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The future of residential building electrical installations

Arran Cameron
This is a spin-off from the discussion What is the best way to wire ceiling lights.


What do you think is the future of residential building electrical installations in 20 to 30 years time? Will they in modern and modernised houses be significantly different from what they are today or will they most likely be barely changed from what they are today?


Will consumer demand be a driving force for change or will electricians only make changes from the status quo in order to comply with updated wiring regs?
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    At the moment, in the UK at least the continuous electrical energy is nuclear, and the variable is met by wind when available, and gas when it is not. Electricity is not our main energy consumption, but as and when transport  becomes more electrified it will be.

    So we either use excess power to generate gas by electrolytic processes, and store it to burn it for peak load, or more practically large coal burning stations will probably be replaced by large energy storage facilities, be that liquid air, chemical batteries, pressurized gas, seawater in lagoons, or other as yet unknown techniques.

    Once we can store enough for say 14 days of non-generation, we can have very fickle main generation, and still be  in a similar position as we are now with  oil and gas dependancy.

    I agree this will be significant change, and reduced consumption /limited loads/less transport and local manufacture may be part of it.
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    At the moment, in the UK at least the continuous electrical energy is nuclear, and the variable is met by wind when available, and gas when it is not. Electricity is not our main energy consumption, but as and when transport  becomes more electrified it will be.

    So we either use excess power to generate gas by electrolytic processes, and store it to burn it for peak load, or more practically large coal burning stations will probably be replaced by large energy storage facilities, be that liquid air, chemical batteries, pressurized gas, seawater in lagoons, or other as yet unknown techniques.

    Once we can store enough for say 14 days of non-generation, we can have very fickle main generation, and still be  in a similar position as we are now with  oil and gas dependancy.

    I agree this will be significant change, and reduced consumption /limited loads/less transport and local manufacture may be part of it.
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