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Uswitch 25 hours free electricity

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  • lohr500
    lohr500 Posts: 1,451 Forumite
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    QrizB said:
    My account has updated.
    Weirdly, I've now got my earnings for the session on the 9th but not for the one on the 2nd, which is still showing as "calculating"!
    I've had something similar with the Energy saving events they were running earlier in the year. More recent events calculating before the previous ones. It all seems a bit hit and miss!!
  • my first two sessions are in now. A life changing 75p. This industry is horrific. 
    We've given you less than 1% back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Happy with my £13.91 for the 2 sessions, especially as we had a power cut. 
  • QrizB
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    my first two sessions are in now. A life changing 75p. This industry is horrific. 
    We've given you less than 1% back !
    If 75p is less than 1%, I'd like to know how you spent over £75 on electricity in two 5-hour sessions!
    £75 would be ~300 kWh, so you'd need to be drawing 30kW continuously - which is 125A at 240V.
    N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.
    2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 35 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.
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  • marcia_
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    £4.05 for 2 sessions whats the point 
  • QrizB said:
    my first two sessions are in now. A life changing 75p. This industry is horrific. 
    We've given you less than 1% back !
    If 75p is less than 1%, I'd like to know how you spent over £75 on electricity in two 5-hour sessions!
    £75 would be ~300 kWh, so you'd need to be drawing 30kW continuously - which is 125A at 240V.
    overall spend, jeez. Hence me saying the industry is horrific. They're acting like they are truly helping with some woohoos and yeehaws. While I yawn. I think I am gonna uninstall the app and forget about this nonsense.
  • And there's me happy with our £2.65 :lol:

    I read the terms, knew what I was agreeing to, it's free money (and in fact a bit of free extra money because they're paying at a higher rate than Agile costs us), I'll happily take it.
  • I’ve had about £2, but it’s money back for stuff I would have done anyway - if someone wants to refund me the cost of doing my washing etc, then they’re very welcome to! 
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  • QrizB
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    edited 16 November 2025 at 9:22AM
    My third session will be this afternoon. My first, from the 2nd, is *still* calculating but the second session on the 9th earned me £1.83.
    Today is likely to be similar.
    N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.
    2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 35 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.
    Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
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