Nationwide Grid’s challenge rewards folks for each kilowatt hour they save. The extra you employ usually, the extra you’ll be able to scale back and the extra you stand to earn.
This isn’t one thing we will change — it’s the entire level of the challenge, serving to the grid scale back megawatt hours of power demand in order that they don’t have to search out that very same quantity of technology (from fossil fuels).
However when you’re already doing all you’ll be able to to chop down your power, we wish to have fun your efforts too. That’s why we are going to typically provide completely different Octopoint bonuses for different varieties of participation, like streaks, or typically, for being one of many high Savers by proportion (so regardless of how a lot you scale back, it’s the proportion of your regular energy that counts). Plus, now we have spot prizes each Session, providing you with the prospect to win 400,000 Octopoints or £500 only for opting in.
Past no matter you handle to earn, and our completely different bonuses and prizes, your efforts are a part of one thing greater.
Our Classes are making an enormous distinction on the grid: typically saving as a lot energy as all of the houses in Leicester switching off. That’s all energy the UK doesn’t must generate, saving an unlimited quantity of fossil gas emissions and making everybody’s power a bit cheaper by lowering the necessity for the grid to burn fuel final minute at an enormous premium (balancing prices might be large, typically tens of thousands and thousands for a single day!)
