Baton Rouge whole house generator Gas meter hookup...

quote:

---

Does anyone know if they charge to put a larger meter in, or how long it takes to get them out?

---

I think it depends on your contract with Entergy in the jurisdiction. My parents live in EBR and they’ll swap the regulator and meter for free. But the permit takes forever and they have no incentive to hurry up and approve it so expect a month or two on that.

From my experience, the upstream regulator matters a lot more than the meter itself. I have the old original meter on my house (1987) but the upstream regulator is quite large so my 20kW Honeywell runs just fine with it and isn’t starved of fuel. Entergy may still insist on swapping the meter though.

True. Should’ve not mentioned Entergy specifically - whoever is the gas provider probably has that stipulation in the contract.

Entergy replaced ours with no charge, but that was about 10 years ago.

I have the same thing going on - I sent an email to Entergy and this was the response I received:

Thank you for reaching out to us here at Entergy. We apologize for the delayed response. We appreciate you giving us an email about installing a generator at that location. Unforntantly, these requests are not processed over email or handled by this department. If you would like to have a generator installed at the location, you will need to call our customer service center and speak with an agent in our Tech Department.

No charge. Their thought is that the larger meter means you become a larger customer. I just had mine done for same reason a few months ago.

My gas company made me hook it up before they upgraded the meter.