for resin kit.
Drop Arm Awning Fitting Instruction
Fitting into breeze block?
If in doubt about the quality of the wall structure you are wanting to mount the awning on, you can use an epoxy resin product to secure the mountings in the wall. Click Here for resin kit.
Thought that you might like to know that I drove 240 miles to fit this awning. I was well impressed with the quality and ease of fitting this awning. The friend of ours (who the awning was for) is over the moon with it.