Updated on 20/01/26 by Abby_OVO
Aye @chrispow1 I know exactly what you mean, it is easy to miss the bank holidays for Power Move…but at least that’s it for BH now except for those two Mondays yet to come in May (6th and 27th).
Did you miss out by much in the last Power Move @JNeve? Better luck this time, but remember it’s 6PM - 9PM this time around, and a lower maximum payout of £10 per month. Actually, forgetting about BH wouldn’t really impact much on your Power Move incentive %, as BH aren’t actually included in the calculations, just a shame to do washing or cooking or whatever on a BH that could have been done/prepared on a weekday. Better to forget about a BH than forget about a weekday! Did you get into the habit of checking your daily weekday half-hourly usage in your OVO account pages last time? If you do that every day or every few days it helps keep track of your peak hours usage before getting that mid-month email from OVO.
Lower electricity demand during peak hours will help, I think, now that we’re heading into warmer lighter evenings (hopefully!), so just one or two “heavy” tasks shifted into suitable weekday times from either the weekends (or BH!!) or from the peak hour slots themselves should make a big difference to that crucial % score.
All the best, let us know how you go over the rest of this week, as that’ll indicate how the month is likely to go for you. Ten pounds for the month might not sound a lot to some, but to my way of thinking it’s roughly 30 free kWh of electricity (or 100 kWh of gas)…
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