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.

We are currently using 33w which will be fridge and router.

Just electricity I think

I've got 5 tea lights and it's pretty dark!

I thought it was both? I’m sat here under a blanket!

Oh damn it is just electricity! Ah well saving money anyway

6 pm! Off to cook dinner...

Yay! First one done 🤣

Just electricity.

Cheers for the tip @popcornfrenzy , I'll pick some up.

5-6pm here too, stayed out of the house until 10 minutes ago as with two kids this is prime time for our usage!!

Oh mine says they couldn’t read my smart meter! Oh ffs late dinner for nothing.

Done! Not as peaceful here as the kids spent it moaning they couldn't watch telly - despite having devices charged!

Grr! Mine says that too. Very annoying

Same here. It says they'll credit me with the average earned by others in the session though..

Mine says it too

I wonder if they managed to read any? I didn't turn off the router or the smart meter. They were the only things still plugged in!

Another one saying they couldn’t read the meter!

Looks like they had a lot of issues!

Another one whose had a meter reading error. I really hope the meters it read are all owned by people with hot tubs and saunas 🤣
In reality though, other than turning off all power sockets for items on standby and lights which are led I'm not really sure what we may have done for saving

Octopus couldn't read ours either!

Loved it - absolutely everything turned off and rice, chicken and ribs cooked on the stove :)

Octopus have tweeted that the error message was an error and we should get our readings in 48 hours

Me too! What's the point of that? There were 388,??? people on the website when I looked at the beginning did anyone's reading work?

Thanks for the update!

I’m sure this was a trial run so Octopus can identify problems. Sensible really for such a new concept.

Ah I'm glad I read this thread first, I wasn't aware there had been an error so checked the app and saw the same error as everyone else .. but the error is itself an error, excellent!

I had assumed today was one of the rehearsal sessions the National Grid had planned, to iron out these kinds of issues (and good prep for us to make sure we're ready for the next one, which may help to avert an actual blackout). It's not an entirely new concept as Octopus did a similar scheme as a trial earlier in the year, which is why we were fully prepped with rechargeable camping lamps, battery packs, torches .. basically way more kit than you would need for an hour's low power usage (DH and ds insisted on still having the TV on).

@Gufo - thanks for the update. I don’t have Twitter, I wish companies wouldn’t use this to disseminate official news