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March 11, 2025
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Power Move dashboard progress % - am I missing something?

Is anyone make sense of their progress %  shown on the Power Move dashboard (on the OVO app) since 1/3/25?  I keep a spreadsheet which has more or less agreed with the dashboard in the past but this month it’s quite a bit out.

Also, does anyone know when the % that’s updated on a Monday after 8pm, is that the % upto  midnight on the day before?

 

Thank you

 

 

 

Chris_OVO
Chris_OVOBest Answer
Community Manager
March 13, 2025

Hey all,

 

Just to answer a couple of points raised in the thread so far:

​@Nukecad is correct that the app currently reports progress weekly, and the team would like to provide daily updates in the future. This relates to ​@Firedog’s point about delays in data retrieval. Since the industry switched to half-hourly settlements, the team has been retrieving data later in the day to minimize non-communication issues due to missing data and reduce the overall system burden. They may push data retrieval back even further in the future, but for now, they are working with the current setup.

Renewable energy jokes never get old.

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Chris_OVO
Community Manager
Chris_OVOBest Answer
Community Manager
March 13, 2025

Hey all,

 

Just to answer a couple of points raised in the thread so far:

​@Nukecad is correct that the app currently reports progress weekly, and the team would like to provide daily updates in the future. This relates to ​@Firedog’s point about delays in data retrieval. Since the industry switched to half-hourly settlements, the team has been retrieving data later in the day to minimize non-communication issues due to missing data and reduce the overall system burden. They may push data retrieval back even further in the future, but for now, they are working with the current setup.

Renewable energy jokes never get old.
Firedog
Super User
Super User
March 14, 2025

[Apologies to ​@mcdermoc17 for diverting his thread off-course 🙏]

  

… delays in data retrieval. Since the industry switched to half-hourly settlements, the team has been retrieving data later in the day to minimize non-communication issues due to missing data and reduce the overall system burden. 
 

Sorry, ​@Chris_OVO  - which team are you referring to? 

I can understand that the introduction of MHHS might affect (read: delay) the flow of half-hourly data through the smart meter network, and I suppose your remark means that the PM people are making allowances. However, I don’t see why the retrieval of meter readings should be affected. Yesterday’s readings (for 2025-03-13 00:00:00) still hadn’t arrived when I checked at 00:55 this morning, nearly 25 hours later. 

 

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Nukecad
Super User
Super User
March 17, 2025

I think that I've now worked out just what the app is showing us for Power Move progress.

It's the percentage figure as it stood at the end of the Previous Friday.

This is mine this morning:

 

1 to 16 Mar - Thats inclusive, ie. the begining of the month to the end of the second Sunday.
They say that PM updates run Monday-Monday, March just happened to start on a Saturday.

3.8% - That was my percentage at the end of Friday 14th, the last working day of last week. (My spreadsheet says it was 3.86%)
So despite it saying 1 to 16 Mar this weekends usage (15th & 16th) isn't included yet.

12 entries - As advertised for  “3.01 to 4%”.

Next update: Monday (after 8pm) - They say PM runs Monday to Monday.
Although mine has already updated for last weeks usage - so not “after 8pm” unless they are going to add in this weekends usage later today?.
Maybe they update at different times for different people and everyone should be updated by 8pm at the latest?
(I’m not sure exactly when mine changed from the previous Fridays 6% to it’s current 3.8%, other than that it was sometime between last Thursday and this morning).

So at the moment if you want to watch your progress daily rather weekly then you will still have to do your own spreadsheet.

I said, Hey - Watts going on.
Rank 1
March 17, 2025

Thank you.

I agree with you.  My app agrees with my spreadsheet as of close of play Friday 14th too. It'll be interesting to see if it updates again this evening.

I'm still puzzled as to why the app and my spreadsheet didn't agree last Monday but at least the latest figures make sense. (I did triple check my spreadsheet).

johnr64
Newcomer
Newcomer
March 17, 2025

Hi All,

        I am completely confused, I used an average of 4.4% between 5pm - 7pm last month and received 11 entries into the prise draw 🙄, but also won: £2 energy credit, was this by chance or just to stop me from complaining 🤔.

Nukecad
Super User
Super User
March 17, 2025

It’s interesting that we haven’t heard here from anyone who didn’t win £2 in the draw.
(Unless I missed it).

We have heard from some who got the £10 for managing under 2%.

I had thought we would see a few shouts for anyone who hadn’t won anything in the draw.

(Maybe everyone won at least £2 - if so then that would tell you something about how many are currently taking part in Power Move).

I said, Hey - Watts going on.
Rank 3
March 19, 2025

I agree, the figure on Monday appears to be as at Friday.

And yes, I also “won” 2 quid.