Our cutting-edge trial, in partnership with SP Power Networks, pays Octopus prospects in Dumfries and Galloway to make use of extra energy at sure occasions when there’s extra wind power being generated.
We expect it’s solely proper to present prospects who stay closest to numerous wind technology the good thing about having clear power on their doorstep.
In our Windy Day Fund trial, we’re getting down to show that we don’t must let wind energy go to waste. If sufficient folks close by shift their power use to these occasions after we realize it’s going to be actually windy, we will use far more of it up. Then, in flip, we gained’t want to make use of as a lot energy afterward when the wind isn’t blowing and we’d usually need to depend on fossil fuels.
The place the Massive Soiled Flip Down has folks becoming a member of in all throughout the nation, the Windy Day Fund is only for Octopus sensible meter prospects in Dumfries and Galloway – the place there is a excessive focus of wind technology.
We have put collectively a listing of often requested questions that can assist you determine if you would like to participate.
Phrases & Circumstances for The Windy Day trial
Basic
- The trial might be run by Octopus Power Restricted, an organization registered in England and Wales with registered quantity 09263424 and registered workplace 33 Holborn, London, EC1N 2HT (“Octopus Power”, “we”, “us”).
- These phrases and circumstances, along with any particular guidelines set out in any communications regarding the trial to incentivise prospects to show up demand in specified time durations to keep away from renewables curtailment (the “Trial”), are the trial guidelines (“Guidelines”) and apply to this Trial. By coming into this Trial, you might be agreeing to be certain by these Guidelines and every other relevant directions launched once in a while.
- Particulars particular to the trial are displayed on our web site.
- That is an experimental analysis mission. This Trial has not been completed earlier than, and we could due to this fact expertise unexpected billing points or different issues because of the Trial. We are going to work to minimise and resolve any unexpected points, however by collaborating on this analysis, you acknowledge these dangers.
- Octopus Power reserves the proper to cancel or amend the Trial and/or the Guidelines with out prior discover. Any adjustments might be posted on our web site.
- Within the occasion of any dispute relating to any side of the trial, the choice of Octopus Power shall be last and no correspondence might be entered into.
- Our Basic Phrases & Circumstances for Home Prospects nonetheless apply to you and must be learn along with these extra phrases.
Trial Participation
8. There isn’t a entry price and no buy essential to enter this Trial. Entrants have to be 18 or over. Solely residents of ‘DG’ and ‘KA’ postcode areas are eligible to participate in
the trial.
9. To be eligible for the Trial, you will need to:
a. be a resident of ‘DG’ or ‘KA’ postcode areas;
b. be a present electrical energy buyer of Octopus Power and have been on provide as of 1st December 2021 on the similar deal with;
c. have a working sensible meter which is sending us half-hourly readings;
d. not be on an export tariff with any provider;
e. opt-into the Trial by finishing the shape within the e mail despatched to you by us relating to the Trial.
10. The trial interval will begin at 00:01 on Wednesday ninth March 2022 and can finish at 23:59 on Saturday thirtieth Could 2022.
11. Every participant can have a private goal of elevated power utilization calculated for them by Octopus Power, primarily based on their final 4 weeks of consumption information collected
from their sensible meter (the “Private Goal”) earlier than every occasion.
12. There might be 6 occasions all through the trial interval, with every occasion happening for 2 hours and confirmed sooner or later prior (an “Occasion Window”). Prior to every occasion, we
will ship you a notification of the occasion window and your personal Private Goal through e mail.
13. We ask that you simply enhance your power consumption by your Private Goal in the course of the Occasion Window. For those who do, the electrical energy you utilize throughout that window might be free.
We are going to credit score your account inside two weeks of every occasion. Notice that for those who enhance your utilization however not by an quantity better than or equal to the Private Goal, you
might be charged on your power utilization.
14. For those who enhance your power consumption to double your forecast baseline consumption (the 4 prior weeks of consumption) for the interval, we offers you an
extra credit score equal to your consumption multiplied by your unit fee.
15. Within the occasion that we’re unable to tug your meter readings to calculate your utilization from any of the Occasion Home windows, we’ll work it out utilizing a median throughout all trial individuals. If we’re persistently unable to retrieve meter readings out of your sensible meter regardless of making all affordable efforts to take action over the course of 1 working week, we reserve the proper to take away you from the trial.
17. By coming into the Trial, you warrant that every one data submitted by you is true, present and full. If any data you submit is discovered to be fraudulent or incorrectly accomplished or if Octopus Power has affordable grounds to imagine that you’ve breached any of the Guidelines, Octopus Power reserves the proper to disqualify you from the Trial.
18. Octopus Power won’t be liable to reimburse any bills incurred with coming into the trial.
19. Please word that we’ll often ship you surveys to finish as a part of this analysis.
Knowledge Safety and Publicity
20. Octopus Power’s privateness coverage shall apply to any information collected in reference to this Trial and will be discovered on our web site at http://octopus.power/privateness.
21. Octopus Power in its sole discretion reserves the proper to withdraw or range the Guidelines and/or any provide made in reference to them with a view to adjust to the choice of any related judicial or regulatory physique and shall not be held liable to any entrant for thus doing
22. Our purpose is that the information (together with any Private Knowledge as outlined within the EU Basic Knowledge Safety Regulation) (“Knowledge”) generated beneath the Trial will allow us, and different organisations concerned within the Trial, to develop new methods of bettering the services we’re in a position to provide, akin to creating methods that can assist you use power extra effectively. We are going to due to this fact want to make use of the Knowledge, together with different data you present to us, for these and different analysis, authorized, administrative and administration functions. By collaborating in a Trial, you consent to this and to our sharing of the Knowledge with different third events who’re concerned within the Trial and the broader power flexibility evaluation being undertaken in relation thereto
23. You acknowledge and agree that we could hold your Knowledge in the course of the Trial and for such a interval as is fairly required thereafter for the needs of our analysis into power flexibility providers.
24. You might withdraw your consent for us to gather and course of your Knowledge at any time by giving us written discover. For those who do that, you’ll not have the ability to take part on a Trial.