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Thanks for the update Tim. It may only be a tenner a month but it is still one third of our electricity bill for a month so is well worth having.

We are only low energy users but it is dead easy to get under the 12.5% and the mathematics of how to calculate it are easily understood even for an old git like me.

It's not just about the money though is it, if 20 million households just changed a few of their habits just think what could get achieved?

Thanks again for your efforts.

Len

Hi @Len Holbeche  I’d love to know as a fellow low user what you did, how you changed things to make it ‘dead easy’.  I struggled in the trial at first. although just made it. Then I started moving weekend use to weekday use outside of 4 - 7pm. Is that what you did?  Or do you have other tips and strategies that I can benefit from :) 

We live in a four bedroom house with gas heating and cooking.

At this time of the year we use about 2kwh of lecky per day.

We cook with gas and use an electric oven twice per week for baking bread.

We have no deep freeze only a fridge with a freeze box in the top and apart from this and the Internet thingy there is absolutely nothing on standby.

Washing machine 30degree 15min washes during the day. Three or four times per week.

We have an electric kettle for making tea and coffee but this is never used between 4 and 7pm.

During these times the only electricity we use is the digital radio and perhaps a light in the room we are sitting in.

It's simple really just turn stuff off and don't believe all the hype you read about deep freezes, micro waves, air fryers etc not using much electricity.

If there is a light showing and it is making a buzzing noise you are using electricity, either that or there is a wasp nest in your loft.

Just ask yourself a simple question. If you had to feed a meter with two bob coins would you have all this stuff chugging away in the background?

In truth we haven't had to change much we don't use a kettle between 4 and 7 and we don't watch the telly which is absolute rubbish anyway. We dont watch the news thereby not only saving electricity but our mental wellbeing as well.

Hope that helps?

Thanks for such a full break down of your method = and I love your descriptions :)

I have undercounter fridge & g=freezer, internet thingy but other than that I never have excess stuff on standby - I even unplug the door bell!  During the trial I used TV only or laptop on battery during the 4 - 7 curfew.  I found the only way to  achieve my target was to move things like washing, lawn mowing, power tool diy type stuff out of the weekend and in to M-F outside of 4- 7. (which as byproduct made my weekend nicer for me)  I’m a 40 degree washer so will try your 30 degree and see how I get on with that - thank you.  

Worth noting that the router for your internet needs to remain on 24/7. Bad things will happen if you keep power cycling it all the time. :)

They don’t take much juice though - I’ve got some of the most overpowered network kit in the UK and even that barely takes anything.

I wonder why you say this? The usual reason that’s given is that modem/router software and firmware updates are delivered in the quiet hours, so they will only be received if the unit is powered on. I don’t know what happens to updates like this if the unit is never on during the night, but I would expect them to be delivered on the next power-up.

It’s a common remedy for lost connections to switch the unit off, wait a bit and then switch it on again. There have been periods when I’ve had to do this several times a day; nowadays it’s only once or twice a week. What bad things should I be expecting to see?

I suppose it depends on what sort of modem/router we’re talking about, but I’d be interested in your reasons for leaving it on when it’s not in use.

The main reason is that it confuses the exchange into thinking the line is faulty and/or unstable, which triggers a ton of diagnostics and recovery actions… That slow the line right down for up to a month.

Doing it once in a while isn’t an issue, but doing it every day is.

On top of that, constantly forcing it on and off at the wall doesn’t do much good for the electronics inside either...

It’s more that the adaptive technique used to get to the higher speeds gets reset. On modern systems, the system ‘hops’ between frequencies and pushes the speed to get towards the best speed that it can for your particular set up. 
 

As we are just over half way through the second month (August) now, I wondered if anyone has seen a monthly update yet?

Last month the message was that there would be no update as for users who had not joined before the month began (difficult when I don’t think it was launched until 1st) but surely now users should see a progress report?

If it’s actually not going to happen, than why not just say so?

Hi @decroisic, usage will be measured from the day the customer signs up to the challenge, so you’ll will be measured and eligible from 14th August and if successful will receive pro-rata credit.

@BPLightlog the update emails are due to be sent out in the next few days, to those who were able to and did sign up before 1st August.