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

Yes there are periods of low carbon emissions during the week, but the weekend is regularly low carbon. There used to be an energy company that gave a lower tariff on a Sunday, maybe OVO could do that. @Tim_OVO ??

I agree it makes no sense moving to they week days, but if I want to have any chance of benefitting from this I have to do my washing etc Mon to Friday. Take heart as I still use it off peak ie between midnight and 6 am. 

It’s really more those who deliberately waste power that I’m naming and shaming. Those who make a genuine effort to play fair don’t come under the same banner

[Not quite sure which planet you’re on, Julia, but yesterday was Sunday 29 October up here in the midlands … 🙂]

Just now (09:30 on 30 October), my region’s generation mix seems to be anything but green: 50% gas, 25% coal. 
  

It won’t get any greener until after midnight tonight, which means I should really stay dirty, postpone my morning shower and risk not meeting the PM target today. What would you advise?

Haha I read that as ‘not meeting the PM today’ !! Obv it wasn’t just the clocks that went back yesterday 🤦‍♀️ You could have had two showers yesterday…

Thank you everyone for your answers, it has cleared things up for me.

It’s a shame that the weekends are not included in overall usage, as the weekends are in general “greener” than weekdays. It’s unfortunate that the scheme inadvertently incentivise customers to move high usage activities away from these green weekend days.

Hey @ima,

The purpose of the scheme is to encourage customers to move their usage to times where the grid is greenest, away from peak times. The reason for this is we want to ease pressure on the grid so that less fossil fuels are burnt. Which is why the focus is on weekdays. 

We have a really fab FAQ page that explains the scheme in greater detail. 

Hi @Emmanuelle_OVO ,

I understand that the purpose is to incentivise customers to move to greener times. My point is that since weekends are in general greener than weekdays, it’s counterproductive to not have these days included in the overall usage.

If I need to do a lot of laundry, doing it on a weekday outside of peak hours will help me towards achieving the target. If I instead choose to do it on a weekend (which are in general greener), it will not help me towards the target.