Ready for the Power Move summer challenge?
Updated by Bradley_OVO on 19/07/2024
A reminder of how Power Move Summer Challenge works for customers:
To reach a level, you'll need to use 8.50% or less of your home's total electricity use during peak times (6pm to 9pm, Monday to Friday). You can do this by moving your non-essential electricity use to other times of the day or to the weekend. The less energy you use during peak hours, the more you'll earn.
The Power Move summer challenge is now open. If you’re signed up to the spring challenge, you’ll be auto-enrolled into the summer challenge. You don’t need to do anything - you’ll receive your welcome communication on 1 July. The summer challenge is slightly different to previous challenges. Let’s find out more!
The new challenge
The challenge is to use 8.50% or less of your home’s total electricity between 6pm and 9pm, Monday to Friday. Your reward? Up to £10 per month energy bill credit.
What’s changing?
Weekends count as off-peak!
From 1 July, the energy you use on weekends will count towards the challenge.
Weekends are less carbon-intensive for the UK’s energy grid* so there’s more chance to reduce our collective carbon footprint. So it’s a good time to avoid peak weekday hours.
Does anything change if weekends are included towards the challenge?
Some months, like August, have more weekend days than others. And since weekend energy use isn’t peak time (peak times are Monday to Friday either 4-7pm or 6-9pm), that could help bring down your average peak time use.
It might also mean the mid-month update shows you’re a little over or under your target, depending on when the weekends fall in that month.
How does OVO calculate if I've hit the monthly target if weekends are included?
Imagine your home uses 240 kilowatt hours (kWh) in the month and 12 kWh during peak hours (6pm to 9pm, Monday to Friday).
Here’s how we work out the peak use percentage: (12 kWh ÷ 240 kWh) x 100 = 5 %
This means your peak use would be 5% for that month. That means you’d earn a £10 reward in this challenge.
Join the Power Move challenge today!
*based on the average carbon intensity - https://carbonintensity.org.uk/
