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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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nowty wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2024 10:35 am
Joeboy wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2024 8:24 am I am still getting my head around buying for X amount then selling back for 2xx amount plus a penny.

Got a good strong meter signal Nowty?

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By the end of the month I think Nowty Towers will have exported more in 2024 than imported. With the current rates I only need to export half of my import for all of my energy to be free. :mrgreen:

And thats not counting FITs, Ripple projects, saving sessions or power hours. :D

Smart Meter has never lost any data yet. :xx:

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Re: Octopus Free Power Hours

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Solar didn’t help today :head-bang:
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Looking at the grid numbers today it wasn't that there was "too much wind" but actually potentially "too much solar", - warm bright sunny afternoon coupled with low demand - and it makes sense why Octopus was trying to turn up demand.
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I note that in both Power hours last Thursday and today the agile import price was similar at just over 2p / kWh.

The wholesale price today was between 1.1p and 1.6p / kWh during the power hour.
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nowty wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2024 10:35 am Smart Meter has never lost any data yet. :xx:
I wish my smart meters would behave themselves, new meters fitted April 2023. Lost connection for a week in November, lost connection for two weeks in July, still not got export showing for that period. Gas updated with out issue, so it was the electric meter not communicating with the communication hub.

With solar and charging from the grid I was pushing 190 Amps into the batteries at times.
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AGT wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 11:56 am No invite to the last one or this one
Very strange
Checked email spam folder and nothing sitting in that inbox either.
Same here - I've registered 3 times now - not sure what is going on
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I think Octopus got a little overwhelmed with responses for the sign-ups to this programme.
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And there’s another one tomorrow (Wednesday 21st) at the same 1-2pm time slot.
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dan_b wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:16 pm And there’s another one tomorrow (Wednesday 21st) at the same 1-2pm time slot.
How u know this dan? :oO:
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Just got an email from them :xl:


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