Two Meters One Building

[Ccarney7809]

Inspector told me I was fine having two meters on the same building. One was existing that serviced the home, fed overhead to local utilities pole about 75ft away. The new meter is a combo with breaker spaces and is installed next to old meter being fed underground to local utilities pole(same pole the old meter is being fed from). Inspection passed and utilities showed up saying they can’t hook it up because you can’t have two meters on a single building? Being fed from the same service drop? Is this correct? What codes prevent me from doing this only code i have found is 230.40. But the underground goes right to their pole and I’ve seen this done many other times.

 

[Ccarney7809]

The old meter would be strictly for the home the second meter is for all exterior equipment only nothing to do with the interior of the home or any connected utilities. It will feed a shed, a sauna, a pool and anything else exterior detached from the home.

 

[don_resqcapt19]

It doesn't matter what the code says. This is under the purview of the utility.

 

[Buck Parrish]

The old meter would be strictly for the home the second meter is for all exterior equipment only nothing to do with the interior of the home or any connected utilities. It will feed a shed, a sauna, a pool and anything else exterior detached from the home.

You're going to need to call the utilities and speak to the poco engineer.

 

[hillbilly1]

When I wired my house, I was going to do a farm service, meter and service on a pole centrally located, then branching out to the house and several outbuildings. The local poco wouldn’t let me do it, they said the meter had to be on the house. They gave the excuse that the TVA, who they bought power from, wouldn’t let them set a meter. Total BS, but now I have a wall of panels outside that feeds everything.

 

[jaggedben]

It doesn't matter what the code says. This is under the purview of the utility.

While this is true, a utility limiting a building to one meter is also the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. (Duplexes? Apartment buildings? Hello?)

It sounds to me like the real issue here is that the proper type of application for additional wasn't submitted to the utility.

 

[don_resqcapt19]

While this is true, a utility limiting a building to one meter is also the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. (Duplexes? Apartment buildings? Hello?)

It sounds to me like the real issue here is that the proper type of application for additional wasn't submitted to the utility.

Those are multiple occupancies...This is a single occupancy with one meter for inside the hose and the second for outside the house.