Gary Manuel

These look like last years T&Cs. This years scheme DOES include export. This scheme is not aimed at delivering savings to anyone. It is aimed at encouraging people who have the ability to help the grid to cope at times when it is struggling. This is either by them reducing how much they take from the grid or by how much they feed back into the grid. The grid effect is the same and (rightly IMO) the payment is the same. I am expecting to make a decent amount from the sessions in order to reduce the payback time of the rather expensive equipment (currently 5.5 years). I can export at about 7.5kW, so a 1 hour session should earn me £2.25 x 7.5 = £16.88. I would encourage anyone who has a home battery or not to get involved in this.

Yes it is correct. I based it on what was paid during last years events. £2.25 was actually the minimum rate. The maximum was £4. These are special incentives that the National Grid fund via most of the electric companies over winter. They need to do this because the grid cannot cover the demand at peak times. I don't know where you got that from Matty, but it's wrong. Lot's of duff info on the internet and you may have found a copy of last years T&Cs, which didn't include export. This years does. These are extract from the current T&C's plus a FAQ asking the direct question about the inclusion of export during the saving sessions. HA Automation finished and good to go!

Just writing an automation to automatically charge the batteries up just before the forthcoming OctoPlus Saving Sessions begin, and then fully discharge during the session for a payback of around £2.25 per kWh. Happy to do my bit to prop up the national grid when the supply can't cope .... and get paid in return. (Not directly EV related but another benefit of the equipment).

That's the beauty of Intelligent Octopus. Edit - P.S. If you want to avoid charging your EV from your house batteries, Just move where it takes its supply to the grid side of your inverter/battery current transformer (Henley Blocks). EV charger becomes invisible to the inverter.

Me neither, but I have used someone else's Nabu Casa account to help them with a problem they were having and it works really well.

Best thing since sliced bread. I'm just using an old redundant laptop I had doing nothing.

Using Home Assistant and GivTCP addon, which facilitates automated local control of my two GivEnergy inverters.

It's not available to "Go!" users but it is available to "Intelligent Octopus Go" users as payback for handing control of the additional EV charging slots over to Octopus. Edit. You do need a compatible car or compatible charger that can be controlled by them, to be able to get on "Intelligent Octopus Go"

I have the same setup with my EV. Ohme Pro wall box, which allows Intelligent Octopus Go integration. IOG is leading the other generator's tarriffs in that it is using the surplus energy at Octopus's convenience to help balance the grid. Since the beginning of October, I have been getting immediate cheap EV charging during the day, whenever I plug in. House load / solar battery charging then also becomes cheap during the EV charging slots. I have setup my Inverter Battery to automatically detect when an Intelligent charging slot is in operation and charge the house batteries at the same time. It is working brilliantly. Last month I paid 1.26% at full rate (29.56p), 58.61% at 7.5p and 40.13% free from solar. Savings over standard variable rate was £255. The free rate was above 80% in the summer. I got the EV purely for commercial reasons as it gave access to this great electricity tariff. PS. I also get paid 15p per kWh for export.

I suspect it's also to do with keeping costs down. A touch screen with various standards of software features must be cheaper than a bespoke dashboard.

Touch screens in cars are a really bad idea in my opinion. Mine has one for audio / phone etc and controlling the index finger of your left hand at arms length whilst going over bumps and looking at the road ahead takes some doing. Give me a good old knob to grab hold of any day - ooh err missus.

BYD = Build Your Dreams. No idea what it means business wise.

It's very smooth actually, but I suppose if you really wanted to.......

Press pedal to accelerate, ease foot of pedal to use regenerative braking. It can bring the car to a complete stop and hold it on a hill. If you drive carefully, there is no need to use the footbrake unless you need extra braking force.

iPedal is permanently on for me. Just takes a bit of getting used to.

I bought a set of the micro drill bits. Good luck using the smallest one (0.3mm) more than once. I can barely SEE it, never mind drill a hole with it!

After the new programmer turns up and you've used it, you'll go to put it somewhere safe. That's where the old one will be.