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Three phase power is not “the standard” in Europe. It’s more available perhaps, but certainly not the default residential hookup.
by ComputerGuru 3y ago
Three phase power is not “the standard” in Europe. It’s more available perhaps, but certainly not the default residential hookup.
- jgilias 3y agoEurope is big. Where I live it’s pretty much the default. You can get a 1-phase connection, but you basically need to downgrade to it, and all the default wiring would be done in a way to support 3 phases if needed.
- Symbiote 3y agoIn some European countries it is (even in my apartment in Copenhagen), in others it isn't. Where it isn't the default, it's generally available for an extra fee, and may well be the default for buildings slightly larger than a house — a shop, mechanic, etc.
- apexalpha 3y agoin The Netherlands is absolutely is the default. My home, built in 1971, had 1 phase connected to it but the power company already buried the 2 extra copper wires for 3-phase hookup, requiring only a new meter for 3 phase to be installed.
- mschuster91 3y agoIt is the default for building hookups (i.e. excluding individual apartments/condos/flats, but EV chargers don't make sense there anyway) at least in the Western European countries - can't speak for much of Eastern Europe but Croatia where it is also the default. Even during the 60s when the home of my grandparents was built in back-then Communist Yugoslavia, it was already 3 phase. Our transmission grid (that actually extends even down to Africa and parts of Asia!) is already three phases, we're not sparsely settled to require SWER anywhere, so it doesn't save the utilities any money to not lay three-phase AC to every building by default.
- _zoltan_ 3y agoit's standard in France, Germany, Hungary Slovakia and Switzerland, at least.