Anyone have a good contact at Consumers Energy?

[ReiKo]

First before anyone recommends me to get ahold of the local gas guy on here... He's been with me since day 1 on this...



I have to upgrade the gas meter at my house and consumers wants to charge me 1k to upgrade my meter... Nobody can answer my simple question... Why do you I have to pay for the upgrade when it's their equipment that can't meet my demands? It's not like they aren't going to make money off this deal from my usage...

 

[CMYZ28]

Tell them you'll just change it yourself and see what response you get..

 

[Beigg]

Start off by side barring the conversation to tell you kid to "hold meh beer" and proceed to ensure you'll save the expense of them coming out by doing it yourself.

 

[Chris Hansen]

I just built a pole barn and called consumers to have someone out to run power to it and they told me 6k! 6 fucking grand to run power to my barn...which is only a few hundred feet from my house. Idk wtf I'm gonna do I can't spend money like that on a power line.

 

[Anthony]

Run your own.

Unless you need like 480v

Any contractor can run power underground off your existing meter.
DTE gives contractors electric meters and cans for this purpose. Not sure about consumers. Did you ask for 480 from a pole?

Shit, did they need to set a fucking pole?? For that much. Damn

 

[Chris Hansen]

He said they need to set two poles and put in a transformer. Electric is the one thing that I'm still pretty new to. I have my 3 car garage (detached) and 45x135' horse barn both currently ran off my house. He said I can't run anything else off it, the new barn has to be separate and have its own power from the street.

 

[ReiKo]

He said they need to set two poles and put in a transformer. Electric is the one thing that I'm still pretty new to. I have my 3 car garage (detached) and 45x135' horse barn both currently ran off my house. He said I can't run anything else off it, the new barn has to be separate and have its own power from the street.

Can you run underground?

 

[Anthony]

He said they need to set two poles and put in a transformer. Electric is the one thing that I'm still pretty new to. I have my 3 car garage (detached) and 45x135' horse barn both currently ran off my house. He said I can't run anything else off it, the new barn has to be separate and have its own power from the street.

That's why, because of the 2 poles.

Demand underground

Will be cheaper

Poles and setting them are not cheap.

Play baller games, expect baller baller costs

 

[Chris Hansen]

I don't know if it can go underground. It would be complicated due to other existing outbuildings in the way

 

[wrath]

Are you upgrading the meter or the service? Ask them what they're really doing.

A 3/4" meter is standard. 1" is oversize, for say a heated pool or something similar that requires a pile of BTUs, and usually costs more plus a higher monthly charge for having the service. A 1" service can cause them to run new pipe to your house. This is especially true depending on what the pressure is on your street. It all depends on the demand you need because while the pressure at the street is really high, in your house it is really low but high volume.

 

[ReiKo]

Are you upgrading the meter or the service? Ask them what they're really doing.

A 3/4" meter is standard. 1" is oversize, for say a heated pool or something similar that requires a pile of BTUs, and usually costs more plus a higher monthly charge for having the service. A 1" service can cause them to run new pipe to your house. This is especially true depending on what the pressure is on your street. It all depends on the demand you need because while the pressure at the street is really high, in your house it is really low but high volume.

Years ago when I bought my house the old meter was on the driveway overhanging the driveway... Consumers and I went back and forth on what to do to fix it... We can up with the solution to move the meter on the other side of the house and came to an agreement on cost. When I had this done I told them I wanted the service upgrade for down the road(today) to be able to handle a meter upgrade for when my supply goes through the roof... From what I gathered the line isn't the issue...