Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

[Stu999]

Tomorrow 2pm to 3pm on Octopus - free electricity. Will put the washing machine on.

 

[HungryHippos]

Tomorrow 2pm to 3pm on Octopus - free electricity. Will put the washing machine on.

I have the same but it's conditional on plugging my car in to charge and does not include normal household usage.

I sleep on it

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Its a meh from me.
That time of day I can easily be generating near the max my system can send to batts so if I was to charge batts then it may all be solar anyway.

If it was anything other than summer I may take advantage.

 

[reef]

No chance I'm doing this. If it's sunny they'll schedule a slot, steal all of my export and battery and normal household usage would then be full rate.

People not on IOG/IFlux are getting all usage free in the hour (the emails sent out are different). Can't help but wonder if this is a trial on separating EV/ standard usage. The moment Octopus start doing this on their tariffs is the moment I leave Octopus.

 

[Nathan]

Stinks I think…I agree, starting to look at separating usage.
I ll give it a miss as I ll be exporting loads at that time anyway, my peak time.

 

[200sols]

People on IOG were happy to game the saving session baselines though. You'd be very naive if you think they don't know exactly how people act during these sessions.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

The original emails about this basically said, if you have solar don’t worry about it, particularly IOG customers with solar, so I’m not.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

No chance I'm doing this. If it's sunny they'll schedule a slot, steal all of my export and battery and normal household usage would then be full rate.

People not on IOG/IFlux are getting all usage free in the hour (the emails sent out are different). Can't help but wonder if this is a trial on separating EV/ standard usage. The moment Octopus start doing this on their tariffs is the moment I leave Octopus.

Not true, those people get the additional usage free not all the usage

I find the "steal all my export" a strange reaction and pretty hyperbolic. If you need charge then the greenest units you can use are self generated solar. Its hardly stealing to divert your own generation to your own car.
Whilst the overnight units are cheap and fairly green often they can never compete with your own, especially when the grid is overloaded with renewable generation.

 

[Ron-ski]

I shall not be bothering. I never gamed the baseline, but I know many did.

If I'm exporting then my neighbours are using it, that's being green and getting paid for it, I never need to charge my car in the daytime or evening, overnight is fine, so I plug my car in when I go to bed, once a week usually.