If you’re talking about Power Move Plus/DFS you can only be with one provider and have to commit to that one for the entire scheme this year. If you attempt to sign up with a second one, you’ll get ejected and banned from all of them for the rest of the year. This resets by the time the next scheme starts later this year though.
That is a bit barmy - there should be a way of detaching from one scheme then setting up with another.
Well Christmas Day and bank holidays not included. l achieved the last opt in l did. That was only an hour one. l try cutting down and not use certain appliances but not always can be done. and they add the credit to next bill.
Please let’s try not to mix up Power Move and Power Move Plus - they’re different schemes that work in different ways. The ‘opt-in one-hour’ challenges belong to Power Move Plus, but Trucker’s “running at 10% on 19th December when the email came through” remark indicates that he’s concerned about Power Move(PM).
That said, there may have been a change in the way the PM rewards are applied to bills. My December statement shows a credit of £15 that wasn’t there before the statement was issued on 5 January. I’ve no way of knowing whether this credit was for November ar December, but I suspect the latter. I would have expected November’s to appear on the online billing page sometime in early December, but it didn’t and I was resigned to the fact that I’d failed to earn a reward in November because of problems with missing data.
From the beginning, there has been a line in billing details labelled Power Move Promotion Credit (includes 5% VAT) with an amount of £0.00. This stays there unchanged, but once the reward has been earned and credited, it’s replaced by another line, higher up, reading only Power Move Promotion Credit. This may be because there are many customers whose billing period isn’t the calendar month, so there has to be a bit of jiggling around to fit monthly rewards into the right bill.
This isn’t the first change we’ve seen, and I’m sure it won’t be the last, especially when they eventually work out how to handle that 5% VAT properly - I’m not convinced that the current set-up is right.
Thought I didn't achieve target either but checked my pending bill today and £15 credit has been applied.
Recently considered opting out of new year's challenge because of tighter targets but I think I can still hit these without any further changes to usage and I might just be getting soft in my senior years but believe opting out would be a bit selfish.
Furthermore the scheme has encouraged me to look at other ways of using less energy and saving money. For example, as a Christmas present to myself I have swapped my ancient supplementary gas fire in the lounge for a modern, efficient, wall mounted electric fire which gives an instant heat boost on chilly mornings. The gas fire took an hour to provide the same heat.
This and other less radical measures such as keeping the fridge and freezer full (doesn't have to be food - I pack mine out with empty food storage containers if necessary), switching off appliances at socket and not leaving on standby, all adds up to savings however small.
PS. Good job Blastoise for spotting the spam foreign language posts. This guy (or bot) is a nuisance and I've come across him several times on other forums and in direct emails and have added him to my list of spammers.
Got the email this morning and it says I achieved 8.77% for December.
The £15 had been showing on my online account for a few days already.
My own calculation spreadsheet says 9.88% so a whole percentage point+ higher than OVO’s and whilst mine is normally slightly higher we are usually much closer that that.
(My data does have one day missing on 27 Dec, but that shouldn’t make a whole point difference, time to double check my spreadsheet the BH’s being blank days may have thrown something).
As for changing habits, I’ve noticed that I now glance at the time when thinking of switching the kettle on for a cuppa.
To me that is a part of the long term aim of Power Move, and why it runs over months and not just spot-targets like the DFS (PM+) events.
These peak time energy saving habits that we get into for Power Move will no doubt contine even if Power Move is no longer rewarding us for them.
eg. If (when) your body gets used to eating meals outside of peak hours then that’s going to continue. Your body is still going to want to eat at the time it has got used to being fed.
(That’s something that night shift workers know about, your body gets used to doing things at different hours).
The same with what day/time you run the washing machine, etc. things become habits over time.
Just started a new topic called "December Power Move calculated incorrectly" as it seems there are some errors in the system.
In my case, it looks like Boxing Day was included as a normal Mon-Fri instead of it being counted as a bank holiday, as that is the only way I can get my spreadsheet to match their email number when they told me we hadn't met the target.
I also went up a point this month but I bought a new laptop and it arrived at 3.45pm on Thursday and there was no way I was waiting until 7pm to charge it up and play!!!!! Luckily I was still at 7.87%.
Hey all,
We’re sorry to hear some of you have had emails to let you know you didn’t meet the recent Power Move target.
We’ve had a reported issue from the Power Move team where Boxing Day was included in the calculations when it shouldn’t have been.
The team is currently working on getting corrected emails out to everyone impacted by this error. You’ll soon receive an email with an updated % and an explanation of the issue. (Please note, this does not mean that all recalculations will now meet target where they failed previously).
We’ll keep this answer updated with anything further from the team.
