When our neighbor Fred built his house in the 70's, the power company payed to bring power from the road to his house. Unfortunately, those days are long past. Originally, we hoped to bring our power in underground. However, the 900 foot driveway, combined with a very rocky path to get there, meant that would be prohibitively expensive--especially since the power company would require double power lines, in case one ever went bad. So, we settled for poles instead. As it turned out, only four power poles were required, and they are pretty well disguised.
But at least we were able run the lines underground from the last pole to the garage, where they hooked up the meter. Even with our eventual solar panels, I'm pretty sure this is the last time our meter will look like this:
After we paid CMP $1000, they hooked up the first pole to the road and installed the transformer on the last pole.
Then they flipped the proverbial switch, and we had power. The work crew wasted no time in making use of it. Like I said:
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