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Hi everyone,

 

The second series of Power Move Flex, and first series of Power Move Flex for Charge Anytime ended earlier this year, and we’re about to start inviting eligible customers to the next series. It’ll run from July 2025 to October 2025.


Power Move Flex for Charge Anytime - Starts 7th July

 

First, we’ll be inviting our eligible Charge Anytime customers to Power Move Flex for Charge Anytime. 

 

You’ll earn credit for plugging in more often and for longer, so that we can charge your EV when the grid is greenest. 

 

By plugging in for longer, there’s more time to optimise your charging. Meaning it’s less likely your car will be charged with power from fossil fuels.

 

Just set the time you need your EV charged by, and we’ll do the rest.

 

You can find out more information here - Power Move Flex for Charge Anytime

 

Power Move Flex (Power Up and Power Down events) - Starts 14th July


Then, in June we’ll start inviting eligible customers to the next series of Power Up events (when there’s low demand on the grid) and Power Down events (when there’s high demand on the grid). 

 

As Power Move Flex is part of the CrowdFlex trial, we’re testing multiple ways a customer can earn rewards for helping manage demand on the grid.

 

Power Move Flex helps match demand to the power being generated – supporting the grid and making the most of the UK’s renewable energy. The aim is to shift your electricity use to times when there’s less demand – not to use more than normal.

 

The amount of the reward you’ll receive will depend on the reward group you are randomly placed into, how many events you participate in and/or how much you’re able to shift into or out of event times.

 

We’ll let you know at the start of the trial which group you’ve been randomly placed in.

 

For more information on the next series of Power Move Flex events, please visit Power Move Flex
 

Thanks

The OVO team

For Power Up and Power Down events, we'll be inviting eligible customers from next week. If you're eligible, but don't have marketing consent, you won't receive an email but can sign up through Beyond.

Customers who took part in the last trial that have been auto-enrolled (we'll email you as well next week), won't have to sign up again as they'll automatically be entered into the trial.

 

If you follow the Power Move Flex link in the above post you are directed to an information page on that topic which seems to say that you can join the new trial on the App.  When I look at the App there is a method of joining Power Move but I don’t see a way of joining Power Move Flex.  Perhaps I am misreading the information.

Hey ​@DuncanL,

 

Have you received an email invitation to join Power Move Flex? 

No, not yet.  From your post I understood that you had to wait to be invited but on reading Power Move Flex info, it seemed to infer that you could also sign up on App.

“. If you’re an eligible customer with Beyond, you can also sign up in our app.”

​@Chris_OVO It does appear to be a line of incorrect info on that page:

 

Hey ​@DuncanL & ​@Nukecad,

 

I can see your side of it! Let me ask the team and i’ll come back with an update! 

Hey ​@DuncanL & ​@Nukecad,

 

A temporary banner has been added to the article as sign-ups are not yet live.

 

The team has confirmed that eligible Beyond customers can sign up next week without needing an invite.

 

I’ll update the callout banner once sign-ups are live

Just the usual OVO state of confusion then.  I will await next week with interest 

I no longer understand power move

From the discussions that took place I'm very pleased to see that Charge Anytime has been added to the Power Move Flex trial and look forward to see how that worked out along with customer engagement. This is also good education that moving power from the peak or times that the grid is under the greatest pressure is a good thing. Well done in getting that approved @OVO team.

 

Peter

I no longer understand power move

Power Move != Power Move Flex. Please make sure you’re reading the correct one.

There are no changes to Power Move itself.

I have just had a battery and solar panel system installed and signed up to an OVO SEG tariff. Does anyone know how this works with Power Move Flex? During power down times I could potentially discharge my battery to the grid. How would this negative energy use be handled by Power Mow Plus?

Howdy ​@brichard !

I’m afraid I don’t have the answer to that one myself… But I do know someone who likely does.

Bear with me for a bit, as I’ll need to get an assist. You ok for a day or two?

Ok, I’m back! Just checked with the team and got a response.

What you’ll want to do for now is use the battery during Power Down events. You won’t get special credit for doing so, but it will count as “Powering Down” for the purposes of Power Move Flex, as the usage wouldn’t be going through the meter.

Just a heads up - you won’t get bonus export credits for exporting during a Power Down event, but you’ll still get SEG credits as normal. Exporting during a Power Down event likewise won’t penalise you for PMF either - your meter will identify it appropriately and the data which comes back will reflect that.

Thanks for that Blastoise186.

 

It’s unfortunate that exporting during power down does not give additional credit. I am pretty much self sufficient for electricity so have very little ability to take part in Power Move Flex. However, I have only had the system for a few days and used zero from the grid in that time. I’m sure it will be different in the winter so i’ll stay in PMF and see how things pan out later in the year.

Thanks again for your help

No worries. I did have a chat with the team about considering how Solar/Batteries could integrate with PMF or other projects in the future and it’s something they’d be happy to drop in the suggestions box (which I think they’ve done) but for now you may be able to make some use of PMF if you get lucky.

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