My family have a new hobby: sitting in the dark. In this winter of discontent, with money evaporating, grim headlines, picket lines festooning the nation and even the coffin makers out on strike, there are admittedly more cheerful activities we could have chosen. Park Run, perhaps.
But this isn’t any old sitting in the dark. This is Octopus Energy’s Saving Sessions, the gamification of energy saving. This is sitting in the dark . . . for prizes.
The goal, Octopus says, is for customers to minimise electricity consumption during peak times, easing the impact of price hikes while taking pressure off the grid.
It’s part of a National Grid ESO scheme paying households for shifting energy use out of peak time in a bid
