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  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,152 Forumite
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    With export I earned £1.04 in points plus about 20p for the export
    Make £2025 in 2025
    Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
    Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%

    Make £2024 in 2024
    Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44
    Total £1410/£2024 70%

    Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023  128.8%




  • greenbee
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    Slinky said:
    With export I earned £1.04 in points plus about 20p for the export
    I did the same - £1.20. Without the export it would have been undetectable!
  • mmmmikey
    mmmmikey Posts: 2,394 Forumite
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    £2.06 for me, again using the battery without which any saving would be negligible 
  • SuzeQStan
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    £1.79 here w export battery 
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  • mmmmikey
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    Makes me wonder what percentage of the overall total comes from battery owners. On the one hand there are far fewer of us - on the other hand we're probably the only ones making worthwhile (albeit small) savings. Anyone want to guess?
  • chrisw
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    Son came in and made his tea while I was out walking the dog. 11p for me!
  • MattMattMattUK
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    mmmmikey said:
    Makes me wonder what percentage of the overall total comes from battery owners. On the one hand there are far fewer of us - on the other hand we're probably the only ones making worthwhile (albeit small) savings. Anyone want to guess?
    It would be interesting to see more detailed stats, most people can probably only shift a few kWh because that is all they normally use, battery users can possibly shift more, but many will normally be exporting in that window anyway as it is normally a peak export window. 
  • victor2
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    mmmmikey said:
    Makes me wonder what percentage of the overall total comes from battery owners. On the one hand there are far fewer of us - on the other hand we're probably the only ones making worthwhile (albeit small) savings. Anyone want to guess?

    I habve no hard facts to support your theory, but it makes a lot of sense. I must be one of many without panels or batteries, good old gas central heating, and the only way I can save is by ensuring no heavy use electrical appliances are active during the saving window. The potential rewards, and environmental benefit just aren't worth the effort, particularly when just shifting use to another time has zero environmental benefit.

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  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,495 Forumite
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    6p for me which isn't bad considering I only opted in because "why not", wasn't even at home and so did precisely nothing to actively cut down! 
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  • MeteredOut
    MeteredOut Posts: 3,300 Forumite
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    edited 14 January at 11:09AM
    My Smart Meter is currently not sending readings and I got

    "We don't know exactly how much power you saved in the session as we weren't able to get readings from your electricity meter – but we're giving you 200 Octopoints, (that's £0.25), the average received by all customers as a thank you for taking part!"

    I never actively changed anything during the session, but looking back at actual usage (I can see that in the Octopus app) it was actually around 2kWh lower than average so I lost 25p due the the SM not communicating :(
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