<VV> HELP!! (garage lighting info) (Permitting)

[Jim Davis]

Basically what my provider told me.  I am in the country on TVA 
supplied, Co-op wire (WKRECC).  The second meter at the same address 
must be a commercial installation.  The Co-op gets a break from the 
government for residential but not commercial electricity.  The 
commercial rate is about twice the residential rate for the first 5,000 
KW or about 20 cents per KW.   I buried a 100 amp service to the shop 
which is 300 feet from the house (copper, 02 main and 00 neutral).

  I have a neighbor is a line foreman for WKREEC.  He did the load 
center hookup at the house service for me one Saturday evening. The next 
week WKRECC came by and changed out my entrance service to the meter and 
my pad transformer (buried utilities).  No problems for 18 years.
Jim Davis

On 10/8/2012 5:17 PM, Jim wrote:
> When I did my 3200 square foot workshop, I did all of the electrical,
> water, gas, alarm, etc.  myself.  I called the electric
> company about installing a separate service and the rep told me it
> would be very expensive because of where they would
> have to bring the service from.  He told me to just pull the meter
> from the home service and run the workshop service off
> of the unused two lugs in the box.  So, that is what I did and I
> haven't had any problems at all.  The service runs 160 feet from
> the house to the workshop.
>
> No permits pulled for any of the services to the workshop.
>
> Jim V.