Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

hmm odd i have an email about saving sessions talking about 29th and 1st
"

• You saved 14.23 kWh, earning you 45552 Octopoints – worth £56.94."

But website isnt updated

Edit, matches predictions, diff £0.01

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I think its based on customer account number, and assuming these are added sequentially as people join then it makes sense why I always get an early result since I was a customer back in 2018 or something so will have a lowish account number.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I see the 3rd session on the web portal now for anyone who hasn't had an email about it.

Wonder when we will see if any partner offers are worthwhile. I am kind of itching to convert into credit!..

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

They are different. They said that free energy sessions take precedence over power ups, although no idea why they would care about the difference. Shrugs.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Last was 10568 points.
Total so far 60336 points, which is £75.42
First session I was only exporting for 30 mins as was away and it didn't take the initial force export setting.

Looking at the forecast, decent wind about so don't think we will see any more saving sessions per xmas
Could be some power ups though with that wind

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

To add to above post.

Last year they didn't take into account export which seeing as its a shortage of supply to the grid at not £LOL (the last bits of generation are indeed £LOL).
It was clearly a bit dumb where part of the future grid strategy was utilising various consumer to grid schemes (cars batteries etc) and yet it was excluded.
So along with deleting the in day adjustment (how you made £s in 22/23 season) they added that export is now included in domestic payouts, so your net improvement counts and not simply your net reduction.

You 100% need batteries though. No one is going to be generating solar when the majority of the sessions are likely to be. (generally 4-7pm peak)

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Spot on.

The next Saving Session:
Today for 1 hour between 17:00 - 18:00

Opt in now to earn 1800 Octopoints - worth £2.25 - for every unit of power you save.

PS it's so nice I can now easily set the schedule from my phone

How did you find out about this for sure Ronski?

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I looked on the website, seems to be the first place its advertised.

Ah yeah last time when I gave early notification it was from there as well.
Seems to be the fastest way, I guess it needs to be done first in order to allow signup.

Wonder if we can setup an automated type check. I only know of ones that work when you have the browser open

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

It took a few attempts for me.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

From the link Ron put up yesterday then the two higher paying sessions were real.
The lower paying are test.

I do think however that whilst they are test, they are still making a real impact, its just they are not desperate requirement as opposed to nice to have.

Also I think the point of the test sessions is likely to be different this year to last. I think last was mainly, do they work, can they make a difference.
This year seems shorter notice to some extent and I wonder if its more focussed on notice and timings.
Plus of course this year moved the in day out of scope and brought export into scope. (Export being really dumb to be excluded last year of course).

I believe as part of the scheme NG guarantee at least 12. Obviously there is work for the energy companies and to get public engagement there needs to be enough to actually garner some momentum.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

My data now in for yesterday (the app thingy linked previously)

£12.49

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

This is odd, its saying none for me on pricing?


Anybody else getting that? It said I opted in via app and website as well.

Pricing or tariff was what was causing it to fall over yesterday

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

This is getting seriously wacky now
I have a power up from 3-5pm so free power
at 5pm a saving session so I can then get paid to export all the energy they just gave me for free!

Edit, thanks to those who picked up a posted the early warnings, octopus site gets properly slow when it hits mainstream

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I just got the ping on whatsapp for todays SS!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Yay opted in as well

Messed u slightly today, charged a fraction into the 5-6 slot from my 3-5 powerup
Will have knocked a chunk off my returns still its free leccy cant really complain
(I was running at 15.5kw import for a while in the 2 hour session)

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I was late switching from importing to exporting yesterday so down around £1 to normal with £11.26

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

session	import	export	baseline	saved	reward	earnings
2023-11-16T17:30:00.000Z	0.352​	2.347​	0.0055​	2.3424​	4216​	5.27​
2023-11-29T17:00:00.000Z	0.003​	5.352​	1.4525​	6.8015​	21768​	27.21​
2023-12-01T16:30:00.000Z	0​	6.549​	0.8833​	7.4323​	23776​	29.72​
2023-12-05T17:30:00.000Z	0​	4.693​	1.1801​	5.8731​	10568​	13.21​
2023-12-12T17:00:00.000Z	0​	4.66​	0.8936​	5.5536​	9992​	12.49​
2023-12-14T17:00:00.000Z	0.279​	4.501​	0.7829​	5.0049​	9008​	11.26​
2023-12-15T17:00:00.000Z	0​	4.563​	0.7829​	5.3459​	9624​	12.03​

£111.19 less maybe £10 or so for using grid elec instead of battery when holding for export

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

@Mercenary Keyboard Warrior your grid import costs will be offset against what you get paid for the export as well.

I see there's a league table as well now.

Streamlit

savingsessions.streamlit.app

yeah although I am only on 8p units on export vs 31p on import, every little helps

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Cripes Ive got a power up from 3-5 today, so hopefully the SS if it happens is say 5:30-6:30 trying to flip from use as much as possible to dont use anything mode with no gap is a pain

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

It does seem a little crazy.

Giving away free electricity in one region, whilst at the same time, happy to pay the DFS nationwide.

Its excess capacity they cannot get out of some generation areas.
Grid needs upgrades basically.