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23 Aug 20232 minute read

Ovo to pay customers to use off-peak green energy

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Ovo to pay customers to use off-peak green energy

Energy retailer Ovo is set to pay more than 1.5 million customers to shift their electricity usage away from peak hours (between 4pm and 7pm) to times when the grid has access to more green power. 

Called the Power Move scheme, customers can be paid up to £10 per month for cutting down their electricity usage to 12.5% of their daily usage in peak periods.

This equates to around three dishwasher loads, or four loads of washing per week, according to Ovo.

Mat Moakes, chief commercial officer at OVO, said to BusinessGreen,"[...] We're paying customers to move their energy use out of peak times, to times of day when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. This is all part of our commitment to help make our customers' homes, as well as the energy system, greener."

The announcement comes after Ovo trialled Power Move over the winter, paying customers almost £150,000 for shifting 164,179 kWh of demand out of peak time. The trial delivered carbon savings of 22.3 tonnes.

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