Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

Didn't you recently have a terrible poverty? About a decade ago?

If the final substation compensates for the voltage change, obviously you would achieve nothing, just stop and think....

Don't need to stop & think - it works - - afaik it's used by most utilities in North America. It's tested once or twice a year. John T.

It only works because some substations don't compensate. Once they upgrade them all, they've shot themselves in the foot.

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It's twice that amount - a 200 Amp service provides 200A for each 120V leg.

kw

Why do you need twice as much as UK residents?

Not to mention hydro!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Air conditioning is the big consumer that is uncommon in the UK as well as typically larger houses.

kw

Air conditioning consumes a lot less than heating.

Ah, that's your name, I wondered why kilowatts was being written at the end of everything.

Why are they still fixed tap?

Hardly. My meter is inside my house. Even if you don't get caught, they would replace with another smart meter. You gain nothing.

Mine is zero, it runs on butane gas. When I use the electric water heater, it is 1 Kw, buty mine is half that.

Mine is 1.8 Kw, induction. Very fast.

Nope, nope, and maybe. :-)

Nope.

Cost and reliability, I'd guess. The feeder voltage is well regulated. John T.

Unusual with modern housing (including my 1979 one). It makes it harder for them to inspect/read the meter.

But they would lose the cost of a meter.

Unusual.

WTF? That might heat a cup of coffee in a an hour.

Induction doesn't make it more than 100% efficient.

In the UK we have things called cookers. 2 ovens, 1 grill, and 4 hobs.

Sissies, sissies, and I thought the EU was banning gas?

That used to happen in some regions, about sixty years ago. One telltale sign was that the picture on CRT TV tubes used to shrink in away from the edges of the screen. Granada TV's news magazine even had an article explaining it (circa 1962 / 1963).

Spain, right? I watched a Top Gear episode about 10 years ago which showed completely empty areas of Spain where you'd all moved out.

My local substation (was? they just replaced it after it got damaged due to somebody shorting something - no fuses, doh!) is fixed tap, but adjustable manually. They refused to adjust it to lower my high voltage because they'd give someone else low voltage.