EDF Sunday Saver

suzanne_thomas

"Shift your electricity usage from Monday to Friday away from peak times (4pm-7pm) – to get free electricity the following Sunday."

Average peak electricity usage at end of week	Free hours of electricity earned	Free electricity times the following Sunday
19.3% (no change)	0	N/A
17.4%	4	8am - midday
15.5%	8	8am - 4pm
13.5%	12	8am - 8pm
11.600000000000001% (target achieved)	16 (maximum reward)	8am - midnight

suzanne_thomas

Has anyone else signed up?

On Monday it was saying that I somehow didn't get on it, so I didn't reduce my electricity.
On Tuesday a chart appeared saying I was above my start point?! So then I turned most things off Tuesday and now I'm still above?!

Is anyone's working?

Starlight101

Do you only use electricity, or do you also use gas (or another fuel) for any heating or cooking?  

GosportArt

We've been doing this for a couple of months - September was great and we shifted enough to get a fair bit of free electricity on a Sunday but in October it's just not working.  I think the issue is that they are using our previous month to calculate how much to shift and expecting us to do better than September - which we can't do, we've shifted everything we can already, so we have no more wriggle room.   So far in October we are doing worse!  I can't help feeling there is a fundamental flaw in their plan....    We are about to give up before the real energy squeeze in the winter, which isn't quite what they've intended I bet! 

drdpj

I suspect the trick is to consider it "free energy on Sundays for 6 months of the year" and shift your usage to 4pm-7pm the month after you've successfully done it to make it easier the month after. If they just base it on the previous month it's going to be impossible to maintain.

suzanne_thomas

This is all very interesting! 

@Starlight101 - I have gas for heating but the rest is electric.

@GosportArt - I've been wondering this! Mine will also be impossible to beat next month, which I agree defeats the point. Maybe I need to be using more than I am to get a steady Sunday freebie! 

@drdpj - Yes, this is sounding like what's likely to happen - I'm going to have to get better at balancing the EDF magical colourful wheel of confusion!!

bongo2202

I have recently signed up to this and had a couple of weeks where we got the free energy on the Sunday but for 2 weeks when I wasn't even in the country and the household was empty it was deemed that I didn't manage to save any energy at all.  Have queried with EDF but keep getting sent around the houses, my EDF app clearly shows my usage over these 2 weeks was at its lowest but I'm now being told that the meter might lose connection so readings can't be taken.  So sounds a great scheme but in all honesty I feel they can manipulate to see fit, has anyone else had weeks where they thought they had hit the mark but no savings

michaels

The EDF usage on the app is showing I spent £24 on Sunday that should have been free (my first free Sunday). Hopefully I will be billed correctly.....

My target was to reduce from 1.4% to 0.8%. not sure I can go any lower next month....

bongo2202

Well I just had my text yesterday to say I saved no energy last week despite my spend being again more or less at its lowest, it makes no sense at all.  To be fair I just had a credit back on my account for one of my sundays from previous weeks so something does happen.

Your target @michaels seems bonkers, mine at the moment is to reduce from 10.3% to 6.2% to get the full allocation

michaels

bongo2202 said:

Well I just had my text yesterday to say I saved no energy last week despite my spend being again more or less at its lowest, it makes no sense at all.  To be fair I just had a credit back on my account for one of my sundays from previous weeks so something does happen.

Your target @michaels seems bonkers, mine at the moment is to reduce from 10.3% to 6.2% to get the full allocation

Yeah, for context you probably need to know I have a battery (v2h using my EV) so my typical night rate usage is over 95%. My latest bill average cost per unit is 8.1p. Hoping to get that down to 5.6p by switching to Tomato in Jan.

Quite lucky as our annual usage may head towards 35000lwh

michaels

Epic fail - Today I had 12 hours of 'free' electricity so shifted night usage back to the day to save 7.5p per unit - but I got the usage completely wrong and used 12kwh more than the 33kwh fair usage allowance at 30p per unit so spent £2.82 whilst only saving to save £2.47