On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:11:49 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:23:22 -0500, Markem
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:52:28 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 8/19/2013 12:55 PM, Bill wrote:

A relative told me there
were 3 hots at the pole (but he has a factory background, where 3-phase
in the norm).

The power transmission system, that feeds your transformer on the pole
outside your house, is indeed 3 phase, on the _input_ side of the
transformer, as I clearly stated earlier.

Not every where in the United States, the co-op to my house and over
the entire system is single phase, they have only single phase
generators at the power house. But I would bet that my cost per kilo
watt is cheaper that most.

Extremely rare, in the whole north american scheme of things - and
that means you are independent of the national grid.

It is a rural co-op, they're connected to the grid throygh the sub
stations. But they do not provide 3 phase power on the system to the
customers at all. It is a matter of upgrading costing more than the
"customer owners" could pay, and they do not have any large industrail
customers. So my rates are lower than than an Ameren customers in the
local area by quite a bit.