Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

@Mercenary Keyboard Warrior lucky you.

You need a nice scheduling system like me My system takes just under a minute to ramp right up or down, so just have to allow for that.

Last time was my own fault, trying to have the free generation on to last minute with 4kw of fan heaters.
Today if SS happens will just drop the fans a bit earlier. Its not so cold anyway.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Keep an eye on the website, thats the first thing thats enabled before they send the messages

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Bet its today we get that one (12th) it always seems to end up as a week

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

on the app now.

And website

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Spotted this on the message on TwitX
+ 400 for top 20% of savers

Most of us exporters should be in top 20% I would guess.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

When you sign up for Octoplus it automatically signs up your export if your export registered with them
Suspect you cannot sign up if you havent setup the export side

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I suspect no more.
Weather is pretty bad so wind based renewables will be pretty high on gen.
Industry etc will start shutting down so demand will start to drop.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Mr consistent

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​
2023-12-19T17:00:00.000Z	0​	4.683​	0.779​	5.462​	9832​	12.29​

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Yeah mine are in, upto the 15th and all agree (a couple Octopus paid 8 points more)

£111 in points right now.
Lovely!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Holding for now
I suspect the partners would be like clubcard etc have.
So some travel and food places etc

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

98800 points so far

They did email to say another this year is unlikely but not impossible

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Yeah as I predicted before I think all of us exporting will be top 20%

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Importing is a gamble basically.
We have had more sessions this year, if it was last years schedule it probably (I haven't specifically checked) not have paid off.

Thats situationally dependent though, everyone is different.
As my batteries rarely last all day now I just use grid from 5-7pm which is by far the most likely session timing. It generally gets me to cheap charge time or very close now.
It has given me a base usage of just under 1kwh most of the time and its not added any cost to my bill.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I am 99% sure it was there just the same last year.

They give a load of that stuff away at times, I suspect the shop was opened up for some people who just must have certain items.

Some Folk are weird.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Just went and checked mine.
I have now had 800 bonus points added, takes me just past £125 redemable!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Agree I predicted today may happen myself a few days ago
Low wind in the East mid-late afternoon could mean the turbines offshore are low generation

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Yeah if you look at the links someone posted up before you could see bids on them.

No idea how they would validate.
Eg how can Octopus submit the volume they can realistically impact.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

The test session data I guess.

Yeah at a price point close to £2.25 I am sure.
But if they were to decide to bid say £1 they would be gambling that take up would be as significant.

I guess as they try a few price points its going to give them some idea.

Its going to be like placing ebay snipe bids!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

The test sessions should have varied the price. While its worth it for the majority at £2.25, as it goes lower normal users and people without batteries will be less inclined to take part. Not worth the hassle for 20p etc.

Exactly my thoughts

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

There's speculation that there may be another saving session Friday.

Octopus saving sessions coming 1st Nov - Page 101 - camelot-forum.co.uk

camelot-forum.co.uk

Agree, based on east coast wind on friday from 4-5pm its dropped quite a lot. So perfect timing.
Its get really really low later in the evening but probably too far after the peak usage to be realistic

East coast wind has been a pretty good estimator for them in the past