Does electricity use on the weekend count towards total usage for the month in the Power Move challenge?

No. Only Monday to Friday 

National and Bank Holidays don't count either which is good to know with Christmas and Boxing Day falling on Monday and Tuesday this year!

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There's a lot of disinformation about this from contributors which can make things confusing. Some customers seem to think the Power Move scheme is compulsory, one suggesting he would have to invent ways of increasing off peak consumption to meet the target and hoping the rewards would pay for his additional usage. Wow!!

Even if you are in the scheme, there are no penalties for not achieving the percentages.

Everyone needs to take a breath. These schemes are widespread amongst suppliers with the sole purpose of reducing demand on the grid during peak hours. Whether you get rewarded or not doesn't really matter to them. If everyone is frantically trying then they are achieving their goals.

If you're a customer however the a few pounds discount for three months really ain't worth having a nervous breakdown over!

Indeed. The whole idea of the scheme is NOT to deliberately waste ridiculous amounts of power all day and then plunge yourself into darkness at precisely 4pm. The idea of the scheme is merely to MOVE some of your existing heavy usage out of the 4pm to 7pm slot to other parts of the day.

By doing so correctly both within the intention, rules and spirit of OVO Power Move, meeting the targets is actually a piece of cake. Correctly moving that power will both increase your Off-Peak and decrease your Peak usage at the same time - which will significantly contribute to meeting the goal. It’s easier than you think!

I’m sorry to say this, but to those of you who are gaming the system… Shame on you.

This is taken from the FAQ:
 

I suppose it could be clearer: the peak-hour usage for all weekdays in the month is added together and compared to the total usage for all weekdays. The figures for each individual day aren’t important, although they are being used for illustrative purposes as I saw in today’s email about the success of the Summer challenge. You can’t, as I saw suggested somewhere, take the average of each day’s percentage to find the overall figure for the month.
 

As others have said, Mon to Fri and  not bank holidays.  When I tried before I came nowhere near the target. I've decided to move anything possible.from the weekends to Monday to Friday and see if that makes any difference. Last year wandering around in the dark and avoiding hot drinks just made me depressed

Please stop moving high use energy from the weekends to weekdays. The grid is as far as I can see much ‘greener’ at weekends ie there is less carbon emitted to create electricity. That’s the time we should be using washing machines etc rather than during the week. This morning, Sunday 28th October, electricity production is fantastically  low carbon. Check out regions on the National Grid ESO app. 

@juliamc 

If you visit Energy insights/carbon forecasts on the website you will see that there are many times during the week too when there are plenty of low usage periods available outside of the 4-7pm period. It is trying to organise cooking/running the washing machine/dishwasher etc during those weekday low usage periods that is the object of Power Move as I see it and OVO is prepared to reward customers for their efforts.