Cost of EHU at CLs
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Can you post a link to Facebook thread please PD? Interested in reading.👍
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Thanks PD. I don’t have an FB account, so will try to do read only.
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Thanks. It is indeed private, so I won’t bother. Just interested in chat about CLs, CS, Etc...... They form the backbone of our touring, so like to catch up with thoughts of others.
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Returning to the subject:
One of our most frequently used 5 van sites offers the option of a 16Amp EHU, on top of a site fee of £9 per night.
The EHU provision, is offered on a take it or not basis, but only in £5 lots based on a "use it or forfeit it" arrangement where the £5 buys you a 29.4 Unit card. [ie a rate of £0.17p per kWh Unit]We were there this October past for 5 nights and left not totally using our £5s worth.
IMO, this is an equitable enough arrangement where the site owner can't be fleeced by the “use everything they can get” visitor, repeated experience of that being the very reason the owners introduced metering.
The meters display the units remaining allowing you to buy another £5s worth if you desire.3 -
Posted on 10/12/2019 13:38 by peedee
On a cost of £200 per pitch..
£200 per pitch multiplied by 200 sites at an average of 100 pitches per site.
Did I misunderstand what you wrote? I assume you meant it would cost £200 per pitch to install meters?
But as you said off topic
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Yes apologies, 164 in England Scotland and Wales.
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You could always be a real "nerd?"and count up the pitches on each site
Ps I would think if the club went down that route , it would by the use of "smart" cards for each hookup and as there are several on most Bollards it would envolve completely new ones, looking at what is available, smart card meter wise they are quite large
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Whilst I understand no one wants to pay more, me included, the notion of paying for what one uses makes sense to me, be it CL or club site. To my mind, there’s nothing like paying for what one uses to heighten awareness. Despite the costs involved, the fact is that energy usage is a hot topic , or should be.
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Pitch metering wouldn’t bother us. We have used holiday cottages where for years you paid for electricity via a meter. A lot rarer these days to find such an arrangement in a cottage, but the variation in power usage by touring outfits must be vast. We can happily and comfortably have a great holiday without a huge power draw in our older outfits, but conversations with some of our CL owning friends and acquaintances confirm just how much electricity some folks do require. No problem with that, but it does become a problem if we have to pay an across the board all in price because others have a much higher usage than us.
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Nor me. I can understand why some like the idea though. Last year at St Neots C&CC site it was hot. We chose a pitch with dappled shade. Across the way from us were an older couple in an eriba,. They were taking power from tow car. Presumably getting age discount on a grass pitch with no EHU. Not needed.
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not only that, "sur le Continent", where metered leccy is more common, gas can be purchased far more cheaply than at home (as AD suggests) which, again, helps negate high EHU costs. Many will also run fridge/freezers from gas, its that cheap.
We haven't yet come across a metered supply in France. Just as well as I think Mr M has been at work re the refillable gas, as he has with Diesel tax, At the current exchange rate, at the cheapest outlets, it's 76p a litre, a fair bit more expensive than here.
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not only that, "sur le Continent", where metered leccy is more common, gas can be purchased far more cheaply than at home (as AD suggests) which, again, helps negate high EHU costs. Many will also run fridge/freezers from gas, its that cheap.
never had this problem in Europe, our long stay site pitch will be approx €14 per night including 7kw of lecce, and 14c per kw if you go over, never gone over limit, only item we use on gas is outside BBQ and minimum cooking indoors , we carry 2xCalor light and always come home with gas, eat lots of fish, 10mins on BBQ to cook with lots of Spanish fresh salad stuff.
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According to a recent article on Money Saving Expert, as far as cost goes, it is more economical to turn off the heating when you are not at home, using a timer, than to leave it on at a lower temperature, so presumably the same applies to caravans and MHs.
Unfortunately not all van heating systems can be controlled via a timer.
Because we are not directly paying for what we use if a supply is unmetered, being cost conscious goes out of the window IMO.
At a CL we used in October, the owner apologised for the fact that he had had to increase the nightly fee from £12 last year to £15 this year due to the amount of electricity visitors were using.
Metering on sites would be fairer. Those with smaller, better insulated vans would pay less, those with refillable gas bottles could choose to use gas instead to keep costs down.
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