I will from spring onwards. At the moment I prefer to keep the available energy to run the house (the ASHPs do use a fair bit more energy in the winter).
You got me worried there.
Still on gas heating here and I usually have some charge left in the battery by 23:30.
I don’t necessarily think it’s wrong, after all if Tesla or Octopus don’t care, why wouldn’t I take advantage. I definitely don’t want to break any T&Cs though, hence asking.
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Fixed what? I think you’ve mis-read it. Look at the screenshot I posted. The octopus statement is an “OR” statement with 3 options. It’s micro wind turbine OR buy/sell using a house battery OR use a V2H vehicle.I fixed that for you
Your suggestion here is that you want to charge off peak and discharge off peak and then what?... charge off peak again so that you have cheap electric for the peak time again?
The whole idea of them giving you a high export rate is to give you an incentive to not use your renewables (such as solar, wind turbine or hydro) and sell it to them.
Think of IOG... if you have solar and plug in during the day and get off peak slots when the sun is shining on them, charging your car then if of absolutely no use to you for financial gain, it actually loses you money since you are consuming at 7.5p but this also cancels your solar export at 15p.
Your battery makes more financial sense for self consumption OR grid balance which is why the rates are what they are. A better idea to use that "extra" power from the battery is finding something else to use it on such as an induction hob or even just boil the kettle instead of putting cold water on the gas hob.
TL'DR: IOG is not a wind turbine
I don’t think it’s taken out of context, we clearly differ in the understanding of Octopus’ statement.
Raises hand. Solar has picked up a smidge now, so more days where PW is a bit more likely to have surplus charge by late evening. No point letting it go to waste, so I switch PW's Energy Exports setting to "Everything" at around 9-10pm to earn a few more pennies. PW does a decent job of adjusting export power in order to hit the standby reserve exactly on 11:30pm.
Yes very contradictory. The people writing these documents obviously don’t talk to each other.
Less than you might think in a regulated market. They're obliged to be fair to customers, and if you say clearly that export is payable in the FAQ, it would be unfair to have terms override that.
