In article , NY wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article , Theo
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At one time, there were parking meters at every bay where anyone
could park. Not going to cost that much more to do the same with
charging points?

The issue is there isn't sufficient wiring in the street (lampposts
etc) to power many charging points. My suggestion is to use the nice
100A feed that's only a few metres away in the house.

Does the housing feed not also come down the street? And go under the
pavement into each house? So just as accessible as a street light one?

Yes but if you tap into the feed upstream of the house and meter, there
is no way to include the electricity usage in the house electricity
bill. You'd need to run a third wire from the downstream side of the
meter to the roadside charging point.

I presume street lights are billed to the local council according to
number of hours that the timer turns them on and the rated power of each
light (which varies with technology eg sodium versus LED) - unless each
lamp-post has its own meter.

working (as a student) with SESEB, the substations often provided a
separate street light supply with the time clock in the substation.

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