2020 Club Accounts

That’s enough to power a town of 8000+ people. I wonder what it would be in a normal year plus when vehicles are mostly electric?

Perhaps CMC should set some energy reduction targets and members encouraged to do likewise?

Some sites were closed others were "sheltering" members , and even when closed certain equipment still needs power and EGH was not closed 

Sounds like a lot of energy wastage.

It's all those awning fan heaters. 

You can find the full report >here<, The energy report is page 7.Note typical electricity usage per year is circa 38 million Kwh.

peedee

30 million KW does not sound that excessive, if it includes absolutely everything including HQ and possibly a payment to those working from home for electricity use.

Just looking at pitches alone, if I have calculated correctly, the figure is:-

180 or so sites at say an average of 80 pitches equals 14400 pitches. If only 80% occupation, which is possibly conservative for last year that comes down to 11520. The sites were open for about a third of the year so that would equate to 120 nights. Therefore a total of 1382400 pitch nights. That equal about 22 kw hours a pitch.

On top of that there is electricity for umpteen other uses, toilet blocks, wardens, site offices, lighting etc.

I am not saying it could not be improved but possibly not as bad as it looks.

Also don’t forget a lot of water would have been heated with electric last year, rather than gas in the facilities blocks.

Ok, £38m is the energy bill for a town with a population in excess of 10m - that’s 3700 average kWh hours per home / 365 days = approx 10kWh per day per home. So, on a daily basis, each pitch is consuming (directly & indirectly) about twice as much electricity as a average uk home.

Well, at 12p per Kwh, it equates well to the circa £4 million that I recall the Club said it was costing p.a. There is no real evidence of what the Club is doing to minimise consumption.

peedee

You missed my point SB. Each pitch is not using 20kw. That figure is if all the 30 million Kw hours was divided by possible pitch nights. A lot will be used at HQ, toilet blocks, reception, wardens accommodation, lighting etc. I’m not sure how folk can use it indirectly, they don’t have any say in the matter. Plus as I mentioned last year a large proportion were using their own facilities, therefore a lot more water than normal would have been heated by electricity. I certainly know we did.

Correction - my previous post should have read population of 10k, not 10m. Whoops!