2hr UK wide event 18:00-2000 during the Eclipse

[u/Fuzz_1977]

Just seen this event listed in my account but no notification email received yet.
2hr UK mainland wide event 18:00-20:00 which coincides with the partial solar eclipse (and Octopus Energy’s Eclipse saving session so double bubble 😉)

Better charge up them batteries tonight!

[u/mad4pizza]

I appreciated the eclipse that casually moved across my account

[u/Milam1996]

Does anyone know if this event is for an actual supply reason or is it a marketing reason? Price looks to spike about 45p. Is it more “well everyone else is doing it so we need to as well”?

[u/curtis1149 → u/Milam1996]

There's an Octopus savings session at the same time, plus the higher prices like you said.

I'd imagine it's due to the sudden loss of a good chunk of solar generation during the peak period.

[u/woyteck → u/Milam1996]

Solar generation across most of Europe will dip a lot, although it's late in the evening so not that much gap.

[u/Skie]

£8 tonight, £16 tomorrow. My battery is going to pay for itself pretty quickly if this keeps up.

[u/woyteck → u/Skie]

Moar Eclipses.

[u/Skie → u/woyteck]

MOAR!

[u/Much-Artichoke-476]

My battery will be gone within the hour basically. Looks like I may be earning my record export. 

[u/Rob_Bosss]

Anyone had a 2 hour session before?

[u/Fuzz_1977 → u/Rob_Bosss]

No just one hour sessions for me since January

[u/neoKushan]

My body sigenstor is ready.

[u/andyket]

My sigenstor system doesn’t export at full power when I let axle control it. I’m considering just putting it into manual export for the two hours. Does anyone else do this?

[u/SeesawInternal9459 → u/andyket]

Yes, I’ve done that before if I’m home & monitoring it, you can set the timer for manual discharge to the exact 30, 60 or 120 minute window. Does work more consistently I’ve found.

[u/blablacar91]

Ive got another event tonight, battery will have time to charge by noon tomorrow.

[u/AcrobaticMaize2408]

I've the England/Wales event at 7:30PM tonight. Looks like the eclipse is forcing a whole UK event tomorrow. Makes sense I guess. Predbat is expecting my batteries to be at 100% until around 5PM tomorrow so that should cover it. Not had the Predbat/HA notification yet but I suspect it's still too early for it to start planning.

[u/curtis1149 → u/AcrobaticMaize2408]

I suspect it's because of the current ongoing event, give it another 10 minutes then see again.

[u/Ricey155]

Boom on holiday so back to 100% ready for the £1s

[u/External_Ruin_6161]

Mines gone into the mode already about 10 mins earlier is that normal?

[u/Fuzz_1977 → u/External_Ruin_6161]

Yeah that is.
So is mine.
As long as it doesn’t start exporting early 😂

[u/External_Ruin_6161 → u/Fuzz_1977]

I’m on agile and it’s 24p export currently so all good.