Just signed up to this, although unsure of full details:
Obviously you need to be a PodPoint customer with a smart meter. Seems a similar incentive to Octopus Agile whereby you're paid to use electricity when wind generation volumes are too high.
As I'm on Intelligent Octopus, I'll have to see if these times occur during peak (30p per kW/h) or off peak (7.5p per kW/h) to see if it's worth doing.
Ultimately it's just a trial for now, with a small incentive for participation, but could be interesting if it was to become a permanent fixture where the car charger is providing the incentives, rather than the energy company.
Here at Pod Point, we’re always looking for ways to help our customers reduce their CO2 emissions and make owning an electric car cheaper. Now, we're delighted to give you the chance to be part of an exciting new trial.
If you’re eligible and you decide to sign-up, we’ll send you an email a couple of times a week. Plug in and charge at least half of those times and we’ll give you a £25 Amazon voucher in the Spring.
Scotland sometimes generates more electricity than it can consume or export over the border. When there’s nowhere for this excess wind energy to go, Scottish wind farms must be paid to “curtail” their generation, which means they’re being paid to shut down and stop producing energy. But we think there’s a better way to make use of this energy and save us all money, by instead rewarding our customers for charging during these periods of excess energy.
So, as a Scottish Pod Point customer, between September 2023 and March 2024, you could be rewarded for plugging in and charging on days when there's an abundance of wind energy.
Obviously you need to be a PodPoint customer with a smart meter. Seems a similar incentive to Octopus Agile whereby you're paid to use electricity when wind generation volumes are too high.
As I'm on Intelligent Octopus, I'll have to see if these times occur during peak (30p per kW/h) or off peak (7.5p per kW/h) to see if it's worth doing.
Ultimately it's just a trial for now, with a small incentive for participation, but could be interesting if it was to become a permanent fixture where the car charger is providing the incentives, rather than the energy company.