On 19/02/2020 10:08, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:54:51 +0000, Chris Hogg wrote:

Apart from night storeage heating, what other useage would be
economical on an E7 tariff?

In the future, car charging !?

Except by then there'll be such a demand for electricity,
midnight to
seven AM, it'll no longer be 'economy'. Might even be more
expensive!

Its not "taxed" as yet for car use is it?..

Which is another "little problem" with going to electric cars. HMG
gets *a lot* of money from fuel duty and the VAT on it. Not only does
the electricty need to come from some where, so does that money.

Dunno. Don't see how it can be taxed at home over and above existing
electricity use, at least until smart meters become universal. On a
forecourt or local supermarket car park, it might be.

Not convinced a Smart Meter helps at all. They may have multiple
registers but as it's can only measure the whole supply how can it
know that x kW is going to the car and y kW to the house and/or
storeage heating?


Indeed. Similarly a smart meter can't tell the difference between
charging a car and charging a household battery pack used just to spread
the load and take advantage of a variable tariff.

Will be interesting to see if the new Transport Select Committee goes
ahead with their predecessors' planned inquiry this year into options to
replace the £40 billion from taxes on fuel and from VED - road pricing,
congestion zones, workplace parking charges etc.



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