[RE-wrenches] permit denined since no grid connection

Richard Bogan rbogan at empire-solar.com
Fri Nov 14 15:19:35 PST 2008


Jeff,

 

I had a couple off-grid installations (newly constructed homes) where
the owners could not get their certificate of occupancy until the
off-grid system was installed and inspected. Once it passed they
officially could move in.

 

Richard

 

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[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Yago
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:14 PM
To: allan at positiveenergysolar.com; RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] permit denined since no grid connection

 


Thank goodness this was not my project, but I just received a call from
a couple that had purchased an old farm house in a rural part of the
state that was almost a mile from utility lines and never had power.
They are renovating the old farmhouse and applied for all permits from
county and have no problem with having inspections.  However, the
electrical permit was denied on the basis there was "no contineous
source of power and this would not be classified as a weekend type
cabin".   Yes, I guess its possible a local county can make up their own
rules, but I am not aware of any requirement in the NEC, and if there is
a specific rule, I would think all they would need to do is provide
information on their proposed generator/solar/battery/inverter system.

 

We have never had any problems like this in any other counties we have
systems, but before I advise them on how to proceed I wanted to make
sure that there were no specific code requirements other than the
electrical inspection.

 

Have you run into this before?

 

Thanks,

 

Jeff Yagoi

    


 

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