House Batteries top at low night rate

That’s exactly what I did, with the sea creature! We have an EV so are able to get their Intelligent Go tariff. We were charging the battery (13.5 kW GivEnergy all in one) in the cheap overnight hours as well as the car if it needed it. As we also have a heat pump we’re running that from the GivEnergy. It lasted most of the day in spring and autumn but in the winter the heating used those 13.5 before the evenings so we imported from the grid then.

We now have solar so the battery is topped up from that during the sunny hours. 
There are now various schemes that take over the battery to charge and discharge and give a cash payback, but I haven’t investigated them yet. Axle Energy being one worth a look.

Hey ​@DFC202 

I’m glad so see juliamc has already stopped by with some helpful advice on their own experience with this, I hope you’ve found that helpful.

It’s actually unfortunately not something we offer at OVO any longer, so it will be tough going to find anyone who does this via OVO. Anyone who does charge their battery up overnight on cheap rates will now be with another supplier that does have this on offer, such as Octopus, like your neighbour and juliamc do.

Ive just started a 2 years fixed contract with OVO so I'm a little disappointed with you last paragraph. So there is nothing I can do about this for now. I could go full solar but that would probably be double the outlay and weather dependant. We had a good year this year but future well thats out of our hands

Its also a shame that a energy company is not promoting this sort of technology as surely its the way to go.

Have a look at Axle Energy. I don’t use it but it’s worth seeing if it would work for you. It depends on the make of your battery, but it doesn’t mean changing energy suppliers. 
There are several good explanations of it, eg this from Gary Does Solar.  https://youtu.be/IvMor9aUfhE?is=YU5lmMwtFht62_0n

​@Bradley_OVO hope it’s ok to include this link !