Octopus Energy Saving Sessions

[Stranger Dings]

Does anyone know how the Octopus ”Power Hour” energy saving sessions are actually calculated?

I’ve taken part in all of them, but the results just seem totally random.

I’ve had sessions where we’ve switched off as much as we can and gone out, only to be told that we didn’t manage to save anything.

Some sessions, we’ve made very small savings, Including one where virtually everything was switched off and the whole family was in another country.

One session I forgot it was happening despite signing up, only to be told I’d managed to save 93% of my normal usage and be credited with over £16 off!

I’ll continue to sign up for them and don’t really do it expecting to save much as we are already quite energy efficient. It all just seems so random.

 

[ACarneiro]

I think the key is the "export Everything" and then change it back otherwise I think it might interfere with the calculation/export rate rate from solar (I think) haven't got it enabled yet to have a play.


They did get back to me today after I sent them an email yesterday along with the DNO approval letter. Now replied back just by just filling the columns in. Looks a bit AI generated though but lets see.

Alberto is the assistant who helped me out.
You literally just need to tell him what your export limit is (in my case it’s 8kW)
He didn’t ask any questions

 

[Js1977]

Alberto is the assistant who helped me out.
You literally just need to tell him what your export limit is (in my case it’s 8kW)
He didn’t ask any questions

Might be The AI's name

Yep. All I did was fill in those two boxes in the reply

 

[YYY2022]

Same here, emailed them on the address mentioned earlier in the thread and they replied within a few hours asking for my DNO approved export limit and what was the limit configured for the solar export system. I wasn’t sure what the second question was after so I phoned my installer and have now replied to the email. Hopefully they will be pretty quick at looking at it.

 

[YYY2022]

I've just received another email saying the export feature will be enabled within the next 48 hours. Thanks for the help.

 

[Pink Duck]

My local EE/3G mast is currently unplugged for UKPN electrical diversion work:



Consequently my SMETS2 meter is having days of no receive/transmit/any signal and is ineligible for the second event, likely Mon 27th.

 

[Js1977]

Alberto is the assistant who helped me out.
You literally just need to tell him what your export limit is (in my case it’s 8kW)
He didn’t ask any questions

Just had the email back saying feature should be enabled within 48 hours. Happy days

Just wondering if those that done the "dump" had any positive comeback

 

[Js1977]

Just had the email back saying feature should be enabled within 48 hours. Happy days

And it's all there now!

 

[ACarneiro]

Just had the email back saying feature should be enabled within 48 hours. Happy days

Just wondering if those that done the "dump" had any positive comeback

They're still "running the numbers", allegedly...

 

[Fursty Ferret]

Based on the export figures in the app I’ve made a nice £16.

 

[Pink Duck]

I would have made £52.64 plus 75p export had I been able to opt-in. Instead received 800 Octopoints by way of compensation; yes, a whole £1.

 

[ACarneiro]

I would have made £52.64 plus 75p export had I been able to opt-in. Instead received 800 Octopoints by way of compensation; yes, a whole £1.

Bloody hell, how much electricity do you use??

 

[PITA]

I’m in the same situation and checked their FAQs
If you have that ability and can export during the time slot you’ll get the £2.25p/kWh for any electricity exported, so still worth it for us.
That’s what I’ll do, let’s see what happens.

I was suspecting (and hoping) this would be the case. On the last Savings Session I exported 5 kWh in that hour. (Which is about all I'm getting for a days solar at moment).

So in theory, for that 5kWh stored Solar, exported during the Savings Session hour, I should get £11.25 ...which then buys me back 150 kWh (at 7.5p) for free.

Seems like a gift. Anybody been paid yet, lol, for discharging battery storage during Saving Sessions?

 

[Pink Duck]

Same here, with peak typical demand helping the contrast (were I was able to opt-in):

 

[PITA]

Same here, with peak typical demand helping the contrast (were I was able to opt-in):

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Our peak typical demand is at nighttime... house goes crazy...

 

[ACarneiro]

Oh, sod off you three-phase show-offs

 

[PITA]

Oh, sod off you three-phase show-offs

... there was a time, quite a few people told me that 3-phase was completely unnecessary.

... but here we are, and it sure is nice.

 

[ACarneiro]

... there was a time, quite a few people told me that 3-phase was completely unnecessary.

... but here we are, and it sure is nice.

Coming from a European country where three-phase is ubiquitous I wish it was as readily available here…

 

[Pink Duck]

My property is just single phase with 100 A fuse = 21.62–25.3 kW true peak.

Not actually enough to be running a heat pump at extra 5 kW in peak…

 

[spon88]

We run two heat pumps and rarely exceed the 4kw discharge limit of our inverter. That said, we are quite disciplined with running high demand devices and just schedule them; easy enough. Our peak demand would be around 11 - 12kw at night when we're charging the car and batteries. We don't use the car too much but even so, we're set to be around £200 surplus on our energy bill for the year which includes our gas usage (cooking and hot water). The export payment on Flux built up around £800 surplus over summer which will easily see us through winter. Next step is decent cavity wall insulation and then a heat-pump water tank, but after that any additional work is very marginal and paybacks start to look a bit daft.

Oh and still waiting to see what the last savings session yielded - not much more than a fiver I guess.

 

[MrBadger]

Coming from a European country where three-phase is ubiquitous I wish it was as readily available here…

Don’t you get charged according to supply rating though? So you pay more for being able to consume more power in addition to cost of energy?

I guess it’s how the standing charge is priced. In England it once wasn’t uncommon to pay a standing charge for each metered phase.