Installing a Generator Ahead of Meters

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Coppersmith said:
P.S. Have you checked with the POCO to see if they have a solution for you. This can't be the first time this has come up. Perhaps they will install a meter on the output side of the generator and repay the owners for the power generated during their blackout to compensate for their individual meters being turned.
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Another good point. This was not a job that I was looking at but a situation that was posed by another contractor. I won't know the answers to any of the questions posed here for another month when we have our next meeting.
 
Pretty unlikely that POCO would allow it. Most don't allow any customer equipment wiring ahead of the meter because any unmetered connections would need to be behind a seal. Access would not be available to the customer without cutting the seals.
 
Another issue is that a transfer switch before a smart meter could interfere with a POCO's outage management system.
Also, I don't think they would like kWh discrepancies (either positive or negative) between customer meters and any upstream metering, especially as smart grid functionality eventually gets deployed. Granted, one generator is not going to make a lot of difference but it's probably not something the wants POCO to deal with.
 
We do have a location where a large generator is in place ahead several of our meters. The generator energizes our UG and goes throughout the facility.
Somewhere around 50 meters.

we have a meter set at the generator. We back the generated kWh from the collective bills.
 
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