Octopus Saving Session

masonic

millie said:

I have had an email from Octopus stating I am one of a small handful of customers whose readings they could not retrieve for 23rd January so they have given me £1.74. According to them that is the average earnings. I can see the 30 minute readings on my account, so is it worth asking them to look again.

Do you have any gaps in your half hourly data when you load via Guy Lipman's site? https://energy.guylipman.com/sm/admin?source=octopus

millie

masonic said:

millie said:

I have had an email from Octopus stating I am one of a small handful of customers whose readings they could not retrieve for 23rd January so they have given me £1.74. According to them that is the average earnings. I can see the 30 minute readings on my account, so is it worth asking them to look again.

Do you have any gaps in your half hourly data when you load via Guy Lipman's site? https://energy.guylipman.com/sm/admin?source=octopus

Thanks for the link yes it does show my usage with no gaps in the half hourly data

Cirrus1

Many thanks for the above details. 

I’ve had a look through my granular data and there is 20-30kW above base load I could theoretically shift. I’m a high electricity user and on an EV tariff for my car.
My tariff has an off-peak component and a peak one. The peak is more than 4 times the price of the off-peak period. If I were to suddenly shift most of my off-peak usage to a 12:30 to 15:30 (peak) time slot for 10 days, I would barely break even and it would be too stressful.
The off-peak starts at 23:30 which is when car charging, the dishwasher etc start. The rest of the peak period is taken up with base load and a small amount above for tv, hifi etc. There just is nothing left to shift as it has all gone already. I would only save 1.5 kW in the saving session if everything were off (not happening).

I would be very interested if other people on EV tariffs get payment from these sessions.

peter3hg

Cirrus1 said:

Many thanks for the above details. 

I’ve had a look through my granular data and there is 20-30kW above base load I could theoretically shift. I’m a high electricity user and on an EV tariff for my car.
My tariff has an off-peak component and a peak one. The peak is more than 4 times the price of the off-peak period. If I were to suddenly shift most of my off-peak usage to a 12:30 to 15:30 (peak) time slot for 10 days, I would barely break even and it would be too stressful.
The off-peak starts at 23:30 which is when car charging, the dishwasher etc start. The rest of the peak period is taken up with base load and a small amount above for tv, hifi etc. There just is nothing left to shift as it has all gone already. I would only save 1.5 kW in the saving session if everything were off (not happening).

I would be very interested if other people on EV tariffs get payment from these sessions.

You don't want to shift it for 10 days, just the day of the actual saving session. The time period to move your load in to is between 4 hours and 1 hour before the start of that days session.

k_man

It is quite likely that the current in day adjustment calculation will be amended following the end of this testing period.

masonic

millie said:

masonic said:

millie said:

I have had an email from Octopus stating I am one of a small handful of customers whose readings they could not retrieve for 23rd January so they have given me £1.74. According to them that is the average earnings. I can see the 30 minute readings on my account, so is it worth asking them to look again.

Do you have any gaps in your half hourly data when you load via Guy Lipman's site? https://energy.guylipman.com/sm/admin?source=octopus

Thanks for the link yes it does show my usage with no gaps in the half hourly data

Then it would be worth querying why they believe there is any missing data.

gadgetmind

Cirrus1 said:

I would be very interested if other people on EV tariffs get payment from these sessions.

I'm on Octopus Intelligent and have both EV and solar+batteries. I made £40 gross on the 23rd with around £10 to deduct for energy I used at peak rate rather than overnight. 

Lorian

Could be a test session for some tomorrow. More info around 14:30 today

razord

Another test tomorrow morning, 9-10am.

Lorian

Looks like it's all companies enrolled.