Our cutting-edge trial, in partnership with Nationwide Grid ESO, offers clients everywhere in the UK free electrical energy for delaying vitality use when the UK’s vitality combine is dirtiest.
It’s solely free to get entangled, your tariff and vitality funds received’t change, and you may choose out any time.
Whereas current occasions in vitality have been powerful, there’s nonetheless excellent news: the UK is slowly however certainly getting greener and greener.
Renewable technology is ready to triple by 2030. If we had that a lot renewable vitality obtainable in the present day, it will be sufficient to energy the nation nearly twice over on the most energy-intensive occasions!
This might be a large milestone for decarbonisation. Octopus was based to carry cheaper, greener vitality to the world, so we would like as many inexperienced electrons within the grid as potential. However there’s a problem: what occurs when the wind doesn’t blow, and the solar doesn’t shine?
We’re trialling an answer to that basic problem, and we want your assist!
When the grid is struggling, soiled coal and diesel stations are fired as much as fulfill the UK’s vitality wants. Utilizing the facility of sensible meters, we will display the huge potential of UK properties to collectively shift their vitality utilization, and show these polluting choices aren’t wanted.
We’re working with Nationwide Grid ESO, the individuals who run the electrical energy community, to trial an enormous nationwide ‘turndown’, the place households come collectively to consciously use much less vitality at sure occasions – and get rewarded with free energy for his or her efforts. Whereas your personal residence would possibly solely be a small drop within the ocean, each ocean is made up of many drops; so put sufficient of them collectively and so they quickly add up.
Wish to get entangled? You will must…
- Be an Octopus Power electrical energy buyer since December 1st 2021
- Have a working sensible meter, which sends us half-hourly reads
- Not be on an export tariff (Outgoing, SEG, and so on)
How will the trial work?
There’ll be 5 to 10 occasions the place you’ll must try to use much less energy, over February and March, for a interval of two hours. If you happen to’re in a position to scale back your vitality use by a goal quantity – which we’ll let you already know forward of time – you’ll get all the electrical energy used throughout that two hour interval for gratis.
A number of hours earlier than every occasion, we’ll ship you a notification by way of e-mail, textual content, or via the Octopus app. It will embrace the trial window timing and your private goal for that interval.
All it’s essential to do is flip every thing down a bit, and we’ll use the info out of your sensible meter to do the remainder.
How will you calculate my vitality discount targets?
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Brief reply: we’ll work out what you sometimes use through the trial time slot primarily based in your historic sensible meter readings, and calculate a % we might such as you to scale back that by for every occasion.
Lengthy reply: We’ll have a look at your historic sensible meter information to work out the typical you used over the identical time slot for the previous month (so if we would like you to Flip Down at 4-6pm on a Monday, we’ll work out your typical vitality use primarily based on what you used between 4-6pm through the 4 earlier Mondays).
We could set your goal discount otherwise to different clients as totally different folks have totally different talents to shift, e.g. in case your night consumption is often 2kWh, we would ask you to drop to 1kWh, however if you happen to’re a sometimes low person we would ask you to scale back by a smaller %. Any vitality you employ beneath this goal might be credited to your account on the unit price of your provide settlement.
How will I be paid?
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We’ll use the readings out of your sensible meter to calculate your vitality costs through the two hour ‘turndown’ home windows, after which credit score your vitality account for that quantity inside 2 weeks of every occasion.
Can I choose out at any time?
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After all – simply click on the choose out hyperlink in pre-turndown notification e-mail we ship.
Will this have an effect on my vitality tariff or funds?
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No, neither might be affected. You’ll be charged for vitality as regular all through the trial. We’ll make your vitality free throughout the two hour turndown home windows by crediting your vitality account.
Do I’ve to offer meter readings manually to participate?
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No – you want a working sensible meter for this trial, which suggests we will take meter readings routinely to calculate what you’ve used. All it’s essential to concentrate on is discovering methods to show down your vitality use – we’ll do the remainder.
Phrases & Situations for The Demand Flip Down 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 situations, along with any particular guidelines set out in any communications regarding 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 some other relevant directions.
- Octopus Power reserves the correct 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 concerning any facet of the trial, the choice of Octopus Power shall be ultimate and no correspondence might be entered into.
Trial Participation
- There is no such thing as a entry price and no buy essential to enter this trial. Entrants should be 18 or over. Solely residents of Nice Britain are eligible to enroll to Octopus Power and participate within the trial.
- To be eligible for the trial, it’s essential to:
- be a present electrical energy buyer of Octopus Power and have been on provide as of 1st December 2021
- have a working sensible meter which is sending us half-hourly readings
- opt-into the trial by finishing the shape within the occasion e-mail
- The trial interval will begin at 00:01 on Monday sixteenth Might 2022 and can finish at 23:59 on Friday twentieth Might 2022.
- Every participant can have a private goal 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.
- There might be between 2 and three occasions all through the trial interval. Prior to every occasion, we’ll ship you a notification of the occasion window and your personal Private Goal.
- To realize your Private Goal, it’s essential to scale back your vitality consumption by your Private Goal through the occasion window. If you happen to do, the remaining electrical energy you employ throughout that window might be free. We are going to credit score your account inside two weeks of every occasion.
- Within the occasion that we’re unable to drag your meter readings to calculate your utilization from any of the flip down home windows, we’ll work it out utilizing a median throughout all trial members. If we’re constantly 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 correct to take away you from the trial.
- By coming into the trial, you warrant that each 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 correct to disqualify you from the trial.
- Octopus Power is not going to be liable to reimburse any bills incurred with coming into the trial.
Information Safety and Publicity
- Octopus Power’s privateness coverage shall apply to any information collected in reference to this trial and could be discovered on our web site at http://octopus.vitality/privateness.
- Octopus Power in its sole discretion reserves the correct to withdraw or fluctuate the Guidelines and/or any provide made in reference to them with the intention to adjust to the choice of any related judicial or regulatory physique and shall not be held liable to any entrant for therefore doing.
