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tshea

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Interesting dilemma, waiting on POCO reply.

Association owns a large boat dock with >100 slips. They sold a block of slips to another party. Association told the buyer to get their own power and water. Buyer hired "pick up truck electric" to do work. "PUTE" wired in a sub-meter (not sure what he did) to measure buyers slips.
Association does not want anyone sub-metering their power.
I have a call into hte POCO to determine if it's possible to run another service to the slips. To do so, the feeders will be attached to the associations dock, but also keep in mind the buyer has access on the same dock.
If POCO allows, meter will need to be on land/shore.
Oh yeah, attornies are involved.

No questions, just a point of information. Will post when POCO answers.

"I've been doing so much with so little for so long, I can now do anything with nothing all day."
 
ericsherman37 said:
So if I understand correctly, the association told the buyer to get their own power, not simply sub-meter their slips? Why not?
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Correct. Sub metering is not in compliance with the Public Service Commission and basically you can't resell (association) electricity. The other item is the accuracy of the sub-meter. How often is it tested, etc.

This is a huge can of worms.
 
tshea said:
Correct. Sub metering is not in compliance with the Public Service Commission and basically you can't resell (association) electricity. The other item is the accuracy of the sub-meter. How often is it tested, etc.

This is a huge can of worms.
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Hmm. Makes sense. I'm reading 230.2 and not seeing an exception for that situation, but I imagine that if POCO wanted to allow an additional service on the same structure then they could. Interesting :grin:

EDIT: Actually I'm looking at 230.2(D) and maybe that could apply for allowing an additional service. I guess it all boils down to POCO's stubborness :p
 
POCO responded today. The short answer is NO.
The reason: more than one service on a structure, no can do! Suggested, going to a multi-meter pak.
(POCO wants to be able to shut off service quickly in the event of an emergency. This means one disconnect at one location or multiple disconnects at one location. Prefer a main then multi meters, with tenant breakers.)
Either way "buyer" would be the guy footing the bill. Since this is a "hostile" situation, I don't think anything will happen until the attorneys agree on something.
 
I do not understand why you need another service???

The NEC permits more than one set of service entrance conductors supplied from one service.

Rework the service so you can set up another set of service entrance conductors and separate meter for the addition set of slips.
 
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