..

Instead of spending your time researching something actually useful
which might shed some light on what is actually going on (if anything
really is at all) you have chosen to ask stupid questions which are
clearly not on the proper wavelength to make any sense to someone
who actually understands electrical issues AND you are chasing after
something *YOU* can do which would support *YOUR* claim that
your electrical meter is not functioning correctly when there may
in fact be a procedure to follow which has already been defined by
the public utilities commission (or equivalent in your state) which
would almost always involve bringing in an uninterested third
party with the proper credentials and equipment to assess what
if anything is happening in this whole convoluted story...

It seems whenever you get some sound advise that would make
sense in the real world, you attack the contributor because the
person didn't respond with the specific answer you were looking
for in your especially preferred format... So you critique based
on newsgroup etiquette and posting format rather than the
supplied content -- keep doing that and you will be properly
labeled as a troll and written off as such...

~~ Evan
Hmmm,
BOTTOM LINEevery single dime.
Sounds like OP is Scrooge, will be only happy when he gets free power.
His building may be 100 years old containing industrial revolution era
stuffs.
Proper course of action would cost $$$ which is not in his book. My take
on this thread.