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waltyboy
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Rank 8
April 2, 2024

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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Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 2, 2024

As mentioned many times, Bank Holidays are fully blacklisted and excluded. The challenge still has to “start” on the 1st of the month anyway for technical reasons.

This has been posted just about everywhere OVO controls.

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Rank 2
April 2, 2024

Well l didn’t miss out but never achieved the monthly ones of the challenge move. sometimes l achieved the hour ones they were easier at times. maybe l might be lucky this time round.

Rank 2
April 10, 2024

Sometimes it doesn’t make sense. can be confusing if one reads it . l wonder if we are going to get any events like the hour ones when you save by not using any appliances. It’s quite good that they have changed the times from 6 to 9.

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 10, 2024

National Grid ESO tends to pause the DFS Scheme that Power Move Plus runs on at this time of year, as it’s not needed as badly. It’ll probably return later this year though.

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Rank 2
April 10, 2024

Just have to wait and see. it could be who knows when it not so cold and sun is out don’t have to put on heating always go on later if gets cooler which is handy. maybe they don’t class bank holidays as well in the challenge.