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Why does Power Move not include weekends?

  • February 22, 2024
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If the point of ‘PowerMove’ is to shuffle power usage away from the peak 4-7pm weekday times surely it makes no sense not to count weekend usage when calculating target averages. If over the course of a whole month I’ve shuffled a significant amount of laundry, batch cooking and other power intensive chores away from weekdays and into the weekend - but Saturdays and Sundays are ignored when calculations are made - then my actual monthly off-peak average isn’t being accurately recorded for the purposes of meeting the target. In order to reach the target I need to shuffle usage in a 24 hour window, 5 days per week - rather than across the week as a whole - and concentrate usage to off-peak hours during the week … if this is about changing habits, surely whole week, or even whole month usage needs to be included when calculating averages … or am I missing something ?

Best answer by DavidWSR

I think the Power Move is limited to Monday to Friday 4-7pm as this is when peak demand occurs. The demands at the weekends are different. Maybe there is another window that needs to be explored at the weekends for reducing energy usage.

 

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Chris_OVO
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July 25, 2024

@Mike90216 You’re welcome! 

 

Glad to hear that your calculations are more in your favour! 

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