The future of residential building electrical installations

Sparkingchip:

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.

Well I am somewhat persuaded by the argument. So instead of returning home, putting a load of laundry in the washing machine, another in the drier, starting the dinner, and turning on the dishwasher (if you want to eat off clean plates today), and to cap it all, having a quick shower; the use of high-consumption goods will have to be staggered.


I can also see the force of the argument that if you want a larger share of the DNO's network, you should have to pay for it.


The counter argument is that we seem to get by on our couple of amps per house.

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.

I couldn't agree more! It does seem to be a reasonable public policy to impose low taxes on EVs because for most people, the extra capital charge makes them uneconomical and without the early adopters, little or no progress would be made.


The problem comes when you have to squeeze a couple of EVs within your household's cap.

Sparkingchip:

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.

Well I am somewhat persuaded by the argument. So instead of returning home, putting a load of laundry in the washing machine, another in the drier, starting the dinner, and turning on the dishwasher (if you want to eat off clean plates today), and to cap it all, having a quick shower; the use of high-consumption goods will have to be staggered.


I can also see the force of the argument that if you want a larger share of the DNO's network, you should have to pay for it.


The counter argument is that we seem to get by on our couple of amps per house.

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.

I couldn't agree more! It does seem to be a reasonable public policy to impose low taxes on EVs because for most people, the extra capital charge makes them uneconomical and without the early adopters, little or no progress would be made.


The problem comes when you have to squeeze a couple of EVs within your household's cap.