Email regarding price increases

Some people don’t seem to realise that while they are using electricity on a caravan site they won’t be using it at home. Cost difference might be very little.

I would assume that the club records, retains and analyses the electricity consumption by members throughout the year. If this is the case then applying the increased costs can be done easily. However if the club wishes to avoid being drawn into an ever increasing inflationary spiral a strong case can be made for metering. I am on a long stay in Spain and pay 13 Euros a night plus 48c per KW hour (about 40p). Many other Spanish sites include electricity but will charge you for "excess use"  I use about 25 units a week. I fail to see why I should be expected to subsidise the feckless.

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I visited Denmark in 2008 and in a number of sites every EHU point was metered. A smart card was used to obtain hot water and cooking gas in the kitchen area. Much fairer way in my opinion.

 

When we are away from home in the caravan our smart meter records  a 1.5 kWh average per day, when at home we tend to average 8 kWh per day. (excluding charging up the PHEV), We only caravan between late April and September, because we have installed 2 x 80 watt solar panels in series and a Victron MPPT controller for the past few years we have not switched on the Sargent battery charger, it is only the caravan fridge and occasionally the Alde heating/water system and our 500 watt Remoska, I would estimate on average  we use 2 to 3 kWh a day (at 30 pence a kWh 60 to 90 pence) when on site or 4 to 5 kWh maximum (at 30 pence a kWh £1.20 to £1.50) when it is cold.

At present he CMC charge £2.00 per day to charge up a PHEV and £8.00 a day for a full EV,

I can see these increase to £3.00 and £12.00  once the new site is up and running.

 

 

Maths do not stack up for me ET, currently i am paying average £2 per day to SSE for lecce and same for gas = £4 per day on average, a pitch on a club site would be average £25 per day a loss of £21?. Today thus far my solar panels have generated 12.273 Kw.

saw a headline in the Liverpool Echo today to say the government are drawing up plans to ban us driving on a sunday and reducing motorway speed to 24 mph, interesting times

sorry 64mph

It depends on who is still at home.  My disabled son lives with me, as does my adult daughter so I save very little money on fuel costs whilst I am away. I did expect a rise in the costs of site bookings to cover the extra fuel costs, so was not surprised by the information.  All things considered with what is going on in the world at the moment, I am just happy to be able to get away in my van now and again, even if it does cost me more in diesel and site costs.  I do sympathise with the site staff as they will most probably be subjected to moans and groans about it, even though it is something which they have no control over.  

64 would work well for us and make sense. I generally cruise at low 60's on Motorways. Going mid 50's doesn't seem to improve mpg any more, however cruising at the 70 limit significantly reduces it. Shame about the Sunday though, it is my favourite day, less HGV's.

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Reducing speeds increases fuel consumption.

My village has had a 20mph speed limit foisted upon us and I now pass through in third gear rather than fifth gear. Someone can work it out exactly if they want to, but obviously the engine now turns over more times than it did previously.  More turns is more fuel used, and more polution produced. 

I expect 64 mph on the motorway (assuming no roadworks making it less) will have same effect, and no driving on Sunday will just put retailers and hospitality out of business.