Electricity Tripping Out

Check on your bill, it should tell you how much the company is contracted to supply… you can then compare that to the kwh rating of the appliances you are using at the time of the trip

Sorry but this is the second post on this so may have overlapped. Since fitting smart meters, the meters are outside the house and these are the ones that now trip when you exceed your use, not the trip fuses in the house like they used to. It has happened to a couple of people I know and the trip fuses in the house stay on unless it is an isolated fault, like a dodgy light circuit. If you exceed the contracted power then the smart meter outside the house (ours are contained in cabinets on the street) are the ones that trip and have to be reset. 

All he told you seems correct. If you have contract with your electric provider about 2200watt and you need more, so you may upgrade your contract. But first, you need to upgrade your electric installation, and 400€ seems a good price, material and manpower. Maybe your installation is yet suitable for an upgrade of the delivery power, about 3500watt, but first a technical will come to check the installation and verify, and the price for his coming to your home it's about 80€ yes.

3500 w is 3.5Kw and is not enough for all the modern equipment we now have. 5.75Kw is recommended nowadays. 

I've got 2200watt and I just need to manage the use of my machines, not in the same time. Example, a washing machine is about 1200w and the water heater 1200W, so I can't use them both, but successively. In summer, we don't use so much electricity, so 5750w seems too much, and this kind of contract is more expensive than 2200 or 3500w.

Anyway, each one need to calculate what is the necessity of his house, according to his material.

Thank you that's what happened didn't trip in the house just the end of street and as this was the first time just wasn't aware thanks again

Thanks that's really all I wanted to know a lot different to the UK thank you very helpful 

Just to add, make sure when you reset trip at meter you have switched off everything  you were using in the apartment incl check the main fuse is on in fuse box, (this snippet wasted nearly an hour of our time and to nearly calling an electrician.) So esy to forget. 

Regards Pauline 

You need to call into the iberdrola office in santa pola, you can upgrade to 5.75 kW, we upgraded ours from 2.0 kW  to 5.75 and they charged us 179 euros.