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March 2, 2023
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Energy costs no longer showing on my app

  • March 2, 2023
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Until a few days ago my OVO App displayed both my electricity usage in kWh and the cost of the energy used daily/monthly etc. I was able to toggle between kWh and £ as required, however this feature is no longer displayed and I can only view abbreviated information in kWh only.

I have re download the app on both my iPhone and iPad but to no avail. Is there a bug in the app?

As I live in a rural area with no gas supply, being able to monitor my usage costs is important. Unfortunately, my smart meter display stopped working many months ago, and despite numerous emails, sending photos and endless phone calls no replacement was forthcoming. 
 

Please help, I’m getting very fed-up now! Thank you. 😊

Best answer by Emmanuelle_OVO

Updated on 20/07/26 by Ben_OVO

Hey @TrishT,

 

Sorry for the issues you’re having,

 

There’s an update on this, customer usage data is not available on OVO website or the app. No other areas of the website are impacted. We’ve now added a banner on the website to advise customers. We’re working on this issue but think fixing it will take several hours as it is quite complicated, the next update will follow once we have more information about this issue. 

 

The issue outlined below has long since been fixed, and you can follow this guide which tells you how to view your usage data in both £’s and Kwh via the app

 

 

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Tim_OVO
OVO Staff
OVO Forum Legend
March 3, 2023

Hi @MikeySpark and thanks for flagging this. 

 

When you’re on the OVO app Usage section, it won’t show £ costs for the intra-day half hourly usage section. But it should for the intra-month daily usage and annual monthly usage. Can you confirm yours are excluding £ costs for all three? Is this the same for the online account

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Newcomer
March 3, 2023

I am also experiencing this. The cost functionality has been unavailable for about a week, only showing energy usage in kWh rather then the cost each day. 
 

I’ve tried contact OVO a few times through different forums but the wait time is too long. 

Rank 1
March 3, 2023

Hi @MikeySpark and thanks for flagging this. 

 

When you’re on the OVO app Usage section, it won’t show £ costs for the intra-day half hourly usage section. But it should for the intra-month daily usage and annual monthly usage. Can you confirm yours are excluding £ costs for all three? Is this the same for the online account

Yes, the intra-month daily usage and annual monthly usage costs etc are all not working, both on the app and on the website accessed using my iPhone, iPad or iMac. Up until a few days ago it was all perfect!

Rank 1
March 3, 2023

Oh yes, forgot to mention, but as I said in my original post the Smart Meter display stopped working months ago. I made numerous calls to try and get this sorted, often spending hours at a time dealing with it. Emails were also sent and photographs of the dead display unit and a replacement new one was promised but that was many, many months ago and nothing arrived.

The actual smart meter obviously works and transmits data back to OVO, but I have little opportunity to view the information. At the moment I’m relying on the Loop Energy app, but of course this has its limitations and isn’t entirely accurate.

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
March 4, 2023

There’s very little stock of replacement IHDs available. And if you had yours for over a year, you don’t usually qualify for a free replacement as the warranty is only one year.

However, I’ve got options you can check out.

Use these options and you can get a new IHD in about a week.

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Rank 1
March 4, 2023

There’s very little stock of replacement IHDs available. And if you had yours for over a year, you don’t usually qualify for a free replacement as the warranty is only one year.

However, I’ve got options you can check out.

Use these options and you can get a new IHD in about a week.

Than you. It was under a year old when it failed, but after trying night and day to get a replacement over a period of about six months I eventually gave up. That was about 18 months ago, but it would be nice just to get the app working again!

Jeffus
Rank 20
Rank 20
March 5, 2023

@MikeySpark

Could you post some screen shots of what you see on the

1. Website

2. App

in case one of us can spot anything obvious? 

Newcomer
March 8, 2023

I have the same problem. Some screenshots from app attached.

 

Don’t know if it is a coincidence but it happened just after I replied to a message asking if I wanted to be advised of any fixed price deals when they become available again.

 

Emmanuelle_OVO
Retired Moderator
Retired Moderator
March 9, 2023

Hey @MikeySpark and @EddieCC,

 

Sorry for the issues you’re having,

 

I wonder if these issues might be due to the price cap increases and energy price guarantee increases in April? @MikeySpark did you also recently select that you wanted to find out when fixed prices become available? 

 

I’d advise contacting Support who can raise this to our tech team.

 

Keep us posted with how you get on.

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Jeffus
Rank 20
Rank 20
March 9, 2023

Hi @MikeySpark , @EddieCC

I am just a customer like you. 

It is happening to multiple users currently potentially on both the website and app. We did a bit of diagnostic on this thread

Would you mind doing the same and post the results on this thread, just follow the questions on the thread. That would help check if you have the same issue. 

One of the moderators @Tim_OVO is checking internally with OVO staff to get some feedback.

If i spot any feedback i will post on this thread.