How didn't I meet the Power Move target when I wasn't even at home for 2 weeks?

If you keep your fridge or freezer pretty full you can actually turn it off for a couple of hours with no degradation to the contents!  My appliance specs state that my combined fridge freezer contents will survive a 6 hour power cut as long as I keep the door closed!  I actually believe it as it takes almost that long to defrost it without assistance of a hairdryer! The only thing I no longer believe is the "frost free" claim. The manufacturers don't seem to have perfected that technology yet!

If you really want to beat it, get one  of those cheaper timer plugs and time something fairly heavy to come on for a couple of hours each day…………….🤖

The only month I failed was October when I was away for 17 days (only missed it by 0.06% - I wish I’d spent 2 minutes understanding what it was!). It’s harder to hit when you are away, because they want you to change patterns, and you can’t do that if you aren’t home!

Frost free is useless in a power cut, had one years ago, semi rural always getting power cuts, lots of food wasted. We didn’t even give the thing away, we took it to the local dump and got a proper fridge freezer that builds up ice and keeps food from thawing.

I am working away my house is empty yet they say I will not meet my power saving target on the email I just received so in other  words this is just a scam they are pulling off here 

Sigh… It’s not like we haven’t already answered this exact question hundreds of times...

This is NOT a scam. You’re simply not playing the game as intended.

To earn Power Move credits, you CANNOT just leave the house empty all month - you must move heavy usage out of peak slots and shift it into off-peak slots on the same day. Simply making all your usage all day flatline does not qualify because you didn’t MOVE any usage around.

The clue’s in the name: Power Move, not Power Shutdown.

I have been on holiday for the  whole of January. All that was connected was one fridge freezer and the wi fi for the ring doorbell. I have just been informed that I have hit the £6  target  not £12! ?? How can anyone hit the target are Ovo conning us?? 

Hey ​@BROWNJAY22,

I’ve moved your thread into this existing one as it’s a very similar conversation. You’ll find some answers to your questions here but to summarise them you need to shift usage in order to qualify for the rewards. If you go on holiday that wouldn’t be classed as shifting usage out of peak hours and we’d encourage you to consider this going into the new challenge for 2025. 

If you have any questions please let us know and we can find answers for you!