Hi,
Does anyone know the specs of how electricity is distributed to domestic residences.
Assume you have a terrace of houses on a road. Each house has a meter, and there is a service cable that connects from the house to the "mains". It's that "mains" cable I am interested in.
How many houses does a single cable support. If there are say 20 houses in the terrace, is there one cable or several? What's the max capacity of that cable. If each house has a main 60A fuse, what's the max current draw that cable can support, and if it's exceeded, what blows ( am assuming something further up the distribution grid).
This is prompted by an argument about heat pumps and EV charging. I was arguing that the infrastructure can't support more than a few houses with enough current vs demand.
Limits of domestic electricity distribution
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Re: Limits of domestic electricity distribution
Generally there's a local substation /s stepping down from 110,000 or other high voltage that gets stepped down ultimately to 415vac 3 phase ..
That three phase plus nuteral it's then split single phase and nuteral to each house giving you 220-250vac going from old colour scheme. One house gets yellow phase one gets red one gets blue and repeat.... Most older house are fused at the meter at 80 a newer homes 100a
I agree with you in terms of the grid and supply outstripping demand this wasn't far from work a few years back
A gas supply issue caused problem this was just one little village
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/181117 ... y-osgodby/
That three phase plus nuteral it's then split single phase and nuteral to each house giving you 220-250vac going from old colour scheme. One house gets yellow phase one gets red one gets blue and repeat.... Most older house are fused at the meter at 80 a newer homes 100a
I agree with you in terms of the grid and supply outstripping demand this wasn't far from work a few years back
A gas supply issue caused problem this was just one little village
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/181117 ... y-osgodby/
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Re: Limits of domestic electricity distribution
I can't add anything technical, but National Grid seems to agree that there's insufficient infrastructure.GeraldTheBonzai wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:43 pm Hi,
Does anyone know the specs of how electricity is distributed to domestic residences.
This is prompted by an argument about heat pumps and EV charging. I was arguing that the infrastructure can't support more than a few houses with enough current vs demand.
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