Octopus power ups Northern Scotland

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Octopus power ups Northern Scotland

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I joined moments ago. Any of you guys in?

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Lucky you, living in Scotland and this as well!
Sadly, I can't see it ever applying in central England...
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There's a section in the form where you can add your region/postcode to a list of "We want Power Ups here too".
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AE-NMidlands wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:20 am Lucky you, living in Scotland and this as well!
Sadly, I can't see it ever applying in central England...
Why not?
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That's good to hear Dan. Apparently it's been on the go up here since Dec 24. No idea why it's not been advertised, otherwise, what's the point? :roll:
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Oliver90owner wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:31 am
AE-NMidlands wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:20 am Lucky you, living in Scotland and this as well!
Sadly, I can't see it ever applying in central England...
Why not?
It might morph into a turn up national DFS, the NESO have plans in the future, NESO are paying for this trial.
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I've registered interest for North West Wales, we have plenty of offshore wind up here so hopefully at some point it might become a possibility for power ups.

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There is a session here 8pm to 10pm tonight. I don't anticipate qualifying for this one since I only joined today but it will be nice for other times. Funny, we spoke about incentives and here it has been.
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Oliver90owner wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:31 am
AE-NMidlands wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:20 am Lucky you, living in Scotland and this as well!
Sadly, I can't see it ever applying in central England...
Why not?
I was thinking that there isn't that much in the way of renewable generation around me and probably not ever going to be a shortage of demand either.
However thinking further away, there is Moxi's N Wales and Irish Sea stuff, so maybe I'll volunteer/request it too.

p.s. just did it, and it was so familiar that I'm sure I must have registered my interest before!
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