Delay in Power Move results and credit

The idea is to move away your electricity use from 4-7pm to another time during the same day. In other words, during the 4-7pm time it should be no more than 12% of your daily use. Weekends are counted slightly differently. 

I do. I got a TATSUJIN portable gas stove with side loading canisters. I take a 10 mile/3 hr walk during peak period and gas cook after 7pm winter, 9pm summer. Still only using less than 2 kWh per day. I guess that would put me in the lowest users group. Still hitting the full PM target every time. I've been able to meet the PM target by shifting other usage.

Is anyone still waiting for their power move to be added/deducted from their bill? I had £15 on the app but only my £3 has been deducted from power move flex 

I have had the power up/ power down credit added to current bill although no email.to say which day(s) i earnt it from, however,  the Power Move i think goes on next bill.

Personally, I find the whole accounts system tricky to track. I have power move, charge anytime and heat pump plus. My bill runs from the 11th to the 10th of the month, but the credits run on the basis of the last calendar month. Also sometimes it seems that the heat pump plus data is not credited on time to meet the deadline for the monthly bill. It generally works out eventually. Where it falls down is if, as has happened to me, your smart meter or car charger stop communicating for a period. You don’t realise this has happened until you get the bill. There is also no way that I can see of knowing how much heat pump credit you are accumulating through the month as you can with charge anytime, though even with that it just gives you the kWh or £ but not when they calculated so you cannot get a direct comparison on day by day basis with you local data.

as I say, generally it’s works out eventually, but it would be a lot easier if they reported each section with a date and time when they took the readings so you could see what period they were calculating on for each sub section.

My ‘power move credit’ is missing from  this months bill. Had email saying I had earned it. App says I achieved it too.

This has happened once before and it did get credited the following month. 
Very annoying as you have to remember to check. 
Wondering if I should email them but others have reported similar here so I will make a note and just hope it does appear.

Can anyone  tell me if power move includes gas or is it just electric ? 

That’s good to hear @Kall 

Very low electricity users should also be able to make the targets, as long as most of it is used outside of PM peak hours, it’s just more difficult to do and takes more thinking about.

Not everyone would want to go for a 3 hour walk everyday on cold dark (wet) winter nights, you could go to the pub but that would blow your PM reward in one night.

Of course the gas doesn’t count for PM at all so you could cook on gas whenever you like.
As long as you didn’t use an electric kettle too, and cooked by rechargable lighting or torchlight.

Set up a tent in the garden and go camping for 3 hours each weekday? (Only joking, but ….)😄

They do. 

Two things to note.

Firstly -
Power Move and Power Move Flex are different schemes with different rules and different rewards.

Second -
The (probable) reason fo the delay in getting the reward/credit on your bill.
Now that Power Move has moved into Beyond it is being administered slightly differently.

One change that could easily cause that delay in processing the credits to your billing could be due to them now checking back for any days that had missing data and including them if they can.
That’s a good thing for PM participants and means that as many days as possible can now be included, but those extra checks will take time.
(Hopefully they can automate them better and speed them up in future?).

However as it stands that change may mean that if your billing period end is towards the start of a new calendar month (in the first half of the month?) then the PM reward/credit for the  previous month may not make it in time for that bill, and so it will have to be credited on your next bill.

In the end that’s just due to PM running by calendar months, whereas you billing period doesn’t.