Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

debitcardmayhem

NedS said:

KevinG said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Good news free leccy from Octopus for 2 hours tomorrow, bad news 0.33 O’s

During which time my highest rate is 1.617p/kWh and most of it is negative, so it will be of no benefit to me. There is a common misconception about these free sessions, it's not free electricity, it's free extra electricity, i.e. above what you would normally use. Anyway I got a glorious 0.16 Os today, so nothing to write home about.

These sessions were great whilst I was still on IOF, as they'd pay for a free charge of the battery in addition to any extra electricity actually used regardless of whether the battery charged or not, at the unit rate of ~22.3p so I'd typically get around £2.50-£3.00 for each hour long session. And for the two hour sessions, they paid double! I think I received around £5.90 for the last two hour session on IOF before I switched for winter, which was a nice payout for doing nothing. Thank you Octopus.

@neds out of interest what did you switch to from IOF?

NedS

debitcardmayhem said:

NedS said:

KevinG said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Good news free leccy from Octopus for 2 hours tomorrow, bad news 0.33 O’s

During which time my highest rate is 1.617p/kWh and most of it is negative, so it will be of no benefit to me. There is a common misconception about these free sessions, it's not free electricity, it's free extra electricity, i.e. above what you would normally use. Anyway I got a glorious 0.16 Os today, so nothing to write home about.

These sessions were great whilst I was still on IOF, as they'd pay for a free charge of the battery in addition to any extra electricity actually used regardless of whether the battery charged or not, at the unit rate of ~22.3p so I'd typically get around £2.50-£3.00 for each hour long session. And for the two hour sessions, they paid double! I think I received around £5.90 for the last two hour session on IOF before I switched for winter, which was a nice payout for doing nothing. Thank you Octopus.

@neds out of interest what did you switch to from IOF?

Octopus Cosy, which will suit us great over winter as we can recharge our battery 3 times per day and run our heat pump totally on the Cosy cheap rate of 14.8p per kWh (about the same price as SEG). Now the heating is on, IOF works out more expensive for us as we become net importers rather than net exporters.

Merlin139

0.51 O's Wet and Windy.

Netexporter

O so close. 0.95 Os for the day. I was putting out over 3.5kW but only for about 10 minutes.

debitcardmayhem

Fair 2.52, I had 4.2kW for 5ish mins

pete-20-11

1.39 Os for me

SuzeQStan

Just over 1x O today - oddly happy with that!

legoman62

1.7 O’s yesterday….just 😂

Merlin139

1.48 O's on a windy dry-ish day.

Martyn1981

Four days down and projecting 96% for Oct. But looks like a decent week ahead.

Edit - Thought the Met Office anomaly map for Sep was interesting. Very much 'a tale of two halves'. I'm on the LHS so my 92% result makes sense