The future of residential building electrical installations

I believe that to achieve the levels of housebuilding being promised by the various political parties we will have to move towards more prefabrication in house building factories The electrics will be built in using semi skilled labour and connected up on site, probably using some specialised plug/socket system. Due to cost constraints there will no attention paid to  making the systems flexible so future modifications will be difficult. 


Some developments  will probably be printed on site using large 3D printers with a wiring loom mostly manufactured in a factory to be installed by semi skilled labour.


I forecast he demise of the ring as it will be too difficult to find adequately trained people to test and properly install. The electricians who have knowledge of ring circuits will be busy maintaining the existing housing stock. As MCBs, RCDs and RCBOs become even cheaper there will be more circuits , possibly one per outlet on power. 


Intelligent appliances will handle most of the load shedding required and as mentioned above the maximum capacity of the supply to each house will be limited. Not sure what the limitation will do for fast charging of electric cars but owning cars may be uneconomic by then and we will just hire a self driving car for each journey.


Electric car charging will be standard and houses may even have three phase supplies as standard with the higher power appliances using 430V to reduce the amount of copper in wiring. 


And finally the one prediction I know that will be accurate: I will be dead by the time any of the above becomes the norm ? (Sad but relieved face). 


And one final finally if zero carbon becomes the norm we will all be using shank's pony and there will be no electricity, welcome to Stone Age II. Unless of course someone reduces the rolling 20 year development timescale for fusion power ?

I believe that to achieve the levels of housebuilding being promised by the various political parties we will have to move towards more prefabrication in house building factories The electrics will be built in using semi skilled labour and connected up on site, probably using some specialised plug/socket system. Due to cost constraints there will no attention paid to  making the systems flexible so future modifications will be difficult. 


Some developments  will probably be printed on site using large 3D printers with a wiring loom mostly manufactured in a factory to be installed by semi skilled labour.


I forecast he demise of the ring as it will be too difficult to find adequately trained people to test and properly install. The electricians who have knowledge of ring circuits will be busy maintaining the existing housing stock. As MCBs, RCDs and RCBOs become even cheaper there will be more circuits , possibly one per outlet on power. 


Intelligent appliances will handle most of the load shedding required and as mentioned above the maximum capacity of the supply to each house will be limited. Not sure what the limitation will do for fast charging of electric cars but owning cars may be uneconomic by then and we will just hire a self driving car for each journey.


Electric car charging will be standard and houses may even have three phase supplies as standard with the higher power appliances using 430V to reduce the amount of copper in wiring. 


And finally the one prediction I know that will be accurate: I will be dead by the time any of the above becomes the norm ? (Sad but relieved face). 


And one final finally if zero carbon becomes the norm we will all be using shank's pony and there will be no electricity, welcome to Stone Age II. Unless of course someone reduces the rolling 20 year development timescale for fusion power ?