On 12/05/2016 15:01, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

It would, of course, be silly to restrict power on a kettle which is
near 100% efficient. And I'll eat my hat if the EU do bring in a upper
limit for them, on the grounds of efficiency.

Why legislate to limit the maximum, why not just mandate an A-F rating
and let people *choose* what they want?

No point really in specifying this on a kettle as they are so close to
100% efficient.


Just to give credit to the EU (for once - I don't usually) I think that
the real reason is not to increase efficiency of the kettle but to
reduce the peak load on the generation system when 10 million of them
are turned on at half time in the cup final. Ten million 2.4 kw kettles
is a lot lower peak demand than 10 million 3.0 kw kettles, so you don't
have to have the same peak capacity in the generating system (so their
beloved wind-mills might look more attractive).

Time wasted by 30 million people waiting longer every time they boil the
kettle day in day out cup final or no cup final is of course not counted
by the EU efficiency plonkers


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Chris B (News)