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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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    Time to move on from tariffs.


    Aaron obviously doesn’t like my prediction that we will have a version of the French Tariff Bleu with agreed standing charges based on an agreed maximum demand for each property.


    Another inevitability is that electric car owners will have to start paying road tax to contribute to building and maintaining roads as a standing charge or by having a GPS tracker fitted to their car to record usage to pay as they go, otherwise as the use of petrol, diesel and LPG fuelled vehicles declines the costs of building and maintaining toads and bridges will have to fall onto general taxation or tolls will have to be reintroduced on the Severn Bridges and at other locations where there have never been tolls. The tolls may be called congestion charges, but they are effectively the same thing, having to pay to use a toad or bridge.


    Andy Betteridge
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    Time to move on from tariffs.


    Aaron obviously doesn’t like my prediction that we will have a version of the French Tariff Bleu with agreed standing charges based on an agreed maximum demand for each property.


    Another inevitability is that electric car owners will have to start paying road tax to contribute to building and maintaining roads as a standing charge or by having a GPS tracker fitted to their car to record usage to pay as they go, otherwise as the use of petrol, diesel and LPG fuelled vehicles declines the costs of building and maintaining toads and bridges will have to fall onto general taxation or tolls will have to be reintroduced on the Severn Bridges and at other locations where there have never been tolls. The tolls may be called congestion charges, but they are effectively the same thing, having to pay to use a toad or bridge.


    Andy Betteridge
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