UK sites with metered electricity

Without meters and with looming huge rises in utility costs pitch prices are going to increase substantially. Personally I prefer to moderate my own usage than pay an all inclusive fee for "the blazing light brigade" 

I don't expect the club will ever go down the metered route but I'm sure long term CL owners will consider it.

 

"the blazing light brigade"

Gee, Brue, you say the nicest things about your fellow members 😧

I have sense of humour . 

Our new neighbours are a conundrum. Two very nice fully electric vehicles on drive.👍 And a gas fired patio heater for sitting under.....😬

I suppose many of us are similar TDA. 

I said earlier in the thread that the sites we used with meters "honed" our usage. It does concentrate the mind. 

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Hmm 🤔

"Personally, and yes shame on me no doubt, I am not bothered about how much is used and don't want to know. I just want to have a holiday."

This is what you posted.

PD posts....

"First of all not all Spanish sites do it, some have inclusive prices as well?

These are usually only applied to short stays where you pay more to pitch. Long stays are metered and the pitch price is much much cheaper."

on our winter site, stays of upto 31 days at set at x per night, inclusive of 4kwh per day....notice, this still needs to be metered to check one is within the allocation, even if it's 'included'...

stays beyond this are at a lower rate but all the electric is metered and charged, this year, at €0.40 per kWh.

so, the meters are used for all stays, it's just the pitch price and charging mechanism that's different...all super slick, using modern technology in umpteen languages.

again, could I see the Club being able to set up and administer something like this....?....

ianUK wrote...

"The average consumption of Electricity by a Member on an All Year Open site is 12kWh per pitch per night. Based on data over 5 years over 2 CL's. However, a large van, running mainly on electric, can easily consume 30-40kWh per day during winter months"

this is interesting as from my own experience on metered sites (albeit abroad) and TG's earlier posting, we have no trouble at all in operating inside the usual 'free' 4 kWh per day.

remember, this is in winter so some heating will be used...however, a different mindset will also be used😉

for folk to be using three times this amount (or even ten times!!) it simply beggars belief...

if this sort of usage is being replicated across thousands of vans on hundreds of CC sites then someone in 'accounts' must surely have been given the task of lowering this huge total.