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<p><font face="Arial">Regarding the issue of a container being
defined as temporary or permanent by officialdom, how it's
wired for power can also dictate their decision. Disclaimer -
I'm only speaking from my personal experience twenty years ago
in southern California, so your locale might be different.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Our county regulations stated if you run an
overhead or underground line directly feeding a shed or other
outbuilding, this defined it as a permanent structure. I was
advised by a car collector friend who had several containers
that the way to circumvent this, to keep temporary status, was
to mount a standard RV power cable connector box to the
outside wall. From there run your feed wires inside to a small
subpanel with breaker(s), and wire as desired. Then you
simply plug an extension cord/other power source into this
connector box. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">If power is available close by from a house
or other meter, you're lucky, as Carl said. But if you need
the power company to install a line of poles, a transformer,
and a meter, probably way too costly. Alternately think about
a few solar panels, a few deep cycle batteries, inverter,
mount LED overhead lights, and install a receptacle or two for
cordless tool battery chargers. <br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><font face="Arial">I’m guessing that your question pertains to an outbuilding with no power. If so, you can run a line to a second breaker box, but it would have to come off of the house meter, connected on the house side of the meter so that you would be billed for what you use.
If you’re talking about a pole owned by the utility, you’re not supposed to mount anything on their pole.
Now if you’re talking about you own private pole, you can run a line and mount whatever you want to it, a song as you comply with all local ordinances.
I’ve seen meters and breaker boxes mounted on plywood sheets mounted between two posts on some dairy farms, but can’t say if this something allowed by local ordinance. But apparently it’s OK with the utility company since they hooked up to it.
You can use direct burial cable from the house, but it needs to be buried about three feet deep.
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