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Power Move Flex Targets

  • May 6, 2024
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I am not very sure how to achieve this Power Move Flex. I just got my first Power Move Flex Task and it's to reduce usage during 6 pm to 8 pm. 

I am not sure how to achieve this. My usage during this period is 0.09 to 0.18 kWh. That's from my refrigerator, and may be some bulbs. There is nothing more to reduce here. 

 

 

 

And how exactly does this work? Am I supposed to reduce my usage from previous day or average of previous week? Or should I reduce it based on usage of the whole day? 

Best answer by Blastoise186

I see, thanks for the feedback! I’ll make sure this gets sent to the right people via the Forum Moderators.

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May 16, 2024

 

 

Great!! 

I am not doing that again. 

 

I basically switched off the breakers for most of my house. Basically one 7W Bulb running and £0 credit. 

I am done with Power Move Flex.

Emmanuelle_OVO
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Retired Moderator
May 17, 2024

Hey @sankarram90,

 

Sorry to hear this,

 

Do you have your half hourly data usage? If you have a copy of the times & dates where you were asked to shift your electricity activities into certain time slots & did so accordingly then it might be worth flagging to the team. 

 

How do the credit rewards work?

 

Power Down

For Power Down events, you're rewarded based on how much electricity you’d normally use. For example, if you normally use 0.6kWh of electricity between 5pm & 6pm, and during a Power Move Flex event you only use 0.4kWh, we’ll reward you for the 0.2 kWh you didn’t use. With a reward value of £1.25/kWh for example, you’d get £0.25.

Power Up

For Power Up events, you'll be rewarded for any kWhs of electricity you shift into the event times above 0 kWh. For example, let’s say you take part in a Power Up event between 10am & 11am, and you use 1.5 kWh of electricity – we’ll reward you for the 1.5 kWh you’ve used. And if the reward value is set at £0.29/kWh for example, that means you’d earn £0.44 – just for shifting your energy use to a time when there’s less demand for it.

 

 

I basically switched off the breakers for most of my house. Basically one 7W Bulb running and £0 credit. 

I am done with Power Move Flex.

 

The idea is to shift usage, were you switching your breakers off for the periods set out by the challenge? 

Renewable Energy? Big Fan.
Newcomer
May 23, 2024

The Power Up events would appear to be much simpler than Power Down as the baseline is zero. And yet, as I posted elsewhere, when I used nearly 9kwh in 1 power up slot where I typically have negligible use, the end of week report only registered that period as 0.18kwh.

My smart display had good signal to the meter at all times. Not sure where the disconnect is (someone suggested it was me being silly for moving off peak usage into power up but I don't think that's it... otherwise what's the incentive)