UK sites with metered electricity

I'm not sure what you're trying to say or point out. Your original post and my whole post reply is on page 9. I'll leave it there.

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BB I can also operate within this 4Kw limit but only running the fridge and occasional use of an 850w kettle. We cook solely on gas, everything else in my van, except water and space heating, runs off 12volts.. I have never actually checked what water heating and space heating would use if run on electric but  those that have come up with figures approaching 40Kw in the winter. A thermostatically controlled 2Kw heater run for 12 hours per day could easily use 24Kwh over 24 hours  I reckon 12Kw is a pretty conservative figure given what some LV owners could be using with all their domestic kettles and electrical cooking devices.

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Number of points. This 40Kw figure is indeed mind-boggling. That is practically as much as I use in a 3 bed detached house with all the electrical appliances that one usually finds therein.

CAMC can't profit from leccy? Maybe not but can they not make a standing charge for the use of the bollard plus a relevant tariff for consumption. That enables recouping the cost of metering.

I think it was Corners protesting that he didn't have Alde with a timer for heating. I haven't either but many of us have Truma and, whilst I haven't examined its capabilities to the full, I'm sure it has a timer function, presumably to turn stuff on at a set time.

Quick solution for CAMC to start to make a small difference. Ban electric heaters in awnings (often empty if posts on here are to be believed). Bit draconian to stop them using their own gas, however detrimental to the planet.

protesting CY? I'm not sure why you use that phrase but I'm not protesting anything just stating a fact that I don't have Alde but I do have a Truma blown air unit but it does not have any timer on it nor any means of connecting the Truma app. Later models do but not mine. I assume that is OK? Like I said if I had I would use it.

plus a relevant tariff for consumption I think that is illegal?

As I said I can stay very comfortably warm with my (Truma) unit set at 900W all day long.

Btw I think it is you who is protesting about not being able to gas, actually a good idea, isn't gas bad and electricity greener? Or is your motorhoming on gas more important than the planet? 

 

 

"CAMC can't profit from leccy? Maybe not but can they not make a standing charge for the use of the bollard plus a relevant tariff for consumption. That enables recouping the cost of metering."

That's crazy, CY, and probably in breach of an SSA rules. It's charging twice and akin to your local garage charging a fee for use of the pump on top of the cost of the diesel.😂😂

Some UK sites certainly charge 'with EHU' or 'without EHU'...I've seen as much as £7 difference in the tariff.

im guessing they are not 'reselling' electric, merely providing access to a 'service'?

if so, the club could do this without breaking rules or incurring huge cost?

The C&CC do on grass pitches.

You can certainly charge different pitch rates with or without electric hookup. You can't meter and make a per unit profit unless you are an approved supplier.

I made a facetious comment that anyone can become an electricity supplier because that's what happened with all the dodgy energy companies who bought a pre-packed licence for a few thousand quid!

Given most pitches have a bollard, enabling folks to rent a pitch without allowing them to hook-up would be a challenge.

Only one site we have stayed at in Spain was un-metered. The rest charged about double the cost (more in Germany). Safefill works out about 0.15 EU per unit. We were burning through a bottle in less than 7 days in cooler weather. 10kgs is 150 units over say 5 or 6 days so we were certainly fairly high usage..

Having said that, our bungalow uses 130 to 150 kWh a day when weather is cold so by heating the van and maybe even the awning as opposed to the house we are still saving the planet!!!!!

Exactly. Many commercial sites and the C&CC raise a charge for use of the hook up bollard. That’s quite legal and gives customers the choice of having lekky or not. However, the C&CC have specific non-EHU pitches on grass but you can’t use a with EHU pitch without paying the fee for use of the bollard.

That gets around the issue of satisfying those who don’t want EHU but doesn’t address the concerns of people who believe we should all pay for what we use via metering. 🤷🏻‍♂️