Power move plus- Low target

Received this yesterday, my target seems very low. Can someone explain how they came to this calculation.

 

Ours is 0.3 and I totally don't understand how it is worked out and how we are supposed earn anything 

Is it worked out on your average consumption? If you are already a low energy user the percentage will be lower for you. 

I would be interested also. I am already on Powermove, so consumption between 4pm and 7pm is already minimal.

Broken2 can you clarify average consumption. Is average consumption over 24Hrs or average consumption between 4 and 7pm

 0.5kWh  ?  Try getting 1KwH below my 0.1kWh target.  😀

In my case, the target probably just happened to be my highest usage in that hour over the past couple of weeks. The thinking behind that could be ‘if you could get below that on most other days, then you could do it every day’. It makes you think about why it was so high on the high days and lead to a change in behaviour.

@cliveyb You’re not being asked to get 1kWh below anything. You’re being asked just to get below your target. The reward won’t be worth bothering about, but the thinking might just make a difference. 

I got a target of 0.2 kWh. I'm presuming that any reward earned will be on a pro-rata basis so, if I achieve that target, my anticipated reward would be only 60 pence. Not exactly a king's ransom, is it?! Since being on Power Move I've already cut my electricity usage between 16:00 and 19:00 to minimal levels. To take it any lower would mean turning the fridge/freezer off along with my desktop computer (for radio and TV), central heating pump and lighting. I'll be damned if I'm ggoing to have to exist by candlelight though.

I've opted in to this Power Move Plus challenge purely as an experiment and to see how it pans out. But, and it's a BIG but, I'm somewhat sceptical as to how worthwhile or rewarding I will find it to be. As it stands, it only appears to be worthwhile for people who are users of larger amounts electricity than me. I suppose that much might depend on the nature and timing of future challenges.

Not sure about the times exactly, as some have already highlighted since our respective posts it does seem that being a low user in general as well as the specific times of 4-7 pm will mean less of a return.
 

As I’m sure most of us appreciate the big idea has always been to get as many consumers as possible to switch usage to alleviate peak demand. I appreciate that from a national perspective the more of us who adopt balanced consumption throughout the day the less likely it is that we need to fire up more carbon intensive sources of electricity generation for peak demand.
 

I do understand how a decent financial incentive encourages people to remain on board. From our perspective we have reached a point where the only option left open for us to cut usage any further is to switch off everything to achieve any return worth mentioning. As others have said this is a step too far.
 

We will abide by the principles as we find it has provided a focus for us to rethink how we use what is an expensive resource in more ways than one.

Mine is 0.1 which is even worse already only use t.v. between 4 to 7 as I am already on power move

I'm also on Power Move so I think the only way I could conceivably reach this is to turn my electric off for an hour and I'm definitely not going that for £3.

Just to depress you even more, you may find that the TV is a real power pig - use your IHD to check just how much power it’s drawing. An alternative is to use a laptop on battery to stream the programs you can’t miss: a router might use only 1% of what a TV can guzzle.