Greener Days EV Charging Octopoints

SuzeQStan

been charging our EV overnight on 🐙 ‘Greener Days Forecast’ for the last couple of months and today got our email from 🐙 saying we had charged 4 week long streak on greener days so received 80 octopoints - which equate to 10p - obviously aren’t doing it for the money 🤣 but it’s good knowing we are charging when the grid is the greenest.

just wondering if anyone else on here has had their greener days email from 🐙 today? - by my records we have actually done 8 weeks of greener days charging in a row so I didn’t know if they are usually a couple months behind?  

born_again

Started doing it mid September, still not received anything.
So gone back to charging during day & getting the benefit of whole house @ 7p.

Got to be more MSE 😶‍🌫️

SuzeQStan

That sounds good @born_again - how are you getting 7p per kWh during the day?

born_again

Intelligent Octopus tariff.

If you charge car during day & get slots allocated within peak period, you only pay off peak rate 7p for usage.

Get slots every time I want to charge during daytime.

SuzeQStan

I’m on IO as well - sadly EV is elsewhere during the day but we do load shift pretty much everything to 11:30pm-5:30am

Newbie_John

As sad as it sounds if you charge it during red days at 18-19 you'll get more points during winter session for not charging at that time.

Magnitio

Have been charging on Greener Days, but Octopus seems a bit random on whether it recognises this. I generally charge to a higher percentage on very green days and avoid the not-so-green days. This isn't easy with a small battery though.

SuzeQStan

born_again said:

Intelligent Octopus tariff.

If you charge car during day & get slots allocated within peak period, you only pay off peak rate 7p for usage.

Get slots every time I want to charge during daytime.

Need to pick your brains please @born_again

so when you get day time slots you can use the cheaper rate for everything in the house?  I was concerned to do that if we only got the cheaper rate for the EV usage. Sorry I know this is a naive question probably 😊

born_again

SuzeQStan said:

born_again said:

Intelligent Octopus tariff.

If you charge car during day & get slots allocated within peak period, you only pay off peak rate 7p for usage.

Get slots every time I want to charge during daytime.

Need to pick your brains please @born_again

so when you get day time slots you can use the cheaper rate for everything in the house?  I was concerned to do that if we only got the cheaper rate for the EV usage. Sorry I know this is a naive question probably 😊

Yes. Whole house usage. 
Example below of bill breakdown when daytime charging & slots given

time               Unit cost          kWh                Actual cost for period (pence)

SuzeQStan

Thank you - Another question @born_again - if you are given a time slot and the EV completes its charge prior to end of time slot - would household use still be charged at the lower rate?

born_again

Pretty sure it stops once car has finished charging. But never really checked that.