NJRVer wrote:
Your city's power company must be pretty backwards.
Go into any area of population and all you have to do is look up at the poles and see the lines that are run. In NJ the power companies keep up with development. Large power hog coming in, power company makes sure they can handle it. If not they will be stringing more cable on the poles. Not unusual to see 6 lines on one pole around here with all the development. This is just the regular wooden telephone pole on the side of the road, not the high tension towers.
Compare that to rural NC where I own property and there is one strand of wire on a telephone pole that is about 30% smaller than the poles here in NJ and the one wire on that pole looks like a piece of Romex.
Not going to run very many MegaChargers off that line.
It doesn't sound NJ can handle the current peak loads in the summer:
https://patch.com/new-jersey/berkeley-nj/central-regional-students-shelter-place-due-brownoutThis is not to pick on any one region - It happens everywhere and infrastructure really does not have that much reserve built up.