Octopus saving sessions

greenbee

Washing, tumble dryer, electric heating, topping up batteries discharged before the start of my 11am-1pm slots. Also turned on the heating as I thought it would be a good time to get the heat pump up and running as it probably needs to work hard to increase the flow temp fairly significantly - hopefully it'll be more efficient just maintaining it from now on. Looks like I used about 17.25 kWhs over the two hours.

Alnat1

My brother rang about half an hour into our 2 hour slot and I could hardly say go away, I need to use as much electricity as possible cos it's free 😫 (I was hoovering up leaves on the drive at the time, before hubby power washed car) He was on the phone for 40 minutes.

Realised later in the afternoon that I'd forgot to do the washer-dryer shuffle 😫

Something seems to go wrong every time I book in slots…….

StevieP21

We used one hour on Sunday using 12.6kwh. Using the hour before the Cosy rate starts means a 30.29p per kwh payout.

Two hours left in the pot.

Slinky

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82172941#Comment_82172941

I too forgot to do the washer dryer shuffle, but having my two hours as the start and end sessions, I discovered the mistake and was able to rectify it in the second hour. I think I also got more benefit from the oil filled heaters by having the sessions a couple of hours apart.

I've got 5 hours left, but only 2 weekends in which to use them.

debitcardmayhem

Monday 1800-1900 £230 BUT not zones 1,2,3,7 nor 11

E&OE bit difficult to read today😎

Edit 82 points despite me being in Eastern for DNO I am in Z12 according to DFS.

Apologies to @jackieblack out in Suffolk who is Z11 ☹️ no idea where the boundaries for 7/11 are from their map.

silverwhistle

Drat, reading here has reminded me that I didn't put the oil filled radiator on, although to be honest it's been so warm here in the south and I certainly have had the heating on yet. But I did have the tumble dryer going along with dishwasher and immersion and of course charged the car, and for once, as I'm on Agile, it was saving at a decent unit price!

NedS

82 points here, so I'm in. This will be the last session I need to guarantee 2 free hours for each remaining weekend through until 1st November.

debitcardmayhem

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82173370#Comment_82173370

Ditto here, mind you my best run on this series is 88points an amazing 11p, and yesterday I had to cancel 1 of my hours , would you believe too much sun, and not enough laundry , I used 1.02 kWh 🙄. Still you know what they say pennies makes pounds, lot of effort to save £1.

greenbee

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82173315#Comment_82173315

I remembered the oil filled radiators (not warm here in East Anglia - we've had north-east winds), and it was nice to have a day where there wasn't too much sun/low Agile pricing. TBH I generally join the powerdowns as a. they're at expensive times anyway and b. it's the right thing to do. But nice to get the bonus of some free energy.

I've got three happy hours left to use, but I'm not sure I'll export from the battery during the power downs anymore unless Agile has good overnight pricing, as I'm still working out what the heat pump is going to need.

QrizB

82 points here, so I'm in.

And me.

This will be the last session I need to guarantee 2 free hours for each remaining weekend through until 1st November.

I've already got four in the bag, so I'm only really playing for points!