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Octopus saving sessions
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If saving 0.24 kWh a session is enough to get me a free hour (7KWh of car charging). Then I'm more than happy. As I do nothing different at all on a saving session. Only way to save more would be if I switched ALL power off.
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The "free hour" is the power you use above the normal usage of that hour based on the previous 10 days usage during that hour.
Is that correct?
Or is ALL the power you use during the hour completely free?
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Or is ALL the power you use during the hour completely free?
Per Octopus:
During a Weekend Happy Hour, all the electricity you use is free up to 16kWh (which is more than any normal home could use – it’s enough to light up a stadium!) Your standing charge is charged as normal.
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec / Fuse gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Kirk Hill Co-op member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 37 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.1 -
Why are we getting so many saving sessions at the moment?
Northern Lincolnshire. 7.8 kWp system, (4.2 kWwest facing panels , 3.6 kWeast facing), Solis inverters installed 2018, 5kW SSE facing system (shaded in afternoon) added in 2025 with Tesla PW3 battery, Mitsubishi SRK35ZS-S and SRK20ZS-S Wall Mounted A2A Heat Pumps, ex Nissan Leaf owner.0 -
No wind , gas is expensive .
4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed 5.07 + Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
CEC Email energyclub@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
During yesterday’s 8pm - 9pm saving session we had 14GW of wind generation but no imports - maybe that’s the problem.
Northern Lincolnshire. 7.8 kWp system, (4.2 kWwest facing panels , 3.6 kWeast facing), Solis inverters installed 2018, 5kW SSE facing system (shaded in afternoon) added in 2025 with Tesla PW3 battery, Mitsubishi SRK35ZS-S and SRK20ZS-S Wall Mounted A2A Heat Pumps, ex Nissan Leaf owner.0 -
Judging by the usual sources there's quite a lot of wind at the moment - enough to supply about a third of demand, and cause some curtailment in Scotland - but it seems to be dropping slowly, so I guess by this evening there'll be a need to burn some extra gas.
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec / Fuse gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Kirk Hill Co-op member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 37 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.0 -
I just saw agile is negative tomorrow between 11-1530 hmmmmm
4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed 5.07 + Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
CEC Email energyclub@moneysavingexpert.com0
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