EDF customers- free electricity on 14 FEB

Aaw! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 they are all ❤️ these energy companies!
Perhaps they are counting on the population all having candlelit dinners or doing other things with the lights out?

I'm with EDF. Haven't heard this.

I hadn't heard of it either, just looked it up. You have to register your interest in their Sunday Saver challenge, where you switch your weekday peak hour usage to off peak times ( Sundays). You have to have a smart meter and opt into half hourly meter reads.

I’m not a customer of EDF, but four hours of free electricity one evening wouldn’t exactly fill me with joy.

We get this regularily with Octopus, it is all to do with using power during quieter hours, and when there is a surplus of green energy. We just leave things like the dishwasher, tumble drier etc until we have the couple of free hours, and so far, in the last four weeks it has been the equivalent of 2 days free electricity. It is not in the middle of the night or anything like that, it is generally mid afternoon, presumably to encourage us to do what we need to do before the big surge of families coming home at around 5pm.

Sounds like something we had in France, (EDF being French of course).
We had red, white and blue days where the price varied enormously, and I'd go mad on the very cheap days using all the appliances! Have fun!

Yes you do have to register your interest but if it saves me money, then I’m all in …

Barleyfields

I’m not a customer of EDF, but four hours of free electricity one evening wouldn’t exactly fill me with joy.

Obviously you don’t need the savings? How smug!

I have a tariff which gives much cheaper electricity between 10pm and 8am, every night. That’s when the dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer are used. Not smug at all, but free electricity between 7pm and 11pm one night of the year doesn’t sound much of a giveaway to me.

British Gas and Scottish Power already do similar?

I was overjoyed to get a notification from Octopus saying free electricity!!! Couldn’t wait ….

Half an hour free from 8.30 to 9pm one Friday night! Octopus said ‘do the laundry’ or ‘make a meal’. What - beans on toast??

Come on Octopus - surely you can do better?

They offered something similar during autumn culminating with free electricity from 8-4pm on Xmas day which meant I washed and dried 4 loads of laundry and utilised the oven for the whole roast shebang with added baked potatoes, fruit crumble and sausage rolls for later that week!

Wow! Pantglas2. 👍
Did you plug the car into the EV charger too?
And wash your hair so you could use the hairdryer and styling tongs?

We wouldn’t change our habits at all.

Yes do the Sunday saver too but, forget sometimes 😊

Pantglas2

They offered something similar during autumn culminating with free electricity from 8-4pm on Xmas day which meant I washed and dried 4 loads of laundry and utilised the oven for the whole roast shebang with added baked potatoes, fruit crumble and sausage rolls for later that week!

Yes it’s a saving 😊

escaped

Wow! Pantglas2. 👍
Did you plug the car into the EV charger too?
And wash your hair so you could use the hairdryer and styling tongs?

I might have if I had an EV “escaped”!

I did put dishwasher on after all that culinary effort and I’m lucky not to need hairdryer/tongs - I did ask Mr PG if lawn needed a trim…it was so sunny in north wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 that day🤣

Barleyfields

I have a tariff which gives much cheaper electricity between 10pm and 8am, every night. That’s when the dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer are used. Not smug at all, but free electricity between 7pm and 11pm one night of the year doesn’t sound much of a giveaway to me.

4hours one night is better than anything EDF have offered since we got our smart meter.
Where do I go to register my interest? Emails to EDF have so far proved futile.

There is a link on home page of their site Mollygo.

jusnoneed

There is a link on home page of their site Mollygo.

Check your MY ACCOUNT and that should help you🤞🏻

I don’t understand how free electricity for 4 hours once a year can be better than a reduced rate for 10 hours every single day of the year.

jusnoneed

There is a link on home page of their site Mollygo.

No mention on the My account page.

Barleyfields

I don’t understand how free electricity for 4 hours once a year can be better than a reduced rate for 10 hours every single day of the year.

It is not 4 hours once a year. So far, with Octopus, I have had 14 "batches" of 2-2.5 hours per day of free electricity, always in the afternoon. No need to mess about with delayed starts or running appliances during the night. I just do the washing in the afternoon instead of the morning. Really not difficult! The days and times vary by region I believe

OP is talking about EDF’s big giveaway though, not Octopus. I would find free electricity in the afternoon difficult to work around as I might be out and wouldn’t want to leave the tumble dryer on when I wasn’t around. Overnight cheap electricity suits me well but we’re all different.

Bea65

Yes do the Sunday saver too but, forget sometimes 😊

I asked about Sunday saver. They said they paused it throughout January and when I asked what about February, they said it was paused indefinitely.