Octopus Saving Session

razord

wild666 said:

I suppose the times are different for different parts of the country mine says 6PM to 7PM by that time I'm tucked up in bed watching tubi TV 

Nope, times are the same across the country. If someone is paying you to reduce between 6pm and 7pm, they're doing it off their own back, and it's not part of the National Grid ESO's Demand Flexibility Service.

Sounds more like a mistake to me!

Lorian

Just had notification that indicates there may be another live event tomrorow (Tuesday) - will be confirmed or otherwise at 14:30

peter3hg

70sbudgie said:

I'm curious if the fact that this is "real" and not a test will impact on people's willing to "game" the system. Will you be maxing out the in day adjustment period in the same way as if it were a test?

I'll be working on the same basis I have for the tests which is shift anything I can to the adjustment period but I'm not going to use extra power for the sake of it that I wouldn't use anyway.
As it happens my savings will probably be less for this one as my EV doesn't need much of a charge and the sun's been out a bit which will have heated the hot water up already.

CanNeverThinkOfAUsername

Lorian said:

Just had notification that indicates there may be another live event tomrorow (Tuesday) - will be confirmed or otherwise at 14:30

Fingers crossed - Love these! haha

razord

Lorian said:

Just had notification that indicates there may be another live event tomrorow (Tuesday) - will be confirmed or otherwise at 14:30

This is a weird one. It's in the CSV for the dataset, but it's not present on the API (which means it's not visible on the website either) - I wonder what's happened here.

Edit: They fixed the API at 12:20 so now it's showing correctly.

t0rt0ise

70sbudgie said:

I'm curious if the fact that this is "real" and not a test will impact on people's willing to "game" the system. Will you be maxing out the in day adjustment period in the same way as if it were a test?

Well I've just put the oven on and will get the ironing done afterwards. I like these as it makes me do the ironing! To get paid to do the ironing is brilliant.

Raxiel

Well it will still be cold, and the wind isn't likely to pick up much by tomorrow, so it stands to reason that if a session makes sense today, it will also make sense tomorrow.

I've signed up for tonight, we'll just eat a bit earlier. Won't be much in our adjustment period though, only appliance other than the oven we've any need for today is the dishwasher, and I already ran that while the sun was shining.

CanNeverThinkOfAUsername

I don't like using the oven much atm due to cost. But this afternoon i am cooking a nice Sunday Roast as a treat! (My cooker is elec)

foshank

I'm with EDF and had the opportunity to partake in 4 previous saving exercises. I've heard nothing from them about tonight's event. Have any other eDF customers had the invitation email?

razord

CanNeverThinkOfAUsername said:

I don't like using the oven much atm due to cost. But this afternoon i am cooking a nice Sunday Roast as a treat! (My cooker is elec)

Likewise! I went and bought a nice roasting joint this morning.