Is EHU metering a good investment?

OH was just saying something along the same lines as your first paragraph a  few months back when the media went mad with money saving tips such as....

Do not heat rooms you are not using

Turn off lights when you leave a room

Keep doors closed

Only wash full loads in the DW and WM

Using a tumble dryer costs more than drying outside

Only boil as much water as you need

Do not leave taps running while washing up

Turn down your CH thermostat

etc etc

This is all basic stuff, and as far as we are concerned, just what we normally do anyway.

Same here K. Newspapers are full of sensationalist reports of “my heating bill quadrupled overnight” . Then you realise those involved had never checked their monthly DD’s, so didn’t have a clue. As I say, for some it’s just normality, for others, normal has been one of profligacy and dare I say ignorance at times, if they could afford to pay.
Our (much younger) lovely new neighbours shot round to us last Winter when we had a long power cut, to see if we were ok. Bless them, they found us toasting away in front of stove, kettle on top, iPads fully charged via battery packs, happy as Larry! I did make them a cuppa😁

Having been used to what we consider a normal way of operating, our daughter was amazed at the way her in-laws did things at home.

They apparently did not use, despite actually having them, timers or thermostats on their heating, instead they just turned it full on when they woke up and shivered  till it warmed up, then when it got too hot they opened a door or a window.   I think they may have stopped doing that now!

Turning off lights and  closing doors  was also not normal, so she is forever turning off lights and closing doors her husband has left open.   Now that Callum is big enough to reach the light switches, he gets sent to do it.  He is getting good at closing doors too, even little Nathan (22 months) can close doors!

It is sobering when speaking to those of us who grew up with rationing and make do and mend as to how far it seems younger generations view cost savings that is completely alien it seems when trying to say how it is quite easy if thought about " but how much does it really save by just closing a door or switching. lights off" is the reply so often heard by those who change their phones because I have been told I can?

"every penny of which is ploughed back into our not for profit club for the benefit of the members" 

We have just returned today from 10 weeks overseas.  We have 7France, Spain and Portugal.

No sites in France were metered almost all of them were 6amp.

Spain 7 sites all 6amps, 2 of which were metered. The allowance was 4 KwH after that you pay. I paid a couple of euros on the site we stayed at for 9 nights but the site we stayed on for 7 nights no charge. Given that it was mid to 20s in temp we didn't have heating or hot water on. I did use a hairdryer and hair tongs, the fridge was on electric and I cooked using a Remoska. 

Portugal, no meters, 6amps.

We also stayed on a number of Aires with ehu, we were given the option. Some would come and connect you to the box while others it was on trust (they did walk the site a couple of times a day) they were not big sites.

Site prices varied from 14 euro (Portugal) to 22 euro (Spain) and Aires from 10 euro to 18 euro. The dearest of these was in Spain. The metered sites were 18 euro and 20 euro.

At home we use bulk LPG for heating, hot water and cooking. We have 10 solar panels and in a good summer we use around 6 to 8 KwH a day, winter it's more like 10 to 12 KwH.

I don't mind using meters where there is sufficient sun to use the solar panel on the van but in winter in the UK it might be a tad expensive. However I would prefer that than an inflated price across the board as we are not high users. I'm happy to pay for what I use. 

"I don't mind using meters where there is sufficient sun to use the solar panel on the van but in winter in the UK it might be a tad expensive. However I would prefer that than an inflated price across the board as we are not high users. I'm happy to pay for what I use. "

TG, sums it up nicely.

with power prices rising fast and, inevitably, dragging the inclusive prices with it, summertime (peak) pitches are going to be mightily expensive💷 if, for those with solar or are very low users, there isn't an option to either remain disconnected or to be metered.

looks like more THS sites during the UK summer👍

Knocking a fiver off would still mean that a site would be, more often than not, north of £25. For a non EHU pitch, even with a toilet block, I would consider £25 the most I would be prepared to pay unless there was something quite exceptional about the location. The majority of CAMC sites are a bit in the back of beyond.