Octopus Power Ups and Free Energy Sessions

I’ve no issue with it, but it’s concerning for us who charge batteries and load shift during IOG windows that they are talking about splitting out EV charging from the total used during a window.

@Ron-ski Yes. I would assume they will charge full price during the window and then credit back an amount based on what the charger / car reports.
 
I have a 100% free charge Monday because my smart access is disabled and they want it activated. I ll enable it, change the inverter settings to charge the house batteries in the allocated time slot and then disable it again.
 
john_smith said:
I’ve no issue with it, but it’s concerning for us who charge batteries and load shift during IOG windows that they are talking about splitting out EV charging from the total used during a window.

@Ron-ski Yes. I would assume they will charge full price during the window and then credit back an amount based on what the charger / car reports.
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You still get the guaranteed cheap period to charge batteries though? As others said they can't bill you based on EV charger usage anyway. Maybe in the future if things change, but not now. If they could use something like the octopus mini to bill people it would solve a lot of smart meter issues though.

Perhaps they just want to inventivise people to use the tariff for what it is designed for rather than anything else.
 
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Zappi back to working, so back to cheap energy! Surprised how easily it was to get it swapped out, got a nice new one and can now get rid of the separate network hub. Hopefully get a few more of these sessions now as I've had no benefit to date.
 
Hmmm. My last 3 power ups have all shown up as 0.00. I've got useage data in Octopus for those periods.

Sent an email to have these reviewed. No point using a load of peak energy if it's not going to be credited back correctly.
 
@Hawk Tuah
I had a missing power up credit, they advised of the total for three but only credited two.
I spoke to CS (twitter DM) and they after a week gave me the amount as a good will gesture.

They had contacted the PU team but hadn't had a response. I suspect that same team is doing the free sessions.

I received the proper credit today as well, (CS just confirmed to keep the extra one no issues)

That was PU for 25/7 31/7 and 08/08, they have not processed the ones since yet.
 
Free electricity between 1 and 2 - I'll be exporting at full whack looking at the forecast so I'd need to be drawing a stratospheric amount of power from the grid to offset that. I don't think it is actually possible for me to draw enough power with that much generation going on!
 
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Free electricity between 1 and 2 - I'll be exporting at full whack looking at the forecast so I'd need to be drawing a stratospheric amount of power from the grid to offset that. I don't think it is actually possible for me to draw enough power with that much generation going on!
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Same, I'd need to import >2X the export to even break even. That means drawing 15kw just to net off at zero. I mean I could do it but I'd be saving 7p/kwh in reality as that is my overnight rate given I'd normally use zero during the day at this time of year.

Otherwise known as not worth the hassle.
 
Had a powerup today from 12-2:30 so it covered the same period.
For most of the 1-2pm I was pulling around 10kw from the grid.

Batteries were fully discharged as Agile was expensive last night, but otherwise I would have simply emptied them anyway in advance at 15p

The clouds came out at around 13:15 and didn't go full sun again till 13:50 approx. So solar dropped to around 1.5kw or so.

House load + charging batts (5.5kw) + immersion 2.5kw I think, + dishwasher + washing on, some hot drinks, pannini sandwich.
I'm not complaining ;)

Tomorrow will be similar. Free session then cheap agile so will be emptying batts in advance if there is anything in them, although again overnight isn't great so they won't be that full.
Charge and heat water etc again from 1- around 3pm when cheap agile ends. Then later dump batteries ready for the free power up from 7-9pm.
Agile is quite cheap when the free is on anyway and I would be charging slightly earlier than if the free power wasnt on. Optimum 2 hours is really around 13:15 - 15:15 with the slight tail off on battery charging.
Mine fully charge in 2 hours give or take.

As I am West facing most of the time either batts are low if its a low generation day, or I am dumping very low overnight agile units for 15p in the morning.
If its a good generation day I flip self use to feed in priority and nothing goes into the batts and excess over usage is all exported.

Only negative for me is that if these sessions start to show up with regularity I may need to consider agile charging times. Agile is often low priced at this time as well.
So I will often do a battery top up lunchtime so as my array is kicking into action being West facing, the batts are full and its straight to 15p export.

Before I moved to agile and was on go I wouldn't bother pulling in more units than I could use before a powerup to make sure batts were low in advance.
 
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