Energy Shift - anybody else signed up?

I just asked the missus about this as she pays the electric bill, she tried to sign up for it but it wont let her then we looked at our readings and we get spells of days where the smart meter doesn't report anything so i wonder if that's why. bit annoying as we are in a total blackspot for any kind of mobile signal normally so the slightest change in weather is probably making it not be able to report.
 
The lad had fun turning everything off and I mean everything, even wanted to turn off the smoke alarms. I think I've created an energy saving monster :D.

The Loop app says we used 0.14kWh for the hour but waiting for the info from Eon. It was easy this time around as the lad and the other half went out and I had a nap, however I think the next event might be more of a challenge.
 
Pointless for us.
I'd say 90 percent of our usage is stuff you can't move. Ie watching TV in the evening.

Moving one load of washing a week or 3 dishwasher loads isn't going to make a dent.
 
Finally got an email from Eon to say that we reduced our usage by 52% so will be crediting my account £1.99. I wonder what the next target will be.
 
Today's challenge is a 40% reduction from 0.69kWh to 0.41kWh between 17:30 and 18:30. The reward? 88p :D.

Yeah, I can see this initiative running out of energy despite it's potential ;).
 
Mysterae_ said:
Today's challenge is a 40% reduction from 0.69kWh to 0.41kWh between 17:30 and 18:30. The reward? 88p :D.

Yeah, I can see this initiative running out of energy despite it's potential ;).
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Who is that with?
If you fail your target do you not get anything?
Quite sneaky in that case as suspect the energy company will hoover up the benefit where people fall short.

Octopus seems to be far simpler, it appears to be simply reduce as much as you can and get 1800 octo points per 1kwh. From what I have seen you can get any fraction of 1800 so looks like they calculate to about 3 decimal points.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Who is that with?
If you fail your target do you not get anything?
Quite sneaky in that case as suspect the energy company will hoover up the benefit where people fall short.

Octopus seems to be far simpler, it appears to be simply reduce as much as you can and get 1800 octo points per 1kwh. From what I have seen you can get any fraction of 1800 so looks like they calculate to about 3 decimal points.
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It's with Eon. I presume you're right, if you don't meet the target you don't benefit at all so in that case Octopus has the better initiative. I don't think we met the target this time as I was out and the other half forgot!
 
Mysterae_ said:
It's with Eon. I presume you're right, if you don't meet the target you don't benefit at all so in that case Octopus has the better initiative. I don't think we met the target this time as I was out and the other half forgot!
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That is a bit crap then.

Maybe they are in "trial" stage since its basically the same as Octopus did for their trial previously.
 
1st session we reduced by 97%, sounds impressive but we only got 35p although as one of the top 10% they gave us a additional £1.25 which for not really changing much is good. At least it will cover a few days of standing charges or 21kw to charge our batteries up
 
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I'm on the octopus one.

1st session I made £3.08 + £1.25 bonus for being in the top 10%. All I did was turn everything off and walk the dog for an hour. I Needed to walk them anyway so why not do it while getting paid.

The second session we did our shop at Tesco so should be roughly the same.
 
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