Octopus Free hour tomorrow (Sunday 2pm)

[Everest]

I plugged mine in this morning and set the Octopus app to add 45%, it started at 12:00 and says it will finish at 17:00.

for free?

 

[MG Clive]

While you're all still contemplating your free hour, my free 8 hours with EDF has just ended.

 

[Kenp1]

for free?

The hour between 14:00 and 15:00, the rest at 7p a unit.

 

[Everest]

While you're all still contemplating your free hour, my free 8 hours with EDF has just ended.

My 'free' solar is still charging the EV

 

[Bam Bam]

If you're on IOG all you get is the free car charging. Everything else is at normal rates.

I'm on 'regular' Go so they have no way of knowing.

My understanding is that they will compare to my usual usage. Which would probably be about -4kWh if they count exports or 0kWh if they don't.

I'm guessing I used 8kWh, but most went into the car so I only saved about 50p on that.

 

[Bam Bam]

Weather forecasting is still very far from an exact science.

Indeed!

However, it won't be the sun you were wasting.

High winds in Scotland (plus solar in the South meaning no demand from there) meant that wind farms were being significantly curtailed.

Seagreen wind farm has been almost entirely curtailed from 8am to 3pm. If we had regional pricing your electricity would have been free today (Orange block means curtailed, the dotted line is what would have been provided to the grid and what will probably have to be paid for out of our standing charges).

GB Renewables Map

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[Rolfe]

Interesting, Bam Bam.

I didn't get a thing. Car was on a smart-charge request, just asking for 20% added before 5.30 am. Never got a schedule though, the app spent the entire middle of the day saying "Preparing your juice", until I just turned it all off after four.

 

[Rolfe]

My 'free' solar is still charging the EV

By that metric, I just got a lot of "free" public DC charging by using my Electroverse card, with the surplus I'd built up exporting that solar for 15p/unit.

 

[Alb]

Gave it my best shot today

 

[Rolfe]

Kudos. Care to elaborate?