Saving Sessions / Demand reduction thread

rodders · 28 Apr 2025 at 22:17

The Angry Welshman said:
beat you.... 16pts for me

Same lol

reef · 4 Jun 2025 at 13:08

Rather odd but I have a prompt in the app for a 30 minute saving session at 8pm tonight.

Minstadave · 4 Jun 2025 at 13:09

reef said:
Rather odd but I have a prompt in the app for a 30 minute saving session at 8pm tonight.

Yeah seen it mentioned on HUKD.

b0rn2sk8 · 4 Jun 2025 at 13:10

I’ve just seen predbat has signed me up to it.

Not sure I’ll get much as I am normally exporting my battery at this point of the day, I’ve still got solar production as well.

Ron-ski · 4 Jun 2025 at 13:24

I'm usually exporting at that time of night, but I can turn the power up for half an hour

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 4 Jun 2025 at 14:03

Opted in and set my alternate TOU onto inverter.
Will flip back to normal afterwards.

Oh didnt see it mentioned, but its 11p per kWh saved.

bigmike20vt · 4 Jun 2025 at 14:09

that is a weird one. i wonder what is happening tonight around then? right now whole sale price is only a gnats pube off free (19p a MWh). Yes i know things change fairly quickly but surely not so much to warrant a saving session?

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 4 Jun 2025 at 14:15

Can't see anything on NESO on twitx who normally post something so my guess is a test for that time of night or something

200sols · 4 Jun 2025 at 14:19

Service requirement says live https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/demand-flexibility/dfs_utilisation_report_summary

Joke of a price again.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 4 Jun 2025 at 14:35

Oh so its actually an hour long but Octopus only got in on 30 mins

Struggling to see how this is anything but them data gathering at that time of night.

HungryHippos · 4 Jun 2025 at 15:30

I've turned off these notifications for a while now as the value returns just aren't there, I'm not going to wear the old battery out for 10p/kWh or so.

200sols · 4 Jun 2025 at 15:37

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Oh so its actually an hour long but Octopus only got in on 30 mins

Struggling to see how this is anything but them data gathering at that time of night.

Plenty of wind out there as well. Its a strange one, no worry to us Eon people anyway

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 4 Jun 2025 at 15:38

200sols said:
Plenty of wind out there as well. Its a strange one, no worry to us Eon people anyway

What are EON paying, and does it come in as bill credit?

200sols · 4 Jun 2025 at 15:42

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
What are EON paying, and does it come in as bill credit?

Dont think they are taking part.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 4 Jun 2025 at 15:46

200sols said:
Dont think they are taking part.

Ah ok assumed that comment meant something positive for you guys

200sols · 4 Jun 2025 at 17:08

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Ah ok assumed that comment meant something positive for you guys

Ah I meant nothing happening! Of course if the sessions go back to being worthwhile it's another consideration in choosing a company.

b0rn2sk8 · 5 Jun 2025 at 07:21

I didn’t bother to reprogram Predbat to allow it to export faster than 3.6kw so we only exported 2kwh (bit of solar produced helping out).

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 5 Jun 2025 at 07:49

My baseline was -0.06, usually by 8pm its really falling off in generation so its not often doing much than covering what we are using.
Exported at 5.5kw for 30 mins, less usage so should net me 25p probably
It all helps

b0rn2sk8 · 5 Jun 2025 at 07:56

I’ve got 14 west facing panels so despite the cloud I was still doing 1.3kw at 20:00 dropping to 0.56 at 20:30.

It dropped to 0 by 20:45.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 5 Jun 2025 at 08:02

I've got 14 west as well, was just about 1kw at 8pm but was down to 100w at 8:30, there are some tallish houses on a roughly NW line to me so they clip the sun when it drops close to the horizon