Power Move- What is the point?

As a matter of interest what time do you eat? All fine if you’re home all day, but what about those of us who work. Also if everyone shifts their heavy usage, will that eventually lead to us then overloading the system thus having to change to another 3 hour slot. Perhaps have a rota system, change main meal times so they’re different every week. Main meal at breakfast one week, second week main meal at lunchtime, third week main meal in the evening. Hope our digestive systems can deal with it. I know mine couldn’t when I worked shifts for 30 years. Eating a main meal in the middle of the night on a weeks night shift, 8pm when I was on a weeks back shift and 6pm when I was on early shift. Thankfully I retire in September where I’ll be spending three months in warmer climes. 

Have a cooked breakfast and eat salad in the evening or cook earlier and keep it in a thermos.

Like many have said its NOTHING TO DO WITH REDUCING Usage, it's aimed at high usage users moving to outside peak times, that's the aim of power move. If you are a low usage house you will struggle and you'll struggle because it's NOT aimed at that type of user. 

We always meet the target, last month was around 8% peak time. We have an EV and its charged using ovo anytime ALWAYS out side of peak hours and it's our biggest user of electric in an all electric household everything else pales in to insignificance compared to the car. Last week the car used 66kwh and that was a low week, the next biggest demand was laundry at 24kwh. We try and avoid cooking between 4-7 and laundry is never done at peak times but for us the main thing is the EV.

I cannot understand why people post the same issue time after time.

“I have been away so have not used anything.”

“I sit in the cold and the dark.”

“I am a low user. What more do they want me to do?”

As @Blastoise186 keeps saying: The clue is in the name OVO Power Move, NOT OVO Power Reduce.

1: Read the T&Cs.

2: Read the FAQs.

3: Read other posts where this has been explained in great detail.

If you still have a genuine problem or query, go ahead and post. We will be happy to help.

For years we couldn't eat until 7.30pm because my husband was never home from work earlier.  When we retired I enjoyed eating at an earlier time but now we've joined power move we have adjusted again and eat after 7pm or often at 3.30 because we can now please ourselves. I've never eaten normal meals at conventional times so it's easy for me to adapt.  I too have been a shift worker for 40 years and there's nothing I enjoy more than curry in the morning ... who cares if its odd or not normal 

“…there's nothing I enjoy more than curry in the morning ... who cares if its odd or not normal”. Or indeed cold, as I well remember from when I were but a carefree callow youff…

Or indeed cold pizza! 🍕 😆

Why cold though,

Make a curry or beef or chicken stew, or anything similar before 4pm and put it in a thermos.

If you have a second thermos then you can actually cook pasta, rice, barley, or other grains in it, just add boiling water and leave for an hour or two with an occasional shake (google ‘thermos cooking’).

Serve them up whenever you like.

If you don't fancy the thermos cooked pasta/grains then oven chips only take 10-12 mins in an air fryer. Or slice potatoes about 3 mm or 4mm thick, put in a bowl and cover with boiling water (oops kettle use there) and microwave for 10 mins

That short use of the air fryer/microwave should be OK and not affect your percentage much.

I live alone and yesterday I did liver and onions (batch cooked earlier and the rest frozen) in one pyrex bowl, plate on top, sliced raw spuds and frozen mixed veg in a second bowl on top with boiling water - 12 mins in the microwave and my tea was ready at 6:15 while still staying under percentage because the main cooking (of the liver) was done earlier.

“ why cold” … Because often cold curry tastes so much better than hot … especially for breakfast!

We joined the power move scheme in the winter and did the best we could by avoiding as much electricity consumption during the peak hours. We are low consumers generally. Typical electric consumption is around 6kWh per day during the heating season. We achieved no rewards at all because there wasn’t much more we could have done. Background use that we can’t shut down pushed us outside the limits.

In May we shut down the oil boiler and activated the immersion heater. At this point of the year our electric consumption more or less doubles. The immersion timer is set for two 1 ½ hour periods a day. One at night, one mid afternoon. Of course, that changes the arithmetic and in May we achieved a reward under Power Move. This is daft. We get a reward for doubling our electric consumption.