Octopus Power Ups and Free Energy Sessions

Managed 19.69 kWh, but I did have to put the dishwasher on again, as I went make lunch and saw the tablet sat on the worktop :rolleyes:

Batteries reach 85% SOC, and got 6.85 kWh into the car.
 
Best one in a while. Did 42.3 kWh and that’s without an hour of car charging which I ll get back later on today when they go on charge.
 
About 16kWh for us. Charged the house battery from 20% to 100%, ran the heat pump and the car charged for the whole of the second hour.
 
it’s still a lot of effort though considering I missed out on around 14kWh of export.
The real point I guess is helping the grid.
 
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Nathan said:
it’s still a lot of effort though considering I missed out on around 14kWh of export.
The real point I guess is helping the grid.
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I exported my battery from 07:45 to 11:55, so there was plenty of room to grid charge it and store the solar generation as well. Probably not the best for the grid though.
 
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You will still get two hours free charging as long as its plugged in for the free session, mines plugged in and it scheduled it for 20:30 to 22:00 and then several times through to 06:30. I will just unplug the car later, and plug back in before going to bed.

Currently got 7kW of solar, have been pulling 10kW from the grid, dishwasher on, washing machine on (tumble dryer when that finishes), hot water boost on.

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Didn't know that. So it lets you charge at a later time and get it for free still? Interesting.
 
Well, you get a 50p bill credit per hour (as long as the car was plugged in for the full free session), when you charge outside the free session you are charged, but 7kwh = 49p, so its effectively free.
 
I had it plugged in the whole 2 hours. But I hit pause on my hypervolt app as it was eating into my export :cry:
 
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I peaked at 17.6 kW, I programmatically reduce battery charging so that my grid import doesn't exceed 18kW, which is 75 amps, we only have a 80A grid fuse, and whilst exceeding that short term won't blow the fuse I just prefer to play it safe.

My car didn't charge during the hour, instead I got slots from 12:00 to 15:30, so for now I've left it charging, as solar was less than expected, and the batteries are not full yet, I'll turn it off when they are close to full.

Managed to pull 10.3 kWh, but mistakenly set the hot water to 50c instead of 60c, but realised part way through.
 
We imported 12.1kwh, the car was out and was not plugged in for half the session so I doubt I’ll get any credit for that. They didn’t charge it either during the second half hour.

What I did do was have 4 fan heaters going for the full hour, the heat pump was on and I boosted the hot water to 60C. Dishwasher ran, washing machine ran and the battery was charging for an hour.
 
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We did about 6.81kW. I ran the hot water on the heat pump and the Air to air heat pump to warm up a couple of rooms at the same time. The car did not charge again which is annoying as I could have done with it to do so.
 
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Well, you get a 50p bill credit per hour (as long as the car was plugged in for the full free session), when you charge outside the free session you are charged, but 7kwh = 49p, so its effectively free.
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If I recall correctly, all house elec is 7p/kwh whilst car is charging via dynamic scheduling as well, beit during the “free hour(s)” or otherwise, just long as car is charging.

63 >>80% car charge over weekend for me, didn’t need to go over that. Misses loves my mad dash to plug every battery bank, laptop, hoover, PS5 controllers, Switch.
 
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On IOG the car doesn't need to be plugged in, all house electric is still free during the free sessions.
 
Managed to pull a peak of about 11kW from the grid on saturday. Sunday was less as the solar was churning out 4kW for most of the hour.

 
i plugged in my car 15 mins after the free period started on both days.
does this mean i will get nothing? or will it be pro rata'd?

I was hoping because electricity is billed in 30min blocks it would backtrack the half hour anyway but maybe not. The "free" sessions will have ended up costing me money if i dont get free charging credit for those periods as it blapped all my export and on the sunday i forgot to unplug at the end of the hr and it flattened my house battery :/
 
I'd assume they'd just pro-rata it since the know exactly when the car was plugged in, but you might also get the whole 30 minute segment. I have previously seen that having a car plugging in, but not available to charge (IE. car is above the charge target) still gets the credit anyway. That's happened on days where there was too much solar to bother with the free session I still got the charging credit, but we only use a slow 3 pin charger right now so it wasn't exactly a big pay day! I plugged in part way through the session on Saturday though since I was out at the start of it so we'll see what that does!
 
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