Power Move Autumn Challenge

Here’s a tip for you Abby/OVO 

why not tell me before the autumn power move challenge starts, not over half way through it. 

Abby’s post is dated 29 September. OK, that’s only two days before the challenge started, but it was in plenty of time for anyone interested to join. We passed the halfway point a couple of days ago.

We learnt some time ago (sorry, I can’t remember where) that it was enough to have data for 14 weekdays in the month for performance to be assessed, so late joiners have a chance, too.

We did the Power Move in October. What a waste of time!

We switched everything off apart from the fridge. No cooking, washing or anything..

And still ended up with 13.6% of power use 4-7pm

Have concluded its impossible target to meet and given up!

Didnt do any of those things in October and still ended up with “13.6%” usage. It really is a con

@pauly113 you seem to be missing the point of Power Move, don't  worry you are not the first or only one.

The idea is NOT to reduce your electricity usage overall.

You should use the same - but use less of it between 4pm-7pm and MOVE it so that you use it at other times of the weekdays. (Weekends don't count).

If you don't normally use much electricity between 4-7, eg. if you cook on gas, then yes it will be a struggle to hit the 13.5% target.

A gentle nudge to move key usage out of peak hours is better than the other potential which is that usage will be charged like everything else and peak time usage will be much more expensive 

Or worse. IIRC Level 12 or possibly 17 of one of the emergency plans that National Grid has, is to basically blackout literally the entire country. I might be thinking of something else though, but I’m sure it was something on the cards last year...

What a shame @pauly113, 13.6% is just about as close as you can possibly get to 13.5% without actually hitting it! So very well done on that, closer than many of us on here.

For the November challenge that we’re now in the middle of, can I ask what tiny additional step you’ve considered taking to grab back that 0.1%? And is November so far just as close as you were for October?
 

Say you’re using 10kWh a day as an example, then by my maths (not my strongest suit!) 0.1% meant in October you only exceeded the target by 10 Wh over the 4-7 slot, which would be something like 3 Watts an hour, a minuscule amount. Or, put another way, you’d only need to shift say 80 Wh of usage from a weekend task into your weekday (but not 4-7, of course!) to “mask” that tiny excess in the 4-7 slot.

I’m also wondering whether the October change to GMT threw any tiny spanners into the works, so you can keep an eye out for any small trip hazards in Nov and Dec…did you have a go at the September incentive, for instance, which at 12.5% was a slightly harder bar.

Good luck with it, do let us know how your Nov figures so far compare…if they’re as close as October’s 13.6% then you’re in a pretty enviable position as far as the Nov target goes….and of course plenty of days still left in November to adjust stuff by small amounts….

We have given up now !

The 13.5% threshold is way too low

We had to sit in the dark and cold for a month just to get to 13.6%

For targets to be an incentive, they have to be realistic 

If just running our fridge between 4-7pm puts our house over the limit, we might as well all give up now!

We will just need to go to a loan shark to pay our Ovo bill

To the other contributors 

We did shift all our cooking, tv, washing, ironing, kettle use to after 7pm

It still didnt work 

The threshold needs to be 20%