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A grounding bar is most often located in the breaker panel. This is where all your grounding conductors are landed. If the panel is your primary service panel, neutrals and grounds can both be landed there.

The NEC (US) requires that all service equipment be bonded together. This includes your meterbox. To most people bonding and grounding look alike but they serve different purposes. In most cases this bonding consists of a #6 AWG solid copper conductor connecting your service panel to your meterbox and also whatever you happen to be using as a grounding electrode, usually a water pipe and ground rod.

Consult a competent electrician for what is required in your area. I was on a job once where the city inspector expected this bonding conductor to be run with the service conductors inside the same conduit, which is what I would expect. But the power company for the same job required it to be run outside the conduit which is acceptable practice. Both were right, but we had to do it one way for the inspection and another way before power was supplied.

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