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  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,232 Forumite
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    3.50 alert just popped up from octopus
    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%




  • MattMattMattUK
    MattMattMattUK Posts: 11,618 Forumite
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    It has just pinged through on WhatsApp, timestamped 15:50.
  • MultiFuelBurner
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    edited 19 December 2023 at 4:53PM
    Testing out real life late notice scenarios is a part of it as explained by Octopus early on.

    National grid ESO DFS first thing 8am, Twitter alert second which triggered octo aid then whatsapp just received 1 hour 10 mins before event.

    This will test out Octopus servers with the increased traffic now from the WhatsApp message.
  • bristolleedsfan
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    edited 19 December 2023 at 5:10PM
    Took me an hour to opt in and that was before above mentioned  WhatsApp messages were sent out. (email 14.22)
  • MultiFuelBurner
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    bristolleedsfan said:
    Took me an hour to opt in and that was before above mentioned  WhatsApp messages were sent out.
    Twitter message arrived about 3pm so that may have produced the rush
  • MeteredOut
    MeteredOut Posts: 3,415 Forumite
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    edited 19 December 2023 at 5:24PM
    MultiFuelBurner said:
    Testing out real life late notice scenarios is a part of it as explained by Octopus early on.

    National grid ESO DFS first thing 8am, Twitter alert second which triggered octo aid then whatsapp just received 1 hour 10 mins before event.

    This will test out Octopus servers with the increased traffic now from the WhatsApp message.
    Yes, and also testing out customer responses. The email from Loop actually stated that

    "It's shorter notice than usual because National Grid ESO want to find out how responsive our customers can be. The grid has to balance every second of every day. The quicker Loop customers can respond, the better."
  • northernstar007
    northernstar007 Posts: 1,063 Forumite
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    been asked a hundred times but what happens with  full day missing data on savings days
  • bristolleedsfan
    bristolleedsfan Posts: 12,676 Forumite
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    northernstar007 said:
    been asked a hundred times but what happens with  full day missing data on savings days
     "No guarantee Octopus will be able to retrieve smart meter readings for every customer for any particular savings session within timescale Octopus update accounts with outcomes, in those instances Octopus have been giving customer Octopoints worth £1"
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,232 Forumite
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    1.92 kwh exported. With a bit of baseline credit for our non-use during that time we should get about £4.60, plus just under 30p for the export, which only cost about 36p to import, even allowing for circular losses.
    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%




  • SuzeQStan
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    Slinky said:
    But those of us who can export need to have something to export.  On a grotty day like today that has to be imported energy. Our panels have produced 0.2kwh today.
    Exactly this👆🏻
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