Octopus Saving Sessions

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Anyone signed up for this? Payments for shifting your energy use away from peak times/within a given timeslot each day.

I had my best attempt yet this evening, short of unplugging the fridge freezer and wifi router.

I was out until nearly 6 pm and then sat in the dark going through my work emails on my laptop running on the battery.

See if I can improve on the first two savings of 41 p and 34 p.

Although lets hope they do the calculations a bit quicker this time, I don't know if I can cope with the suspense.

We were out tonight so made sure everything was switched off at the plug, cancelled the boost on the hot water and put the heating on hold. No lights on, just fridge freezer.
Last time we saved 91% and we were home, did switch everything off and sit in front of the fire though. Still only got £2..... Better than 79% and £1.10 the first time.
Just got a notification for another one tomorrow 5-6. Thing is this will be the third saving session in ten days around the same time, and when they're comparing similar usage over the last ten days at the same time as the session, that has an impact surely?

They don't include any saving session days when they look at your average use.

Terrible effort tonight, so happy to have another chance tomorrow!

Glad to be told about this thread! I do keep my router on!

I have the fridge and router on and TVs on standby.
OH works from home so he is on his pc in the dark.
I am sat reading my kindle with a hot water bottle.
Keep questioning if its worth it for a quid but it is pressure off the grid I suppose.

That's what I think @Violashift. It's not worth it for the rewards, but I'd rather be in control and still have the router on than dealing with blackouts...

Weve just eaten KFC by candle light in front of the fire. Everything is off apart from the fridge/freezer which is what weve been doing each time.

Anyone else starting to think that blackouts are looking more likely?

13 minutes to go, I never eat this early but am dreaming of my Quorn cottage pie after 6! I need some snacks for the next one.

Yesterdays session is saying ' you didn't opt in to this session' but we did!

Has mine gone wrong or is it just not coping with running 2 days in a row?

I got 4p!

There was only DS in until I got home at 5:35 so the house was in darkness apart from his tv.
I just read my Kobo until 6.
My app still just shows calculating for yesterday and today

Arse @gingercat02

Sounds like my app didn't register me registering yesterday! Fish and chips by candlelight were for nothing!

It's definitely worth emailing them if it hasn't registered you opting in. I've just had a reply from them and they said there are still "teething problems " that they hope to soon sort out and they credited me £3.

Thank you! I emailed at 10pm last night, and by 6am they had responded crediting me with the £3, which is way more than I'd have got if it had registered!

Excellent customer service from Octopus, plus great advice on this thread!!

It will be interesting to see how this psns out over a few saving sessions. As said before I'm EON but it's all the same sessions. I wonder if they will fo a weekend one?

So the saving session page says I earned 1112 points this session, compared to 48 for the first session and 104 for the second. I'm guessing it's increased for the third one due to running a dehumidifier..

It looks like they've added an extra 100 points for one of the bonus streak things as well.

I've 1364 points so far, coming to £1.70.

Waiting for the 1 December results now..

I just looked minutes ago and mine was still calculating. I really want to know because I was out for the most recent ones and DH and DS think it's barmy!

Similar to you OP, my third one was 624 points, after 328 and 272, but the last one was me in the house alone, sitting in the dark, using my laptop on the battery, so just about as much as possible without turning off the fridge and Wifi. So 1224 points of £1.53 in total.

A drop in the ocean compared with the total cost, but it's a bit of fun that could have a significant boost to the country's energy security. Let's see how it goes now we're expecting the weather to be quite a bit colder over the next couple of weeks.

920 points for the fourth session on 1 December; I've now got 2,284 points worth £2.85.

3136 points for 30 November, vs 1672 for 22 November. I don't feel like we did anything different.

I was out for the 3rd one but hadnt turned anything off so thats the electricity used when we arent in. The 4th one we were home and did the same as the first 2

I made no changes at all the last two session. Apparently still saved.

Has anyone at all had the bonus 100 points added??

😂😂😂😂😂 16 and 178 in the last 2 sessions which is hilarious as I was out for both. No bonus points for opting in (and saving) in all 4 sessions