On 19/02/2020 12:06, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:08:48 +0000 (GMT), "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?

Separate metering perhaps, rather like E7 is separately metered, but
by location rather than time, say in the garage or wherever, talking
to the smart meter?


I thought current smart meters only recorded /time/ of use with no
facility to record /what/ consumed it. But there's a prior question as
to whether the public will accept a tax on - say - electricity for the
car that gets a nurse or teacher to work but not on electricity for a
heated swimming pool. Interesting times for fiscal wonks.


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