Electricity Posts on Visitor Moorings in Banbury

[Ewan123]

On 04/07/2023 at 12:37, Dave123 said:

Most boats aren't set up to be heated by electricity though? I've always thought this is a major oversight of all these schemes to make town centre moorings smoke/emission free by installing electric bollards...it might save engine or generator running to charge batteries but in the winter most emissions are stoves or diesel heaters, which won't change with electric bollards...

At least they can say they are providing an alternative that potentially enables boaters to change their setup (if this sort of thing were rolled out wider). It's also up to us to take responsibility and change from using those options which produce greater emissions, especially if electricity bollards become more widely available. A time will come when we don't have the choice to rely on diesel/solid fuels etc. as legislation will almost certainly rule these options out (we're already getting close to it with some of the air quality zones).

Edited July 5, 2023 by Ewan123

[matty40s]

22 minutes ago, Ewan123 said:

At least they can say they are providing an alternative that potentially enables boaters to change their setup (if this sort of thing were rolled out wider). It's also up to us to take responsibility and change from using those options which produce greater emissions, especially if electricity bollards become more widely available. A time will come when we don't have the choice to rely on diesel/solid fuels etc. as legislation will almost certainly rule these options out (we're already getting close to it with some of the air quality zones).

This is what I was hinting at, it will happen in London first.

[Alan de Enfield]

12 minutes ago, matty40s said:

This is what I was hinting at, it will happen in London first.

 

That'll "thin the herd" of CMers

[Alway Swilby]

1 hour ago, Creaking Gate said:

They are on meter macs platform.  Same provider.   

 

The unit costs probably includes allowance for ongoing maintenance and the inevitable breakdowns and the user misuse, standing charges, portal access etc.  

It wasn't Meter Macs. We had to set up an account with Berth Vend.

[pearley]

Looks like Berth Vend is part of Rolec who manufacture the shore bollards.