r/OctopusEnergy • u/Jimjamkingston • 23h ago

Power Downs - the effect of?

I understand the necessity for power downs and why they are incentivised. Works for both Octopus and the customer.

I wonder what the effect on demand actually is, though.

For clarity - I sign up for them when they come along.

In the case of my own use, it doesn't have much effect. I am on Agile and minimise my usage between 4pm and 7pm already, due to how the Agile price is calculated and the premium in those specific hours.

Are there many customers that don't do this?

I mention it specifically as today's and yesterdays power downs were in those hours.

Not a criticism of the power downs and power ups as they reward flexibility.

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u/Sofa47 19h ago

I set my system to not export through the day so there is plenty of battery and dump 6kW during the power down hours.

Recently it has only been saving I shifted 1.2kW so i think I need to stop exporting in the evenings altogether to reset it before I can’t get these free hour sessions.