400A resedential service

Believe many have established that going to 400A service isn't going to change your electric usage, consequently, your electric bill.

Just one caution running electrical service conduit. If, for any reason, you have to cross 2 service conduits at approximately perpendicular to and physically near each other, the meter may register additional power usage.

Can you explain this? A cited web page, or book, would be good.

You sound pretty confident about what *his* utility will do. They aren't all the same, you know.

The large electric utility that serves our area would ask for the projected demand increase. If none were forecast they would simply connect whatever was installed to the existing transformer which was already satisfactory for the existing load.

You can leave off the "less than or equal to 400A" part and still have a true statement. E.g., if you require 600A, you'll probably find 400A service much better than 200A, too. You'd find 600A service even better, of course. :-)

Many electric companies have an administrative or billing charges based on the size of the service. Putting in 400A service on a residence that uses less than

Could be that the well will consume more watts at 110v because of a long run from the meter to the pump resulting in a voltage drop and therefore the pump will be running less efficient than it could.

I agree however that a larger service panel will do nothing to solve this problem.

Pump is already 220v. I gave up on this idea when so many more knowledgeable pointed out how stupid I was.