Power Move con

Hi @Sleepysusie Can I ask how much your monthly weekday percentage differed from the target 13.5%?

If it wasn’t wildly out, there are some good suggestions elsewhere in the forum about tweaking things a bit for the Nov and Dec incentives.  Sounds like you’ve already got a head start with being out at work between 4 and 7?

Best wishes, let us know what you think…

It isn't really a 'con' but if you're a low user of grid electricity anyway it is proportionally much harder to hit the target use 4-7pm. 

We use about 5-6kWh a day on average which really isn't much above what I'd consider to be what most households need just to get by. So even by shifting our usage we hit the target but only by about 1%. No idea how people are getting scores like 3-7%. 

Yes, it was 13.85%

It is not a con as there are many of us who do achieve every month.

This is a scheme to reduce usage at a particular time when demand is high. It is not a scheme that will suit everyone especially those who have low general usage, it is more suitable to households who have high usage and can move some of that usage out of peak times to help reduce the demand at that time.

It is a shame that scheme doesn't work for you but there are a wide range of schemes out there with many different providers which are aimed at different kind of users. 

I have economy 10 heating, 5 hours during the night and 5 hours split into two during the day and evening. September I received £15 credit, but then my heating wasn’t on….Storage heaters cannot be switched on and off like gas central heating. So, perhaps it’s that. 

It's not a con, I've managed to hit the target every month since I signed up. I have an electric shower which I either use in the morning or after 7pm (when I'm on nightshift). I've also started eating my "evening" meal at 4ish so I'm actually preparing it from 3:30 onwards. I've always used my washing machine and dishwasher through the night or first thing in the morning so nothing"s changed there. Now that it's getting dark at 4pm though, I might struggle to hit the target. I sat in the dark for an hour the other night but I've decided that I definitely won't be doing that again, Power Move target or not.

I have economy 10 to run storage heating, I can’t switch them on and off like gas central heating.

of course switching off gas heating isn’t going to save much electricity.

@Sleepysusie

“have economy 10 heating, 5 hours during the night and 5 hours split into two during the day and evening. September I received £15 credit, but then my heating wasn’t on….Storage heaters cannot be switched on and off like gas central heating. So, perhaps it’s that. “

Could well be…the nighttime part shouldn’t affect the Power Move (actually it might even make your weekday 4-7 slot “look good” by comparison, but I wonder how much of your evening storage heating is set to run between 4 and 7? It would be good to switch any storage heating out of that (weekend) slot if you could, otherwise the rest of the Economy10 heating mightn’t impact on the Power Move?

Sorry, I meant of course shift economy out of that key weekday 4-7 slot!!

Doh!