Central heating

[Joeboy]

Feck!

Better get used to it!

Trying!

As an aside, our arrival back home electric consumption was a peak of 80kWh through the charge window. It took a lot to bring the building up to temperature. Since then (1 week) we have dropped back to 60kWh per charge window as I've tweaked the SH's and battery has settled out. I am quite happy with that result. No Nov Octopus competitions though?

[Oldgreybeard]

Our overnight consumption is usually around 5kWh to 6kWh, unless (like last night) I top up the car (last night we used 11.6kWh). That's charging the battery to 75%, if it needs it (last night it didn't, thanks to all the sun yesterday morning, which also heated the hot water).

Heating still not come on here, yet, house is at 21.6°C this morning, though, so we came pretty close to it coming on last night. Can't be long before the heating fires up for the first time, and when it does it will just about double our normal (non-car charging) overnight consumption.

[Stinsy]

No Nov Octopus competitions though?

I heard that Octopus gave away a free "Power Hour" on Tuesday to select customers not me though. And I'm also not on the get-rewarded-for-using-less-peak-electric thing either.

[Joeboy]

No Nov Octopus competitions though?

I heard that Octopus gave away a free "Power Hour" on Tuesday to select customers not me though. And I'm also not on the get-rewarded-for-using-less-peak-electric thing either.

Boo hiss!

[nowty]

No Nov Octopus competitions though?

I heard that Octopus gave away a free "Power Hour" on Tuesday to select customers not me though. And I'm also not on the get-rewarded-for-using-less-peak-electric thing either.

Boo hiss!

I missed out on the power hour too.
https://octopus.energy/powerhour/

[Moxi]

Do you think it is possible that they (NG and suppliers) are starting to target their audience to incentivise the "average" consumer and thereby omitting "engaged and aware" customers from the rewards package?

I would presume that it's very easy for the suppliers to assess smart meter readings and pick out the heavy users at the peak times to target them to change their behaviours for a reward?

Moxi

[Stinsy]

Do you think it is possible that they (NG and suppliers) are starting to target their audience to incentivise the "average" consumer and thereby omitting "engaged and aware" customers from the rewards package?

I would presume that it's very easy for the suppliers to assess smart meter readings and pick out the heavy users at the peak times to target them to change their behaviours for a reward?

Moxi

Basically it is like those schemes where schools give naughty kids expensive electronic goods for being slightly less naughty, while the kinds who are always good get nothing!

[nowty]

Do you think it is possible that they (NG and suppliers) are starting to target their audience to incentivise the "average" consumer and thereby omitting "engaged and aware" customers from the rewards package?

I would presume that it's very easy for the suppliers to assess smart meter readings and pick out the heavy users at the peak times to target them to change their behaviours for a reward?

Moxi

Thats pretty much what Octopus are doing with their flavour of the National Grid incentive.
https://octopus.energy/saving-sessions/

[Oldgreybeard]

A momentous day, the heating came on for the first time for a few hours last night. Made for a very high level of consumption overnight, just over 16kWh, although about 7.5kWh of that was the battery re-charging, as yesterday we only generated about 2kWh in total. The heat pump drew an average power of about 800W for just over 6 hours, so a bit under 5kWh in total, and more than we need in terms of stored heat (this always happens at the start of the heating season until it settles down). The house is a bit toasty this morning, so in all probability the heat pump won't come on again for a few days, as the floor slab is now sitting at 23.3°C and it's turned mild again, 14.5°C outside this morning.

[MrPablo]

Impressively low level of energy usage considering the heat will last you several days. A testament to the house construction!