So, back to the benefits of a smart meter … having watched how Octopus has managed my car charging for the past 3 nights, I’m now sure that what they’re doing, every day, is setting up a charging schedule based on what they believe will be most efficient for the network, but the details of the schedule absolutely does change by the time you get to late evening. Last night i expected my meter to light up at 11.30pm with something drawing 7kW but there was nowt - so i checked the app again and it had decided not to charge until 2am. This morning the app shows that’s exactly what did happen - screenshot below. The blips after midnight are the dishwasher, now happily running every night at 7p instead of our previous flexible rate of 24p.
