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Charge up. Get paid.
Did you know you could get paid up to £100 over winter by helping the grid with your zappi?
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How does Gridpay work?
Get paid for using surplus grid energy during quieter periods, and get paid for temporarily pausing your charge during busier periods.
Join in less than a minute, and simply watch the cash roll in!
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It’s FREE!
We’ll take care of all the pausing and starting for you, seamlessly handling events in the background, ensuring you won’t even notice.
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During the British summer, there’s plenty of renewables, leading to an excess of power in the electricity grid. A lot of this extra energy goes to waste because no one is there to use it.
Paid to pause
Energy demand spikes, particularly during the British winter, can lead to shortages on the grid, risking power cuts or the activation of dirtier coal generators to meet the increased demand. This typically happens during from 4pm and 8pm when everyone returns home from work.
To help the grid during these peak times and avoid issues like blackouts, myenergi will pay you to allow us to temporarily pause your charging until grid conditions improve. You will be paid anytime a pause event happens.
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How much will you be rewarded?
Everytime we just adjust your charging, you’ll earn money. You’ll be paid according to how much you flex and the rates paid by your local grid operator. This winter, you could earn up to £100
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It takes about 2 minutes to sign up. With your permission, Axle Energy will connect to your smart meter and zappi charger. Axle Energy will then register your details with the grid operator. That’s it – you don’t need to do anything else!
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To be eligible, you’ll need to be in Great Britain, and have a zappi charger at home or at a business where you hold authority over electricity and charger use. You’re not eligible if your charger is currently managed by another service. Different local grids need help at different times. How much your charger is utilised will depend upon where you are in the country.
When you sign up, our partner Axle Energy will connect to your smart meter and zappi. You don’t need to do anything else.
No. Intelligent Octopus Go and Flux tariffs already adjust your charging, and may be participating in grid services on your behalf.
If you have forgotten your password you can reset it by clicking here.
We’ll respond to signals from the Electricity System Operator (ESO) and your local Distribution System Operator (DSO). The ESO is responsible for the whole of the UK. There are 6 DSOs in the UK, and all of them run programmes to limit strain on the grid.
This programme doesn’t have an end date. Grids are typically more strained in the winter.
Axle are our software partners, which help to make this service a reality for our customers, virtually connecting your myenergi devices to the energy market – allowing you to maximise and monetise your home energy system.
Participation is fully automated – you don’t need to do anything once you’ve signed up. You’ll still make the most of your solar generation, if you have solar panels.
We’ll always take your tariff into account when adjusting your charging, and make sure we charge your vehicle at the cheapest time for you.
We’ll adjust charging when the grid operator informs us that the grid is strained.
We don’t know at the start of the year exactly when this will be. However, grid operators give us an estimate at the start of each month, which we’ll use to tell you whether your charger is participating that month. If we just adjust your charging, you’ll earn money. You’ll be paid according to how much you flex and the rates paid by your local grid operator. This winter, you could earn up to £100*.
When we adjust charging, we’ll typically pause charging in the 4-8pm window when the grid is strained, or schedule charging in the middle of the day to soak up excess solar.
*The exact amount will vary based on your geographic location
We’ll pause your charging by placing your zappi into Eco+ mode, so it doesn’t charge from the grid.
Afterwards, we’ll turn your zappi back to the mode you had it in.
We’ll schedule additional charging using the zappi’s built-in scheduling.
If necessary, you can manually change the mode or schedules from your zappi or myenergi app to override our adjustments.
We’ll adjust your charge schedule as necessary and then reset it immediately after the event. You can also adjust the schedule from the myenergi app if it doesn’t suit your needs.
Events can happen at any hour of the day, but are most likely to happen from 4-8pm.
No, we won’t drain your battery.
If you’d like to fully opt out, send an email to gridpay@myenergi.com with the subject line “Opt Out”, and include your name and address.
We’ll send you an email letting you know we’ll be making changes to your charging.
We’ll also email when we credit your account.
If we just adjust your charging, you’ll earn money. You’ll be paid according to how much you flex and the rates paid by your local grid operator. This winter, you could earn up to £100. The exact amount will vary based on your geographic location.
No, this’ll never cost you money. If you’re on a two-rate tariff, you’ll always have at least 4 hours to charge during your off-peak overnight rates. And if we schedule charging during the day, you’ll get paid more than enough to cover your higher daytime tariff.
You can cash out your earnings once your balance is more than £10. We’ll also ask you to cash out at the end of the programme.
We’ll pay you via bank transfer (we’ll ask you for your bank details when you’re cashing out).
At the end of each month that you’ve participated, we’ll email you with a link to your balance page. You can access this balance page at any time.
“You virtually have an ATM on your wall – spitting out free cash almost every month”
The Sustainable Dad
