Soldato
email recieved from octopus pete saying im in for todays session.......if only i could use it lol
Octopus Power Ups and Free Energy Sessions
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63% renewables now, spot pricing is negative right now.
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Soldato
I've generated absolutely naff all today so this has been very handy for me to be able to top up the batteries!
Soldato
Guess I'll charge the car for an hour, thanks for a free 35 miles!
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12.99 kw being drawn here in the 1 hour slot.
Soldato
I've just got the phone with Octopus, seems they have all my half hourly readings, it's just not showing n the app or website.
Only pulling 4kW from the grid, did try turning off the garage PV, but no difference, not sure what's holding it back, but there's 8.2kW which is 150 amps going into the batteries.
Only pulling 4kW from the grid, did try turning off the garage PV, but no difference, not sure what's holding it back, but there's 8.2kW which is 150 amps going into the batteries.
Soldato
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managed to pull between 10 and 11 for the hour. Saved less than a quid 
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I charged the near full batteries during the hour, cooked some food in the air frier, had the air con going flat out & boiled several kettles to do the washing up. The most I managed briefly was 4kW in the hour. Its just contrary to my usual efforts to minimise usage so I find it quite difficult to manage 
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Soldato
Managed just over 18kw and usually this time of day our usage is 0. Lost out on around 1.5kw export, luckily the weather is awful.
Be around £1.12 in savings, ha. Every little helps I guess.
Be around £1.12 in savings, ha. Every little helps I guess.
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Soldato
18?! Christ. Mine was 8kW in total so not too shabby for a quick top up of the car.
Soldato
I managed to put ~5kWh into the batteries (charged to 100%) so given the state of the PV generation today that'll mean I'll offset about £1.20 of import over the course of the day, plus the ~2kWh of household consumption. Not a huge amount of money saved but it's better than nothing!
Soldato
Home batteries on charge, EV on charge (would have been another EV on charge if my wife was in) AC on in the house on max, dishwasher, stihl chainsaw batteries and immersion heater. Bit of cooking and two kettles.
Associate
10.08kw showing in the app as draw from the grid over the hour.
Associate
yes, they swapped both my elec and gas for smart meters
Associate
Managed to use about 3.6kWh. Found it hard to get the usage up as being on a dual inverter system, the second inverter was feeding some of the usage and I couldn't do anything about it. Also discovered if I force charge in the daytime it clips all PV on the SE array which is ridiculous. There's apparently a firmware fix for this so I'll have to get that.
Soldato
Awesome. Sounds like a great set up you got there, I can't quite justify a battery on my first house but seeing more and more posts about them.
Soldato
I shall be exporting my free electric for 26p a kWh come 16:00.
Well I had a powerup so was 13-15:30 for me.
Roughly 10kwh into batteries, 6kwh for immersion, a load of washing and a dishwasher load, around 18kwh in total I think.
PV was flicking around the 3 or so average though around that time. So net import probably more like 10kwh.
Oh and just noticed on email another powerup tomorrow, same time
Need to keep enough batt for 5:30-10:30 tomorrow morning. So will probably just dump batts towards end of that time, after using grid from 11:30pm tonight.
Roughly 10kwh into batteries, 6kwh for immersion, a load of washing and a dishwasher load, around 18kwh in total I think.
PV was flicking around the 3 or so average though around that time. So net import probably more like 10kwh.
Oh and just noticed on email another powerup tomorrow, same time
Need to keep enough batt for 5:30-10:30 tomorrow morning. So will probably just dump batts towards end of that time, after using grid from 11:30pm tonight.