Cost of EHU at CLs

It's not a charity you know!

that is £4 million pounds PD! minuscule? It does't matter how much per year, it is extra that we will have to pay. You often say that the club is poor value (yet  you keep using the club) and too expensive now you want even higher prices? And for what?

And how will it control costs? Just nonsense, try and apply a bit of maths.

If the current cost is £x that what the club pays to the electricity company at present. If with meters it goes down to less than that £y then that is what the club has to pay to the electric company. the club will not make or save any money. It will simply pay whatever the cost of electric used with meters or not.

Who is being penalised anyway, no one if forced to come to a club site, they know the price and terms and accept it. You make it sounds as if staying at a club site is forced upon people and they then grumble at this 'penalty'. Their choice, as is yours to come to a club site.

Indeed, but there is no logical connection between higher prices and the club not being a charity. I'll pay the going rate but my point as you well know is that there is no point in putting prices up for no good reason, but  you know that and just trying to stir things up so really not worth engaging with you anymore if your going to do that sadly

I have repeatedly said you choose to pay whatever one wishes but PD and others often post they are too expensive how can they justify such a scheme?

I'll pay the going rate but my point as you well know is that there is no point in putting prices up for no good reason,

There is a good reason for some ..... and probably a number of motorhomers who do not need EHU much of, if not none, of the year. 

A bit like when I had to pay for EHU when using a CC pitch before I had fitted mains to my caravan. Some might even be encouraged to use a CC site who would not otherwise do so. Not sure how it might impact winter users.

Anyway, about the cost of EHU "on CLs" ......!  

Then there would be the annual cost of calibration of each meter which as with any comercially metered fuel is i think is a legal requirement, which if part of the EHU Bollard already a costly ann testing will be even more so

yes sorry, quite right.

I would suggest, as others have said, a winter price supplement? 

Simple answer is that it is a decision for each owner. It is then up to members to evaluate if they wish.

Was on a ccc club cl site on Anglesey .chap used 2 hook ups , one for van one for oil heater in awning , left it on all day ,couldnt understand why he was chargedtwice for electric !

but pitch fees go up almost annually anyway and one of the reasons given for this is normally the high cost of electricity.

IMO if you installed meters then a lot, not all, of people would use less electricity, the club could charge a fee for the EHU which could be a variable price so as to include some monies for original installation, maintenance of EHU etc, electricity would be charged as per usage and at a price laid down by the supplier of the electricity, this should going forward lead to a stabling of the pitch fee, or, once the cost of installation of the EHU's at a particular site have been recouped,  a decrease in pitch fee for anything related to the supply of electricity.

Not been on a club site for some while, but are the club maximising the use of solar panels, particularly on toilet blocks, and from what i remember some sites might even benefit from the installation of a small wind turbine,

I am sure some adventurous CL owners have considered this then they could charge whatever they liked for power generated by them.

Logic says, that if the club continues to increase prices then CL's will become more popular, and this will only lead to CL's becoming more expensive, afterall, who would have contemplated say 20 years ago that CL's in abundance would be providing EHU, toilet facilities, showers etc, satellite club sites spring to mind rather than a certified location.