Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

HungryHippos · 7 Feb 2023 at 10:49

Reckon they're stuck on something, this happened with one of the earlier ones, was some meters they had issues with.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 7 Feb 2023 at 13:33

Finally got the 30th's saving session through

8136 points, £10.17, I used about £5 elec doing my stuff in the peak window

HungryHippos · 7 Feb 2023 at 13:44

720 points or £0.90.

I think I used like 1 kWh or something in that window

Welshman · 7 Feb 2023 at 14:01

51p for me - and the below is because we was 100% solar.........

john_smith · 7 Feb 2023 at 14:15

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Finally got the 30th's saving session through

8136 points, £10.17, I used about £5 elec doing my stuff in the peak window

Mine is still calculating! Gulp.

john_smith · 7 Feb 2023 at 21:13

john_smith said:
Mine is still calculating! Gulp.

23816 points. Ca Ching. That's £29.77 and £89.38 in the pot overall.

HungryHippos · 7 Feb 2023 at 21:14

john_smith said:
23816 points. Ca Ching. That's £29.77 and £89.38 in the pot overall.

Send me some!

john_smith · 7 Feb 2023 at 21:19

I'll exchange them for some of your Solar excess in the summer.

I don't know if I should cash them in. I feel in the future the points might be more valuable when used to purchase something else. Do you remember the Esso petrol station vouchers?

HungryHippos · 7 Feb 2023 at 21:23

john_smith said:
I'll exchange them for some of your Solar excess in the summer.

I don't know if I should cash them in. I feel in the future the points might be more valuable when used to purchase something else. Do you remember the Esso petrol station vouchers?

No deal!

I'm not sure really, doesn't seem like they would be to me. Never know though do ye?

john_smith · 7 Feb 2023 at 21:26

I'm going to save up for a heat pump

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 7 Feb 2023 at 21:56

john_smith said:
I'm going to save up for a heat pump

lol

Welshman · 7 Feb 2023 at 21:58

Tried logging into octopus and it says addres no longer exists

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 7 Feb 2023 at 22:08

Welshman said:
Tried logging into octopus and it says addres no longer exists

looks broken

Welshman · 7 Feb 2023 at 22:09

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
looks broken

Too many energy saving claims

Welshman · 7 Feb 2023 at 22:13

Its back up now

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 7 Feb 2023 at 22:15

Maybe they forgot to put 50p in the meter

HungryHippos · 7 Feb 2023 at 22:19

Feeding time for the hamsters I reckon.

redfist · 8 Feb 2023 at 07:43

3772 coins which is £4.71 which considering a didn’t game this one properly is a nice surprise

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 8 Feb 2023 at 16:21

This was a really interesting podcast from Octopus that mention this.
Its from Nov actually but worth a listen

Episode 12: A new energy era - how households can help balance the grid AND get paid for it

Listen to this episode from Inside Octopus Energy on Spotify. In this episode, our podcast host, Russell Goldsmith, chats with Alex Schoch, who heads up our global flexibility team, and Devrim Celal, the CEO of Octopus’ flexibility technology arm KrakenFlex about how to unlock the untapped...

open.spotify.com

Freefaller · 8 Feb 2023 at 16:39

Didn't do that well the last session only 3000 points. But I've amassed over £40 now.