Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

Perhaps Octopus are trying to make a point, get attention or whatever.

I think unless people opt out en mass, then it won't make any difference.
 
DarkBahamut said:
I'm not sure I get the logic that warrants promising a 271 MWh saving when the previous sessions at ~3x the price saved less than half that, but that's what they bid. This is relevant because if they deliver <50% of the promised saving they take a penalty, so Octopus won't even be paid the 29.9p/kWh for today anyway. I guess they'll still pay what was promised to us, but why promise such a high saving that they won't deliver?
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DarkBahamut said:
how much did Octopus promise NESO they'd save? 271 MWh.
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It is my understanding 271 is the total of both 30 minute slots, so at any given time in the 17:30-18:00 and 18:00-18:30 slots the total they bid for saving was roughly half that number.
 
200sols said:
It is my understanding 271 is the total of both 30 minute slots, so at any given time in the 17:30-18:00 and 18:00-18:30 slots the total they bid for saving was roughly half that number.
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Yeah, they said 271 for both 30 minute slots combined, but in the previous sessions they saved <129 MWh over the two 30 minute sessions too. I'm not sure if they have some secret non-consumer power they're saving and just not reporting in the emails. Will be interesting to see what got saved with the low payments yesterday though.

I'm assuming we'll see another today, and hopefully better paying considering the rather high wholesale prices forecast!
 
What's the penalty for not hitting the 271? Maybe they've found a way to mess with the system?
 
Ron-ski said:
Perhaps Octopus are trying to make a point, get attention or whatever.

I think unless people opt out en mass, then it won't make any difference.
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Supply and demand in my books. It's really bad though when the price they offer to not use a kWh is less than the normal import price and 4 x less than the Agile price at the time.

Days of £2-3 per kWh are probably gone but in times of high demand they should offer us fair payment for exported energy.
 
I absolutely agree, but unfortunately the Brits don't stick together, and I doubt there will be enough completely boycotting it to make a difference.

I do suspect there will be a lot simply not bothering, but those with batteries that can export will likely take the extra, even if it's a pittance. We don't put the effort in we did last year, so we will export less.

I still exported nearly 14 kWh last night, I could have got paid another 24p per kWh for around half of that.
 
I don't put the extra effort in like we used (delay dinner, sit in the dark etc), but would have got 39p per kWh yesterday, as I missed the saving session I got 15p per kWh, and I only paid 8.5p per kWh. If I'm exporting any way I'd be silly not to take the extra

I always export what is left in the late evening.
 
56p is more like it, won't have spare power today though really so it will be a case of no pre-charge and just drain battery followed by using grid later on probably.

I said 60p but 56 feels close enough to bother at least a bit.
 
Another one emailed between 1630 - 1730 today. Better offer this time at 56p per unit.

e: oops, well late to the party it seems.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
And we’re off, exporting at 5.5kw.
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I was at 8kW export, then I saw 5.6kW house load, wife's come home put the washing on and the kettle, not bothered about the kettle but the washing can wait - she'd forgotten :rolleyes:

Anyway exported about 7.4kWh.
 
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