How is the Power Move flex base figure calculated?

12pm is midday, 12am is midnight. 

I don’t think I can be bothered with getting into an argument about this but how can 12am come immediately before 00:01am ?    

Isn’t it because 12am is on a 12 hour clock and 00:01 is on a 24 hour clock. By rights 12 noon shouldn’t be 12pm (post meridian) it should be 12m 🙃

I think it’s because midnight and noon are neither are neither am nor pm, they are as you say just “m” But if you are using 12 hour clock is 12 noon 12m or 0m ??

Best to use 24 hour clock which excludes the need for am or pm.  

12am comes immediately before 12:01am. 00:01 is 24 hour format, it doesn’t have “am” and “pm” part. Look at that this way - 12:00 and one second am (12h00m01sec) is after the midnight, therefore 12 midnight falls into “am” time period. We just not mentioning seconds. The same with 12pm. 

Noon is midday, the meridiem, so it can’t at the same time be post meridiem or, indeed, ante meridiem.

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According to the Crowdflex terms, the baseline against which consumption shifts are reckoned are AIUI:

• Weekday events: the average of the previous 10 weekday consumption figures for the same hours.
• Weekend events: the average of the previous 4 weekend day/bank holiday consumption figures for the same hours.

Today I was invited to take part in a Power Down (PD) event (08:00-09:00). This is exactly the same period as an earlier weekday PD event (21 November), which is one of the 10 working days before today. There was another day with a PD event (29 November), but at a different time.

In these circumstances, there are at least four possibilities:

1. The fact that an earlier event coincided time-wise is ignored. The baseline average is lower as a result, putting the customer at a disadvantage.
2. Days in the ten-day period with an event at the same time of day are excluded from the calculation. There will be fewer than 10 baseline days.
3. Days in the ten-day period with an event at any time of day are excluded from the calculation. There will be fewer than 10 baseline days.
4. The ten-day period is extended backwards to include ten non-event weekdays.  

I seem to remember reading that event days were excluded from the calculation, but I can’t find the reference now. Nor can I recall whether it was only days with events at the same time of day that were excluded, or any day on which an event took place, or whether days were added to bring the number of included baseline days up to ten. There’s also the question of whether ‘events’ in this case covers both types of event (PD and PU), or only events of the same type. 

This uncertainty makes it difficult to check OVO’s workings.  Could we get some clarity, please? ​@Ashley_OVO ?

Firedog,

In your second bullet point about Weekend Events, did you mean to say weekend day/ bank holiday rather than weekday/bank holiday ?

Of course I did, thanks! The evils of using c&p when you’re in energy-saving mode. I’ve done the edit.