RV Park Power Metering for WI-FI

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first1here

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I design WIFI for RV parks and I ran across a park that wants us to put our equipment on a meter so they can charge us.

I know each site has individual meters where each RV pays the park for power used.

So the question is, do RV parks typically have central power metering where they pay the power provider or does the park have to pay on each meter located in the park?
 
Metering in RV park

Metering in RV park

Meters are optional in RV parks and standard in mobile home parks. Most RV parks do not meter the individual spaces because the administrative overhead of reading the meters is burdensome. In some states there are many many rules that prohibit electric resale so the RV park may violate State PUC regulations to meter and bill.

Most electric meters could not measure accurately the power drawn by a WiFi repeater. The cost of the meter, the cost to read it and render a bill, and the likely total inaccuracies, make metering such small loads very problematic.
 
once they see how minimal your energy use is, and the cost to meter it, I think the payback period for metering it would be pretty long.

since your equipment is all fixed and operates 24/7, cant you just plug it all in, meter its current consumption, and calculate out the monthly kwh?
 
metering in rv park

metering in rv park

Completely agree that our equipment draws little power. We do have some sites that are metered and our bill is around 2 bucks a month!!!

Just trying to determine if the RV parks themselves are centrally metered?
 
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