Power Move Winter Challenge Update

Thanks for the update. I might also be delayed in paying my bill! (Joke!).

All the best.

We joined in November and heard nothing since joining. When looking at acount and power move it says opted in

Do they have your correct email address? Are you getting other emails from OVO.

Plus have you checked your email spam folder? Such messages can sometimes trigger email automatic spam filters.

Hey @grainfoot,

Sorry to hear you’ve not had your progress email.

Please private message me with your name and email address and I’ll forward them on to the team. 

We didn't make February's target. However, we use Charge Anytime for our electric cars, and I notice that at weekends the Smart Charger sometimes turns on during the 4 to 7pm slot. This dominates usage - probably for the month when averaged out. So my question - does the accounting for Power Move disregard Charge Anytime usage? 

Hi , I have hit the last 3 targets under 11.5%. I have involved my daughter who lives with me and her 11 month old son. We have an agreement not to cook between 4-7 if possible,  as the oven would be a big burner of juice. I cook between 6.45 and 7.30 so 66 %of the power is after the deadline. Cut the lights as much as possible. Not always easy with the baby and bath time. But if everyone buys in, it's possible. Using led lighting strips is cheaper too.

I have no dishwasher, which I think could be a big burner too.

Thank heavens yesterday was a Sunday! I rarely watch TV on my old 37" non-smart Panasonic but I watched the UK Darts Open over the weekend. It was quite a shock to see my electricity usage had doubled! My normal usage from 4 to 7pm varies between 0.21 and 0.32 kwh. Yesterday it was 0.64 from a, for me on a Sunday, huge total for the day of 4.38. Ouch! (But I did enjoy watching the darts 🙂.) Other than the TV, nothing out of the norm was in use. The only time my daily usage goes above 3kwh is on laundry or bread baking days! I had no idea that the TV uses so much energy. Lesson learned! 

BTW.......my February average was 8.64% so well under target. 

I use a  remote thingy to turn off the TV and peripherals at the socket. It's off except for the odd occasion I want to watch something that I can't get with subtitles on my tablet. Does it still use Energy even when it's off? It's never on standby! 

I plugged a Tapo plug into another Tapo plug with the relay connected so that devices would be on.  It registered less than 1 watt which is in a way not useful.  I left it running like that for ages and there were on/off cycles of energy usage showing that it was basically using 0.5 watts which isn’t that bad.

@Emmanuelle_OVO For the first month of the Power Move challenge I didn’t get it because I think like a lot of people on here who complain that they fail it, basically I didn’t fully understand it’s not about reducing total use it’s about doing stuff outside the peak zone.  As soon as I twigged that then doing cooking and washing outside peak hours weekdays made it loads easier.  Sometimes even waiting for a washload ready on Sunday would be done Monday.

My girlfriend has asked sometimes if we can pack it in for a month but because she watches the awful big telly mentioned above in the evenings it really hasn’t been that much of a problem.

With a pointer from someone on here I can now grab half hourly readings from OVO’s own servers so I’ll write some javascript that should let people see their current and previous month’s peak time percentage.  It won’t be pretty but it’ll mean nobody has to put anything into a spreadsheet any more.  It won’t deal with bank holidays, though.  I can’t be faffed going that far.

Yeah, I’ve got some Lime power saving plugs and the relays stick sometimes.  I have to smash them against the floor so they work for a few more months.