Energy companies in trouble - good

[Bellow]

I'm not saying unnoticeable, just the purpose can't be reliably identified.

An estate is supplied across 3 phases.
Several houses share each phase.
There will be a limited number per fuse at the substation, but still that fuse supplies several houses.

Any monitoring isn't going to be at a local substation. And upstream from there the supply is fed via HV to several sub stations.
I don't see where any monitoring of what goes on inside Number 9 is going to take place.

We have our own meters to record our individual usage.

Imagine some poor sod taking a shower (10Kw) at 3am before he walks to work.as milkman or postwoman and gets billed for the EV he hasn't got because then the dish washer kicked in, followed by the drying cycle of the washer.
Chargers don't always take 10 hours, or indeed apply a heavy load to supply, it depends on the state of discharge.

Anyway France will be needing their own leccy before all this, so we'll be buying treadmills so we can power the telly.
We will find a way to befriend our Vlad when we become more dependant on his Nord Stream. The idea of the US supplying our gas needs by tanker seems a bit far fetched to me.

Are you running a cannabis farm during the night? That's the only context that your post makes any sense in. But I have to concur, such an endeavour may be wrongly identified as EV charging and attract the tax you so obviously fear.

 

[190]

We were given a sort of dumb smart meter by a supplier years ago. By dumb I mean it could only provide instantaneous data and didn't transmit readings to the supplier. I used it until the batteries went flat and about the only useful thing I learnt was how hard it was to track down every single device consuming power. The thing that had me puzzled the longest was the was the garage door opener where the receiver consumes power 24/7 yet only receives signal for 1 second every day.

There is a very simple principle to reducing electricity bills and that's to worry first about the devices that consume power continuously. There are a surprising number of things headed by fridges and freezer as the biggest consumers. Replacing an old built in fridge and freezer knocked a couple of Kwh a day off our consumption and paid for themselves very quickly. Then there are daft things like a mains powered door bell which like the garage door opener consumed power continuously for a few seconds a weeks use. It works out to be cheaper to use batteries. Tip, if your mains powered door bell doesn't have a toroidal transformer then it's not efficient. Some people will have dozens of devices on permanent standby and it all adds up.

Another good tip is get rid of the kids. If I look at my 28 years of data on a graph the date the kids left home stands out as a step reduction in usage. When they had both gone electricity consumption had halved.

 

[m80]

Are you running a cannabis farm during the night? That's the only context that your post makes any sense in. But I have to concur, such an endeavour may be wrongly identified as EV charging and attract the tax you so obviously fear.

There is a lot of farming up here,
we got sheeps, alpacas and one or two cows.
I'm not familiar with these cannabis, I guess they are nocturnal creatures. Surely to make it profitable it would be a cannabi farm though.

But yes I do fear all tax. The tax farm in London is massively profitable. So profitable the farmers have no respect for the produce and squander it freely.

 

[st13phil]

I suspect the high currents for long durations might give the game away... And don't inverters in chargers feed back an identifiable ripple?

I believe it's simpler than that in that home EV chargers include a data connection via SIM card, so they report their power delivery directly.

 

[ChrisHGTV]

The UK is actually sat atop one of the biggest gas reserves on the planet, around a mile beneath our land mass. But our policy makers, egged on by an orchestrated fear campaign conducted in the media, decided to effectively outlaw fracking back in 2019.

If that hadn't happened, we would be in a similar position to the USA who are now enjoying an abundant supply of relatively clean energy without relying upon other nations. There's a lesson there...

This is true, we were involved in some of this. One day it may come back you never know. I bet Boris is looking at it wistfully...i know i would be.

We were given a sort of dumb smart meter by a supplier years ago. By dumb I mean it could only provide instantaneous data and didn't transmit readings to the supplier. I used it until the batteries went flat and about the only useful thing I learnt was how hard it was to track down every single device consuming power. The thing that had me puzzled the longest was the was the garage door opener where the receiver consumes power 24/7 yet only receives signal for 1 second every day.

There is a very simple principle to reducing electricity bills and that's to worry first about the devices that consume power continuously. There are a surprising number of things headed by fridges and freezer as the biggest consumers. Replacing an old built in fridge and freezer knocked a couple of Kwh a day off our consumption and paid for themselves very quickly. Then there are daft things like a mains powered door bell which like the garage door opener consumed power continuously for a few seconds a weeks use. It works out to be cheaper to use batteries. Tip, if your mains powered door bell doesn't have a toroidal transformer then it's not efficient. Some people will have dozens of devices on permanent standby and it all adds up.

Another good tip is get rid of the kids. If I look at my 28 years of data on a graph the date the kids left home stands out as a step reduction in usage. When they had both gone electricity consumption had halved.

With the kids i think you missed an opportunity. Couldn't you have put them in harness and got them to drive a turbine? (I don't have kids so maybe i'm thinking about this differently!)