[RE-wrenches] Consolidating meters

[Chris Mason]

It's the consumer's right to have one point of metering and distribute the
power to their loads. I would not ask the utility, I would tell them I was
rewiring and wanted to have only one metering point. It's stupid to pay for
all those meters. Most customers don't realize there is a cost to having
multiple meters and the problems it causes when it comes to self
consumption. We regularly consolidate customers who have one meter for each
guest cottage or main house, once they understand the advantages they
rewire and tell the utility to remove the redundant meters.

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 2:30 PM Andrew Truitt <atruitt at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Happy 4th Wrenches!  Has anyone ever been through the process of
> consolidating utility electric meters for a client?  We're talking to an
> HOA that has 15 meters throughout the community for common area loads
> (clubhouse, pool pump, lighting, fountain...) so they're paying a fixed
> monthly charge on each in addition to energy and demand charges.
> Consolidating to a single master meter (possibly with sub-metering) would
> likely lower their costs on its own, and (more importantly?) would improve
> the value proposition for a PV+ESS installation.  We're not sure if the
> community is served by a single or multiple transformers yet, but if it is
> just one then the process should be straightforward from a technical
> standpoint.  The interwebs tell me that some providers (seems like mostly
> co-ops) are open to this, but I can't find anything for this particular
> utility.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Andrew Truitt
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Chris Mason
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