Requirements for AMI Meter

acidrain

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This post is more directed towards those who are feeding back to the grid and have an AMI meter installed.

Some back and forth with the city but finally they are responding, one of which is the need for a boundary box for the AMI meter (which I knew was needed anyways). As the house is fed via overhead lines, the city needs to do underground works outside to run the power to the box externally.

My question is, will the power connection on the property also need to be undergrounded (from the DB to the outside box). Logic tells me yes, but just want to confirm. For those that had to convert from overhead to underground, +- what was the electrical costs for the internal undergrounding?

With all these new costs, I would need to re-stablish feasability.

Thanks,
 
So just feedback on this. CoCT quoted R21k for AMI meter and to underground our current overhead line.

This excludes property side which will need the same run so likely adding another 15k bringing it to a total of R36k.

Crunching some numbers on average feedback, it will take roughly 7 years to pay this back which does not make it very feasible then.

Would rather get another 2 more batteries to inch closer to fully off grid.
 
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