Recent content by zachzinda

You are saying exactly what I am saying. The developer submits their plan with lot lines, roads and estimated load and the utility determines the placement and transformer sizing based on their needs. If the load shows that they need 50kva's and 350 services that is what they will get and pay...

The utility you work for must be a lot different the ones in the Northwest. Around here when a developer request service the need to provide the utility with a site plan including lot size, roads, house placement and estimated load. Otherwise the utility would just be guessing where to put the...

I love this logic. The power company owns the transformer but it feeds your house. So when the transformer fails or the cable faults ( and it will happen) you will be the one out of power. So ask yourself how much of your property do you want torn up and how long of an outage do you want...