Octopus Free Power Hours

[nowty]

That is interesting. I always switch off smart charging during these "power hours" because I don't want the car charging at 7.4kW while Octopus are monitoring it.

I'm charging the IOG EV controlled one at 10A and SWMBO EV at 32A.

With 2 mins to go before the power-hour finished, I stopped the car charging, switched to 6A, turned smart charging on, and asked for a charge schedule. So at least the 2nd half will be at double-bubble...

It should be near quadruple bubble, x3.7 on my tariff if I pay 7p but get 26p rebate for every kWh used.

[AE-NMidlands]

The way it seems to work for me (without an EV) is that my bill includes the price of the units at the standard rate (23.57p,) but I get the power hour consumption credited back separately so it effectively costs me nothing. That messes up my spreadsheet though! Of course I re-export as much of it as I can straight away in the next evening peak at 27.33p.

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[dan_b]

Results are in from the last free power hour - bagged myself a massive 11p's worth of free electricity. It all counts I guess!

[Stinsy]

Not bad considering the weather was too warm to require spaceheating and I only have a teeny inverter. It is the credited-for-peak-price-billed-for-off-peak part that makes it free money!

Hopefully, there'll be far more of them this winter! (Samse as the saving sessions, too few and far-between for my liking!).

[Fintray]

£3.66 here, the day was grey and very little solar coming in, so worked out ok.

[nowty]

Good results at Nowty Towers for the last Power hour day on the 20th Oct.

Total cost of leccy for the entire day £7.72



A free leccy reward of £5.63



And the power hour plus extra IOG slots allowed me to have a second bite of the cherry at exporting in a single day which rewarded me with another £5.94



And that was on a day where my solar generation was dire.

[Richard77]

Hi nowty....

Where do you find the lovely bar chart you posted with consumption and unit rate on the octopus website/app?

Thanks.

[nowty]

Hi nowty....

Where do you find the lovely bar chart you posted with consumption and unit rate on the octopus website/app?

Thanks.

That's actually from my latest bill, screengrab from the PDF file, not from the website / app.

[Richard77]

Hi nowty....

Where do you find the lovely bar chart you posted with consumption and unit rate on the octopus website/app?

Thanks.

That's actually from my latest bill, screengrab from the PDF file, not from the website / app.

Oh...

[AE-NMidlands]

Hi nowty....

Where do you find the lovely bar chart you posted with consumption and unit rate on the octopus website/app?

Thanks.

That's actually from my latest bill, screengrab from the PDF file, not from the website / app.

Oh...
[/quote]It's on my laptop account ...

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