The future of residential building electrical installations

mapj1:

The ADMD assumptions for network sizing,  for various types of load are also published by many DNOs, and are based on many years of building a network that works very well, and is not over designed.para 7.1 of this UKPN doc is typical other DNOs, especially those in areas with a  more rural population and a larger number of smaller substations each serving fewer properties may use slightly different assumptions when sizing transformers and the network to supply them, but not wildly so.

Many thanks for this document.


Brownout is an everyday word in the US as in numerous localities their local distribution networks struggle to supply enough current to meet user demands, but in the UK it seems that most people don't even know what a brownout is or even it is a real word.


The popular view is that everybody should reduce the amount of energy they use every year (climate change?!) but is the REAL problem the UK faces not the overall increase in kWh of electrical energy but potential current peaks following a transition from gas heating and petrol / diesel vehicles to electric heating and EV charging?


If the answer is yes then could it even result in a scenario where it's almost impossible for a house to suck more than 10A due to current throttling but the kWh allowance over a year is so large that the electricity is effectively free?

mapj1:

The ADMD assumptions for network sizing,  for various types of load are also published by many DNOs, and are based on many years of building a network that works very well, and is not over designed.para 7.1 of this UKPN doc is typical other DNOs, especially those in areas with a  more rural population and a larger number of smaller substations each serving fewer properties may use slightly different assumptions when sizing transformers and the network to supply them, but not wildly so.

Many thanks for this document.


Brownout is an everyday word in the US as in numerous localities their local distribution networks struggle to supply enough current to meet user demands, but in the UK it seems that most people don't even know what a brownout is or even it is a real word.


The popular view is that everybody should reduce the amount of energy they use every year (climate change?!) but is the REAL problem the UK faces not the overall increase in kWh of electrical energy but potential current peaks following a transition from gas heating and petrol / diesel vehicles to electric heating and EV charging?


If the answer is yes then could it even result in a scenario where it's almost impossible for a house to suck more than 10A due to current throttling but the kWh allowance over a year is so large that the electricity is effectively free?