[Mark was here]

This is known as theft of services. It is one of the charges the government(s) use when people go skiing at a ski resort, and then ignore the boundaries, and ski in closed areas. Can be good for jail, and/or fines.

If you constructed your half of the xfmr on their easement, yep your stealing, if the equipment is on your property, the issue may not be so clear cut. You are in essence just receiving a signal they are broadcasting onto your property.

[DB]

That's been tried - in court - and to my knowledge the power companies have won every case.

[Issaquahking]

Mark,

I'm an electrician, I'll get a couple of buds and we'd have you for lunch in court. When you get ready to take on a utility company, you have to understand the golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules. So unless you can prove the power company somehow wronged you,they will use you for and example, and for the kind of action your talking about, it's theft, plain and simple.


How about we just turn off the power to your house, because you have a lawsuit against the power company? Maybe, if you lived off-grid (getting to be more common now-a-days) then I would have a whole different view, however, I think you have power lines coming to your house.