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Re: Domestic supply issues

"Is anyone thinking about the peak power demands on a domestic property these days?"

No. Electric cars are new, but everything else you mention has been standard for a long time. Sure, gas heating and hot water are more common, but electric is really quite common as well. There are plenty of old houses* with an electric immersion heater for water and a few electric heaters instead of central heating. Electric ovens have also been standard for a long time. As have toasters, fridges, freezers, TVs, computers, and so on. And of course, not too long ago it was normal to have a few kW of lighting in most houses. A 200W phone charger wouldn't even be noticed.

Electric cars could be a problem, but as things stand the grid as a whole couldn't cope with every house having a car to charge, so that's something that needs to be solved at a much higher level than individual domestic electrics.

* And when I say old, the flat I used to live in was built in the 1980s with no gas, as was the entire estate it was part of.

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