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We're planning a winter in our motorhome on a campsite in Spain.  One price quote includes for free electric with usage of up to "6 kilowatt per day".  Has anyone experienced this and how far does 6 kw per day go? Is it a generous allowance or a stingy one?  Would we be able to make normal use our 400w halogen heater in the evenings, 500w single hob for cooking, 1500w kettle and usual ancillaries e.g. fridge, freezer, TV, lights etc without exceeding 6 kw per day?  I think that once you've exceeded your 6kw daily quota, you have to pay for the excess.

Another campsite has quoted electric supply as "up to 90kw/ month free) kw extra 0.30€"

6000 watts a day your 400 watt heater will use, you guessed it 400 watts per hour so it will soon be gone and you will be paying

How much is the excess may i ask

Hi Geoff & Emmy

The first site which is quoting 6 Kw per day (which would work out at 180 Kw per month?) didn't mention what the charge is for excess usage, so must check up on that.

The second site which quotes 90 Kw per month (which I guess works out at only 3Kw per day!)  will charge an excess of 30cents per Kw.  Beginning to sound expensive...

So if you use say 9kw a day its about the same as here when sites charge around £3 for electric per day

you could always buy a generater........

Thank you so much everyone for your input on this. 

Andrew's reply helped to put things into perspective.  Halogen heater in Spain(?) - lots of people have warned us that, once the sun has set, winter nights in Spain can be chilly enough to need some form of heating. In the UK we use a halogen heater with 2 x 400w elements, but one 400w element is usually enough in the motorhome, even in the depths of an arctic English winter.  So all in all, it's looking like we should manage to stay "out of the red" as long as we're careful. 

Cheers, best wishes and happy motorhoming to you all.

Is your fridge one of the new generation tall fridge/freezer type?  The one in our motorhome is the  basic Dometic small, under-the-counter type with very small freezer compartment.  We were thinking of taking a small table-top freezer as well - maybe not such a good idea(?!)

Quote: Originally posted by Burstner Babes on 29/9/2011

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Is your fridge one of the new generation tall fridge/freezer type?  The one in our motorhome is the  basic Dometic small, under-the-counter type with very small freezer compartment.  We were thinking of taking a small table-top freezer as well - maybe not such a good idea(?!)

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