Struggling to achieve Power Move target!

I've had my £15 each month so it does work. 

I wasn’t questioning yours, just my own, I can’t speak for yours

Well I am very disappointed too! I got an email from OVO this morning saying that they couldn’t get enough readings from my smart meter so they couldn’t get accurate readings for the month. But no explanation as to why they couldn’t get readings, as they were able to on a lot of the other days, and it’s not my fault!! Anyway I had already decided that I wasn’t going to continue with this scheme through the winter as I didn’t like sitting in the dark and cold between 4 and 7. Not worth it for £15 for me. 

I feel it's sad. I also need to use my electric in this cold spell. There should be a discount to all users anyway. But probably not

Definitely do NOT sit in the cold and dark.  I quite agree @Redfoot123 that it’s not worth doing that. Dangerous anyway apart from anything else.

Have you @chrisnash30 tried looking in your usage pages in your online OVO account? You should see your half-hourly figures for each of the days last month…you need at least 14 weekdays full of half-hourly readings (i.e. 48 each weekday) to qualify for the incentive. Pencil and paper job to add up the 4-7 usage readings (i.e. 6 per day) ideally for all of them or, say, just a week’s worth to get an idea of how you’ve done. Then divide that by the relevant 24 hour usage for those days to arrive at the percentage. Don’t forget to select electricity only for your usage (gas doesn’t count) and use kWh not the monetary usage.

Let us know how you get on, good luck…

The whole reason for the scheme is because demand is high at this time due to the large number of people who need to or chose to use a high level electricity between 4 and 7 (mainly cooking food). There is nothing wrong with using electricity (they say that the can cope with the high demand) you just won't benefit from this scheme.

Hi @Syd 

Welcome to the forum. 

I am just a customer like you.

What energy saving scam are you referring to ?

Lots of low use customers are reporting success every month with OVO Power Move which applies to electricity.

What gas scheme are you referring to?

And we thought doing all the power hungry things at the weekend. We will change tactics. Thank you 🤩 

HI

I think that if I boil 3 kettles during the day and have a shower outside the 4-7 block I would get my £15 simply because they are my biggest electric eaters but I havent checked that yet. However during the block I only have the fridge,freezer on. I use the ipad for TV and Radio and  use rechargable battery lights and  that gets me down to 5.6  = £15.

To check I click on usage, then electric, then day  and you can clearly see your numbers for the day before

Using less total energy between certain times for me to do this I would have to turn everything of as my total usage is so low