Power Move for low users

Yes use more electric outside of peak hours, the % of use inside peak hours will then be less. Tbh the amount of hassle you're taking I'm not sure if it's worth it. 

This scheme is not aimed at reducing usage overall but is about moving usage away from peak times when clean electricity can't cope and other more polluting methods will be needed.

Sadly this scheme does not benefit everyone as it is not a reduction scheme but a power move scheme.

You have cut down so much on your electricity usage, I applaud you for that but also understand you have a need to do it. 

I do not believe Power Move is achievable for low electricity users due to the way it is calculated, I have never achieved it as a low user either. Upping your usage outside the peak hours is not the aim as you stated in your post. Power Move Plus is a better option for low users as you get a personal target rather than a percentage of averages. The reward in financial terms is not high but you can achieve a little bit which helps. 

One thing you don’t mention is using a kettle. If you don’t already, make sure you don’t use the kettle between 4 and 7. We manage this by boiling the kettle before 4pm and filling a flask so we can have a cuppa at 5 or six. 
Also, because they only average the weekday usage, ensuring your washing machine and showers are on a weekday might make a difference. 
But yes, the less you use the more difficult it is to reach the target. 
Next month it looks like they are doing graded rewards with £15 only for those reaching 11.5% dropping to £6 for 13% and only £3 for 14%. On that scale you will at least get £3 for your efforts. 

best of luck

Maybe a heated throw would be good while you work.  You seem to be doing all you can.

Why do thing after 11pm - or am I missing something.

I sympathise. I have tried the same things as you. I got to “13.6%” before I gave up. Quite simply the 13.5% is unrealistically small.

It is pitched at a level to make everyone try to save electricity, but because its virtually unachievable (unless you use a lot of electricity outside the 4-7pm slot) it can’t be done.

So it saves power for the peak usage for the National Grid, but pays out next to nothing to the hard pressed consumers.

It is essentially a con

Can you share some figures on monthly kwh usage so we can do the math and tell you what you need to use? With such low use, I assume £15 is a relatively large % of your total bill. 

Monthly kwh use?

Background energy use? - kW/Watts

Hi there,

      The techniques I use to drop my usage for just the required hour are:

1. Make sure laptop is charged up beforehand, then unplug it.
2. Turn the thermostat on the fridge (and freezer) down (i.e. to a higher number) for an hour beforehand, and then turn it back to normal  just before the period starts, so that it doesn’t need to come on for an hour. 
3. I do the same for the CH, but that doesn’t apply to you, but suggest you do heat the room a little using you electric heater before the start, so you don’t need to use it for the hour.
4. Turn the tele off, and watch something on my laptop, like BBCi or Sky News.
5. Use candles and a torch.
6. If you if have to leave on any lights, make sure that they are the modern LED, or fluorescent ones and not the old tungsten ones.

Using these techniques I can drop my usage by something like 95%, but only for an hour!!!  I use the Smartmeter to check this is working; I can get down to 30W or so, from my usual 500W plus.  Suggest you use yours to measure what each of your devices is actually using.  I have always managed to get some money for Power Move Plus events, but have never managed to achieve the Power Move targets, because I am a fairly low user, and have little demand that I can move.

    Rgds,

           Steve

I don't believe it is a con. It is aimed at people who use average or more electricity to get them to move their use and reduce carbon foot print. 

We can't reduce our usage any more due to work (our daughter works outside 7 days a week and her dog goes with her and is washed every day so produces a lot of washing between them) and a medical condition where we need the house well heated. But we can move when we do the washing and drying to during the day. 

We see this as helping the environment something we can't do by reducing our usage and helping us pay the bills a little. 

The two statements are a dichotomy.