Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

The last one on 2/2 was 200MW required, which produced 157 / 161.

I agree, on the price. It paid up to a max £2.50 last time but I'm not expecting above the £1.75 paid by Octopus this time. I would hope it isn't any less.

I think your picking up the committed (Ie accepted) the last sessions actuals arent published

 

[alphaomega16]

Probably going to be a hard pass from me

 

[Ron-ski]

I'll be in, but my 18:30 - 19:00 baseline will be negative as I have been exporting some evenings, but the half hour before should be zero.

 

[alphaomega16]

im guessing they announced the pricing, RIP Octopus site

 

[200sols]

£1.75

Probably going to be a hard pass from me

Why?

 

[alphaomega16]

£1.75


Why?

Because going by bidding info and amount some were guessing very low price and it wouldn't have been worth it given what I can export.

 

[200sols]

Because going by bidding info and amount some were guessing very low price and it wouldn't have been worth it given what I can export.

Even if it went much lower, why opt out? We double dip as well getting normal export on top.

 

[JackRegan]

Even if it went much lower, why opt out? We double dip as well getting normal export on top.

I was thinking the same.

Folks on Flux are already force exporting for 30p. So £1.75 plus say the 15p on Outgoing Octopus totals £1.90 per kWh. I'm not sure why you'd turn your nose up at that.

 

[HungryHippos]

Only reason I can see is a form of protest, if they drop the prices too low.

We are effectively a mini-power plant in this equation.

If they don't offer enough, then supply/demand will kick in, and they won't hit the kind of numbers they want people to export/save.

Below £1/kWh I'd be less inclined to bother to be honest, because of this reason, but at £1.75 I'll bite. It's still probably profitable at £0.50/kWh or so, but that is paying very little for a high demand thing then.

 

[jpaul]

.... octopus is offering £113.4 /Mwh for 300Mw&600Mw deficits in time period 14/15 on elexxon/bmrs site.

 

[Ron-ski]

Apparently Octopus bid £1.50


£1.75 from Octopus for each kWh.

The next Saving Session:
Today for 1 hour between 18:00 - 19:00

Opt in now to earn 1400 Octopoints - worth £1.75 - for every unit of power you save

 

[sovietspybob]

Just checked and our baseline is 0.4kwh, not even worth bothering with

 

[HungryHippos]

Apparently Octopus bid £1.50

If they bid £1.50 and are paying us £1.75 per kWh saved, how are Octopus making money here?

Has to be something to it. You'd assume that it would typically be along the lines of Octopus getting £2 per kWh saved and then paying us the £1.75, means they get something for running it and working out the numbers etc then.

Is it the cost of supplying energy to us at that time being higher than the difference?

 

[john_smith]

Ooohhh, my baseline is showing at 4.53. Nice. Should be able to dump 3 giving me around £13. That should cover most of this months bill.

 

[200sols]

Is it the cost of supplying energy to us at that time being higher than the difference?

28p and 26p on agile in those slots, so the cost to Octopus is much lower than these figures.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

doh!
Started the session by switching my batteries to force CHARGE! instead of force discharge

 

[HungryHippos]

My export actually worked this time!

 

[Ron-ski]

I had a baseline of -2.47 kWh due to exporting between 18:30 and 19:00, this is the first session in that period this winter, and there was only three last winter (two in March).

Exported 7.63, less 2.47 = 5.16 kWh x £1.75 = £9.03

 

[john_smith]

result. £19.79

2024-01-17 17:30:00+00:00

0

5.8056

8.7966

15832

19.79

2.991

 

[john_smith]

I can only export at 3 at the moment due to the DNO. I've appealed it and been given permission for 7. Just waiting for my mate to come round and adjust the export limit on my battery so I can dump at its maximum - 5.