Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Power line through farm

How about requesting a transformer/tap and free electricity for the property in perpetuity?

No utility would take on a contract in perpetuity. What you would be proposing would be accepting this as an unmetered customer. Roll it into network losses. That's not going to happen.

It can certainly be metered and even have an upper limit on offtake per day or lifetime. I see no reason they wouldn't do it. Just costs have a transformer drop.

You don’t drop long distance transmission voltage down to household voltage. Technically feasible yes, cost effective no. Would be more likely for the utility to agree to pay all or a portion of the normally delivered electricity. But this is still unlikely. I just don’t see much incentive for utility to agree.

Statistics: Posted by LotsaGray — Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:14 pm — Replies 118 — Views 18869

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