"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 17:47:10 on Fri, 22 Jan
2021, Rod Speed remarked:
Roland Perry wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Roland Perry wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Are there any terraced streets fed by overhead cables with a 2kW per
house limit?

It's not a limit, it's the provision averaged over all the premises
on the street. My son lives on one.

I would guess a 2kW limit only applies to a tiny number of rural
houses.
Where a tractor is a more suitable method of transport.

No, that's the mistake you are making, it applies to a large number
of residential premises (as an average).

Don't believe it's a low as that.

It is.

Don't believe it.

Not only is it true,

It might have been true when most cooked with gas,
but that hasn't been the case for a long time now.

but it's been mentioned by the National Grid as one of the main
constraints on the rollout of electric cars.

By some fool that doesn't have a clue.

They've got all the data.

Mindful also that 1kWh costs an average of 16p in the UK, which if we
multiply up as 18hrs x 365 days, would be a thousand pounds, and very
few people have electricity bills that big.

Irrelevant to what the load is when cooking the evening dinner.

Not everyone is cooking their dinner at the same time

It doesn't vary that much. In spades with xmas dinner.

(or are even at home). Quite a lot will also be cooking with gas.

Not enough to matter anymore.

There's probably more cooking with gas now than there ever was.

Not as a percentage of the houses in the street there isnt.

And plenty use electric fan heaters and radiators too.

Very expensive compared to gas.

Still happens and plenty don't have gas available.

And once again, not on simultaneously in every house in the street.

Doesn't need to be to **** the stupid 2kw per house.