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The 6-9 pm time is too long and is basically eating up the whole evening? If someone who works a regular job wants to get in this, they have to either skip dinner or start cooking after 9, which then delays sleep. 

You se m to be missing the point of Power Move. It's not to fit in with anyone personal usage pattern but to change people's usage pattern. As such it's looking kely to make you rethinking your energy use. If you can't avoid using electricity between 6pm and 9pm this is not for you. What I have seen ne is avoid using dishwasher and electric shower during peak times and install a battery storage system which I can use to reduce my electricity usage to zero if needed to hit the target.

Hope this helps

I’ve posted this on another thread associated with Power Move, but repeat here:

If I have a Smart Car charger, does the OVO accounting system know about this, and recognise that I am already taking a lot of electricity during off-peak, so I would automatically ‘win’?

The domestic peak hours are 6-9 in large part because that’s when many people are cooking their evening meals, that’s what makes them the hours with a high domestic energy usge.

And that’s the whole point of Power Move - to reduce that overall peak hour usage if you can by moving your own usage from those hours.

Not everybody can move their usage (not everybody wants to try).
So Power Move is not for them.

Which is fine, nobody is being forced to join Power Move if they don’t want to.

The idea of Power Move is to help reduce peak time energy use, and some users are happy to do that with no reward - the rewards that it can give are just an ‘extra’ to help encourage more people to at least try.

If you can’t take part in Power Move for whatever reason then you are not “losing” anything, you can’t lose something ‘extra’ that you never had in the first place.
(And even if you do take part nobody is guaranteed to meet target and get a reward each month).

as l said before we have our dinner between 8.30pm. that means cooking around 8.00pm. so l am not going to worry too much. l have other things to think about.

Well while I’d suggest that would only mean a move of 1 hour to do it after 9 that is of course entirely your choice to make.

Enjoy your meal whenever you choose to cook/eat it.

@Emmanuelle_OVO do bank holidays count as weekends, as in the energy used on those days will be used as part of the calculation?

I’m rewriting the automatic peak energy calculator and it’ll have an effect.  There isn’t a bank holiday until the end of August but I’d like to get it coded now.

Thanks.

Hey @Tron Burgundy 

I checked this with the Power Move team and they’ve confirmed Bank Holidays aren’t included in the calculations.

Hope this helps clear that up for you.🙂

Thanks.  I need to make double sure, though.  Does it mean the entire day for bank holidays isn’t used in calculations at all so the data for the entire day can be ignored?  Or is it not included in that it’s treated like a normal day now?

Hi @Tron Burgundy,

The team have said “Bank Holidays are not used in the calculation, they’re neither peak or off-peak.”

Hope this helps.