TUK020 wrote:murraypaul wrote:odysseus2000 wrote:I believe all new houses are now built without a gas connection, relying instead on electrical heating coupled with good insulation.
Not in England they aren't.
400+ house development near me, all with gas central heating.
It gets worse that that.
That new housing estate being built will be provisioned with a substation sized to support a traditional electricity consumption pattern (average of 3kW per house?). The new transformer being put in won't have sufficient capacity to support significant adoption of heatpumps or electric vehicles. When significant adoption does occur, the whole thing will fall over and need major works to replace/reinforce the electricity supply.
Joined up regulation? Not.
Planned obsolescence as usual.
I was told that on some developments where residents are putting in solar panels that the cables feeding them can't handle the power and the utility wants many thousands to upgrade the cable. Perhaps they can argue the same for electric cars and make out like pirates which one might argue they are.
I was also told the other day that most universal smart meters use early 'g' (1g, 2g,...) and that as these are turned off all smart meters using these coming obsolescent services wil have to be replaced and converted to 5g or what ever. I have not been able to verify this but it seems a nice wheeze by the industry to justify higher prices for utility power if it is true.
Regards,