Nonsensical target for Power Move Plus

Hi @Lizziekent 

Sorry to see you are still struggling to understand.

It doesn't put ovo in a bad light at all.

Because you have no usage so you have nothing to save by moving usage so you can't earn any money.

I am not sure what more anyone can do to try and explain the schemes but I will keep trying to help you as it is important that everyone understands.

Oh, really!

Funny how OVO how now calculated that I, like a number of here, have early…...9p….Yes,  a whole 9p. That's it for me.  I'll live with the gratefully received apology and compensation for the errors that OVO made initially with the scheme and my account, and now the 9p credit.  The whole promotion is not worth bothering about.

FWIW those who try to treat OVO Power Move and/or Power Move Plus as a get rich quick scheme will be sorely disappointed - that’s not the idea here.

The real idea is to balance the grid and encourage people to be more flexible in their usage patterns. Doing that long term reduces grid pressure and - could potentially - lead to lower bills overall.

Just received an email from OVO to say that we didn’t achieve the Power Move Plus target for 5-6pm on Tuesday 12 December: this in spite of the fact that no one was home; the thermostat was set to Eco (9.5c); and so the only energy being consumed was by appliances that were “off” but not switched off at the mains.

There is no way we could have consumed less energy. This “challenge” just feels like a massive con and IMO is damaging OVO’s reputation and risking my loyalty to them as a trusted energy supplier. (Even when we do hit the target, we earn a matter of pence...)

Yes and today OfGem say we’ll pay extra every month now due to 3bn debt the energy companies have to recover due to people not being able to afford the energy prices. Please note I slightly altered that because they just said people who don’t pay which we all know is wrong. People cannot afford to pay due to what’s going on in the world but again they’ll blame Russia or Isreal or some other nonsense to deflect blame from our own Government 

The targets are not set by OVO per se. They’re set by National Grid ESO if memory serves.

The fact remains that in the UK we generate enough energy for all UK households. We then sell it all off and buy it back at vastly inflated prices. It’s been happening for years and is public knowledge but for some reason the public are happy to be shafted 

It’s generation required at peak times that’s the clue here and exactly what PMP is all about. 
These events at present are simply tests rather than being needed but they are in preparation for if there was a need to reduce peak demand .. or you could have power cuts enforced 

No, it’s about the government doing what they always do and the public accepting it because they think it’s right. It’s not right. If a third of the population of the UK who pay energy bills actually done some research into this and then if a third of those chose to do something about it we could start on a proper path to reduce our costs. OfGem hike the price, the government agree and the public bend over 

Sorry @superted_76 but you have no idea