Octopus Energy customers 'miffed' at only earning 8p by sitting in dark for hour
Customers have argued the amount of money 'is simply not worth the inconvenience'
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Octopus Energy customers 'miffed' at only earning 8p by sitting in dark for hour
Customers have argued the amount of money 'is simply not worth the inconvenience'
People need to knowledge themselves up on energy use and cost.
- Light bulbs, especially LED ones, use very little energy. So switching a whole house off, vs all on, saves pennies, even at £2.25 per kWh
- It's just one hour - so you're not going to receive hundreds of pounds for this regardless.
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Seems to work for the Energy leechers, while doing a huge finger up at those who are actually struggling just to turn the heating on
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The warning has already cleared, they're going to increase imports for the period.
I mean, it worked. Despite the cost to Octopus (£13) it reduced demand on the network during the risk window of low power availability.
I saw it and was going to post that one up - nice work to that person
You have electric heating?
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Well he was charging an EV by the looks of it so just shifted that off peak. Not really an option for most.
I saw it and was going to post that one up - nice work to that person
You have electric heating?
Yeh Storage Heaters too! Running just two storage heaters, one has no controls the other on low input/output can use up to £7 a night even on Economy 7 with nothing else in use. Gone are the days of 4p low night rates now it's 23p
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Exactly - if they are saving that much, then they are using a lot of energy (at high cost) during that period normally.
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Going for the Combo, big money win
My night rate will be going down when my tariff eventually switches.Yeh Storage Heaters too! Running just two storage heaters, one has no controls the other on low input/output can use up to £7 a night even on Economy 7 with nothing else in use. Gone are the days of 4p low night rates now it's 23p
I mean the point is to get those super high energy users to reduce their usage in peek moments so its doing exactly what it should.
I'm very much one of those whom can't afford heating but I'm not going to begrudge the fact people are saving and made an effort tbh. It's better for everyone.
The selfish moan about only earning 8p or similar is the problem here.
It’s the National Grid paying. I guess it is cheaper than importing the energy. The price is probably based on some real numbers somewhere.
£13 guy, usually using ~5Kw during hour test session , 1/3 of his daily use sounds like they are granny charging an ev, so why you wouldn't have octopus go is anyones guess,
sound like he shifted ev charging into the typical period where test sessions likely to occur, will that really offset octopus 7.5p overnight unit cost.
Ofgem virtue signalling with their excess direct debit exposure - they should be working on the methodology to set the standing charge, which is still disproportionately impacting the poorer, both attracting VAT and including electricity volume/consumption components.
sound like he shifted ev charging into the typical period where test sessions likely to occur, will that really offset octopus 7.5p overnight unit cost.
Ofgem virtue signalling with their excess direct debit exposure - they should be working on the methodology to set the standing charge, which is still disproportionately impacting the poorer, both attracting VAT and including electricity volume/consumption components.
sorry, was one of the mods I thought discovered a poe router in his loft for cctv burning 500W or so
Thought this might interest some people here.
From EonNext Energy shift campaign the other week
From EonNext Energy shift campaign the other week
- 20,800 customers took part
- 14,482 /69.6% of them were paid on the basis of hitting their target
- Average customer reduction was 0.6kwh (average reduction for those that hit the targets was 0.7kwh)
- Average customer payment where the target was hit was £1.77 with the highest payment being £25.63
- Total amount paid during the Energy shift event was £25,701.62
Considering he's said he's changing all his timers to avoid 4-7pm for high usage it just means for future sessions he won't actually be get as big a payout or any because his usage will have been low for the calculation period prior to the next session.
And why he isn't on Go when he first go the EVs? So more fool him I guess.
Ahh yes. That was @Will Gill
It can't be a moving target to be a success.
Best way to operate it would be to aggregate data over a time frame. (month? Year?) and work out not what you change. But what you achieve.
Target is to better spread grid demand?
Fine, so if you use 3000kwh and 100pc is used 4-9pm you get nothing.
If you use 0pc 4-9pm you get max rewards multiplied by some total KWh ratio.
You can't keep resetting the baseline.
Think people would be more interested in this 30 pounds a month than 1 pound a day. Even if its identical
Best way to operate it would be to aggregate data over a time frame. (month? Year?) and work out not what you change. But what you achieve.
Target is to better spread grid demand?
Fine, so if you use 3000kwh and 100pc is used 4-9pm you get nothing.
If you use 0pc 4-9pm you get max rewards multiplied by some total KWh ratio.
You can't keep resetting the baseline.
Think people would be more interested in this 30 pounds a month than 1 pound a day. Even if its identical
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Your idea sounds similar to mine, I feel like they set it up for maximum marketing benefit at lowest cost, but it is a baaby step I guess.
I now have on my dashboard they calaculating the numbers, how long does it take for Ocotpus?
The dashboard can still be accessed on the app as well, so the hiding of it is only on the website.