>The trouble was that there was a single line feeding the farm from about 6km away, so if that went down a single farmowner complained - the rate payers who wer

>The trouble was that there was a single line feeding the farm from about 6km away, so if that went down a single farmowner complained - the rate payers who were in a denser urban area always got priority, because there were 600+ people who shared a transformer. The urban rate payers also subsidize the rural ones, so it makes sense that they'd be front of the line.