Power Move Calculation For September 2024

Is anyone else having trouble understanding what their Power Move ‘benefit’ will be in-month?

I have been adding up the daily figures available next-day through the App, but for the past 2 months the outturn email from Ovo has suggested a significantly different %-use in peak hours for the previous month (compared to the figure I get by adding the daily figures from the App up). On both occasions the discrepancy has had the effect of bumping me down a reward tier. 

Have others had a similar issue when trying to budget their electricity use late-month? And has anyone had the opposite experience where Ovo have made an error on the % that’s worked in your favour?

This is a useful read from @Firedog 

Hi l have decided to join the power move again. I don’t know what it involves but willing to give it ago. see what happens .

Thank you for this response. The calculations in my spreadsheet are accurate (I’ve just checked them again), leaving a discrepancy which is the equivalent of roughly two-days-worth of electricity usage in the ‘peak’ hours. The comment you posted from Firedog is illuminating and I suspect may provide the rationale for the discrepancy between OVO’s half-hourly records and their end-of-month calculation: the ‘peak hours’ may, routinely, extend for 10 minutes beyond the end of the ‘peak’ period. So if you routinely, say, switch on the washing machine, iron, kettle etc at the end of the ‘peak’ period OVO’s billing calculation may count these as being in the peak period. Let the user beware... 

@PowerMover2053 I must admit I gave the peak hours boundaries a bit of a margin just in case there was an error on those and missed the taget by a small amount. I hope that it works out better for you. We all like to succeed having put the effort in.

Last year I did say that the reward should be more graduated so that it wasn't an all or nothing situation. I doubt if it was what I had said but the scheme has evolved to be better for customers. It's good that people come on here to express an opinion or query results because these things do get put under the spotlight.

Peter

@JNeve Give it a go. See what happens. Just move whatever you reasonably can out of the peak into the non-peak hours.

You are clever in working your percentages. I can’t manage to do that I am just keeping in doing the same energy saving habits I did in the start. I have only been with this saving energy scheme a few weeks and hope it’s making a difference. I had an email saying I was on track to saving money.

Hey @PowerM0v3,

I’ve sent you a PM so that we can take a look at things for you. Keep an eye on your private messages.

The 2 decimal places from the account usage pages vs the 3 decimal places that the OVO calculation uses can make quite a difference over a month - or sometimes not much at all.

I use the 2-DP figures in my own spreadsheet  and at the month end it's been from exactly the same as OVOs up to 0.5% difference. (Up or down).

If you are on the borderline of a reward level then that 0.5% up or down can make the difference.