Actual residential load

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nizak

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Would it be fair to say that most residential service loads never see more than 75% of a calculated load for that dwelling?
 
I would guess that it's actually less. Maybe if the house was all electric it would creep up closer to 75%. Around where most everything is natural gas the actual load is probably very low when compared to the load calculation.
 
Tend to agree. LED lighting has helped a bit but EV chargers, heat pumps are increasing the load.
 
ptonsparky said:
Lower than 50% would be my WAG.
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I seem to keep running into new builds where the calculated load is between 150 and 170 or so and should I go with a larger service.

Around here the jump from a 200A to a 320/400 A service is a PITA because it has to go from a simple request to Utility Engineering which can bog things down for months.
 
Currently agree with @ptonsparky, but with all the "Electrification" being required around me and even more if the building code update gets passed as proposed, I think the actual loads will go up.
 
We’re all electric here no gas and homes never go past 100 amps on power company peak demand.
People just can’t run everything at once. Unless you got like 5 kids you just can’t.
I am in a senior town so maybe getting off the couch is the reason
 
AC\DC said:
We’re all electric here no gas and homes never go past 100 amps on power company peak demand.
People just can’t run everything at once. Unless you got like 5 kids you just can’t.
I am in a senior town so maybe getting off the couch is the reason
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Curious. Would you be including EVSE in that scenario?
 
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