Thank to you all for the suggestions.
Here in the States I have a 200A service but use a small part of the service. Even here, if you know someone living off the grid, you will be surprised by how little electricity is sufficient to get by. European appliances typically use less then the...
buzzp and wareagle,
In my case it is first delivery (of more single phase current) and then cost of the service.
The utility wires are underground; for a non electric home, a service of nearly 10 KW is not a trivial amount of power.
You should also know that: up front, directly following the...
I have a house in Portugal with 3 phase el service rated 15.5 A /phase. This service can be increased up to 21 A/phase at a cost.
The house has a single phase air conditioner that draws 14 A at 220 V (25,000 BTU). This single phase load is a problem that can be minimized by redistributes the 1...