Octopus Saving sessions 2023

Meatballs

michaels said:

Mikeyboy01443 said:

Netexporter said:

But, there are many different ways in reaching that goal, especially with a solar system already installed and potentially needing to marry up a possible previous solar only inverter with the the requirements needed to allow the addition of battery storage to that system.... or is it a replacement / or additional inverter requirement etc etc with all the FIT payment conditions to be mindful of for those who currently receive such benefits.

The simplest way is to fit a Givenergy All-in-One battery. It imports and exports at 6kW. It has its own inverter built in. In addition it has gateway unit that connects to existing solar and can also feed a car charger. In the event of a power cut it disconnects from the mains in 20 milliseconds and you can still run the house appliances up to 6kW total. (12 or 18kW if you add extra battery units - the maximum one gateway will handle.

It is essentially the smae specification as the Tesla Powerwall but for a much lower cost, better availablity, and no Elon Musk.

Whats wrong with Elon 

It is a tricky one as I suspect their would have been no EV revolution without Tesla so is Elon a good enough reason for avoiding Tesla?  If they fail it will push back EV adoption much more than just the loss of Tesla vehicles.

My Nissan leaf wants to have words about your warped perspective 

Exiled_Tyke

BossBob said:

Never going to work for me as I use as little as possible during the peak rate, preferring to run off battery then, so I don’t have a history of consumption to save against. My battery doesn’t discharge to the grid so the only way octopus is going to work to my advantage is during any free electricity periods.

I'm in this situation too. My peak time use is pretty minimal 

EricMears

BossBob said:

Never going to work for me as I use as little as possible during the peak rate, preferring to run off battery then, so I don’t have a history of consumption to save against. My battery doesn’t discharge to the grid so the only way octopus is going to work to my advantage is during any free electricity periods.

Although in much the same position,  I'm hoping that having plugged car into charger at 5pm several times recently and mostly allocated IOG slots hence been allowed to charge immediately I may have some benefits accruing from not charging on saving session days.

michaels

Meatballs said:

michaels said:

Mikeyboy01443 said:

Netexporter said:

But, there are many different ways in reaching that goal, especially with a solar system already installed and potentially needing to marry up a possible previous solar only inverter with the the requirements needed to allow the addition of battery storage to that system.... or is it a replacement / or additional inverter requirement etc etc with all the FIT payment conditions to be mindful of for those who currently receive such benefits.

The simplest way is to fit a Givenergy All-in-One battery. It imports and exports at 6kW. It has its own inverter built in. In addition it has gateway unit that connects to existing solar and can also feed a car charger. In the event of a power cut it disconnects from the mains in 20 milliseconds and you can still run the house appliances up to 6kW total. (12 or 18kW if you add extra battery units - the maximum one gateway will handle.

It is essentially the smae specification as the Tesla Powerwall but for a much lower cost, better availablity, and no Elon Musk.

Whats wrong with Elon 

It is a tricky one as I suspect their would have been no EV revolution without Tesla so is Elon a good enough reason for avoiding Tesla?  If they fail it will push back EV adoption much more than just the loss of Tesla vehicles.

My Nissan leaf wants to have words about your warped perspective 

Wonderful cars though our (currently*) 3 Nissan Leafs are, I think they would still be niche had it not been for Tesla....

[*Would anyone be interested in a white 2019 n-conecta 40kwh just under 60k miles, 91% soh?.  Could come with a V2H unit although currently the only way to commission this would be via homebrew]

ispookie666

Saving sessions are not going to work for me. 
Although my export is with Octopus, it's got its own export account and for some reason it does not read automatically. Hopefully octopus will sort this out 

paul991

Think I saved enough to keep a few neighbours Christmas lights on, now there  LEDS

Exiled_Tyke

Has everybody here received credit for the sessions so far? I have three showing as still being calculated. 

Magnitio

Exiled_Tyke said:

Has everybody here received credit for the sessions so far? I have three showing as still being calculated. 

Received results for 29th. Waiting for 1st and 5th.

1961Nick

I got my £1.71 for the session on the 29th.

EricMears

Magnitio said:

Exiled_Tyke said:

Has everybody here received credit for the sessions so far? I have three showing as still being calculated. 

Received results for 29th. Waiting for 1st and 5th.

Same here.