Let me understand what you are saying.
Are you saying that you have run a wire (what ever gauge - and what ever you want to call the use of this wire) from the meter can up to the neutral connection at the weather head where the POCO utility line connects to?
The conductor which you have attached to the Grounded Current Carrying Conductor at the service head serves no purpose. I strongly suggest you remove it. Historically the Grounding Electrode Conductor was run up to the Grounded Service Entry Conductor and connected to it immediately adjacent to the splice between it and the power utility's service drop in areas were the initial overhead power distribution wiring was funded through the US Rural Electrification Administration (REA). This was done in an attempt to keep lightning discharges outside of the building. For profit utilities developed the practice of requiring the Grounding Electrode Conductor to be connected to the neutral at the meter enclosure to guard against the high voltage of a fault which causes distribution voltage to appear on the medium voltage wiring between the utility transformer and the building served. In both cases these measures are only marginally effective but large organizations are very slow to change practice so both techniques are still used by some Electric Coops and some privately owned utilities. Unless someone has ordered you to install the additional conductor to the service head then you should remove it for 2 reasons. First it could conduct lightning discharge into the interior of the overhang through which you have run it. Second it will always carry some neutral current past your meter which could cause the utility to accuse you of power theft and have other consequences to complex to explain in a posting. Do not leave the conductor in the picture in place it can only lead to trouble!In pic the #4 bare runs up to weatherhead an is tied into the Neutral as its comes in before entering thru weatherhead.
The other end ends at meter base--it was just hanging when poco was there!It was pushed in behind meter non attatched.
Cant leave it hanging of coarse.
It will be terminated in meter box .
Left side.
They also said to add ground rod for meter to be grounded.
That's where the copper is from bottom of meter ,from Ground rod to neutral bar .
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