Power Move Plus- How did everyone do?

I forgot to opt is so quite poor effort for me!

I did however try to avoid using energy as i thought i did opt in! 😂

My target was 0.1kWh, a fraction of yours! Interested to see what was achievable, I sat in the dark doing crosswords on my pre charged phone, with no central heating and the fridge freezer turned off. 

I reckon it has possibly earned me 18p max.

Guess what, I won't consider signing up to an event between 4-7pm again!

Did you manage your 0.5kWh target?

@GillO was yours from 4pm to 7pm? Mine was 5pm to 6pm and the first half hour I achieved 0.3 and  0.5 I think so probably the first half hour but not to sure about the last half hour.

The PM+event was 5-6pm like you. But my usage between 4-7pm is so low it doesn't matter which hour they choose between those times, I'll not be tempted to join in.

Perhaps they should choose 7-8pm when we all rush to put the kettle and oven on!!

Oops, giving them ideas.....

My target was 0.1kwh, and if i had only the basics on like overnight im either 0.03 or 0.04 kwh for half an hour.

So i had just that on, lit a candle and had a torch and did a couple of crosswords and just seen my daily stats and it was as predicted 0.07kwh for 5-6pm.  I couldnt have made it any less without turning power off completely.

Now await the email of what they will pay me. By my reckoning 9p! Its the principle of it, but would be interested on figures of what was saved for this hour drilled down to say 2kw and under in 0.1kwh targets, because i bet its our power conscious group that did it for very little reward. Anyone dropping 5kw over the hour is gaining £15 which is what we are earning for the whole weekdays in a month. I think a % target would have been better, particularly for low users.

@GillO 7 - 8 pm doesnt make much diff to me generally 0.06 or 0.07kwh for half an hr. I do my dinner in the middle of the day but that varies on which hour i have it. Like im just going to cook it now, whereas yesterday i cooked at 12.

I didn't bother opting in - waste of time. 

When do you think we can expect an email telling us how we did?

As I'm a subscriber to Power Move I've already reduced my electricity useage between between 4:00 and 7:00 pm to a minimal level. To be given a PM+ target of 0.2kWh reduction in electricity useage on one day and for one hour appeared to me to be akin to being a very bad joke. Nonetheless, and soley as an experiment, I signed up to it.

I turned off my central heating pump, my fridge/freezer, my LED lighting but kept my desktop computer running though with the monitor switched off. I don't have a laptop or smartphone. An hour spent in the dark and for what? A few pennies, that's what!

Checking my useage earlier today I saw that in the two designated half hour periods my electricity useage was 0.06 and 0.07 kWh. Given that useage, I can anticipate a reward of a few pennies.

Given that this is my first experience of PM+ I've really got to say that it gives every appearance of being a waste of my time and for very, very little reward.

I suppose that a lot will depend upon future challenges to be made but if they are anything like this one I shall certainly not being opting in to them.

I’m hoping I earned my 30p with a target of 0.1kWh:
  

  
[I turned everything off, then wrapped up warm and settled down to read with a little rechargeable LED reading light. I nodded off 😴 and didn’t wake up until 6:30, hence 0 kWh for an extra half hour.]

Because the page rounds figures to two decimal places, ‘0 kWh’ means ‘< 0.005 kWh’.