OG&E Smart Hours Pricing Alerts

[kukblue1]

My thermostat is saying low again today.

Yep mine two and probably a hole bunch of others as I tired to call and wait was 15 minutes.

[SSEiYah]

Came home to a 72* house when it is 102* outside.

The thermostat shows $0.06 per kw hour and was at the 72* "low price" set point, however the myogepower.com site shows it is $0.47. Looks like I'm being billed at the $0.47 rate however.



Edit: I called OGE and the gentleman said he will add my name to a "complaints list" however refused to offer any type of bill credit after I asked for it twice. I was only asking for a $6.00 credit (roughly what running the AC for 2.5 hours at $0.47/kw hour costs).

[d-usa]

The notifications all said the critical price, so I don't think they would adjust.

[Servicetech571]

OGE stated on their Facebook page that they were going to make it good and only charge 6 cents for Friday.

[Jim Kyle]

Is anyone else missing the daily notifications about half the time? My mail logs show that they usually arrive between 2 and 3 p.m. with announcement of the next day's price, but last week I only got three notifications and this week I've seen only three....

[Bullbear]

Is anyone else missing the daily notifications about half the time? My mail logs show that they usually arrive between 2 and 3 p.m. with announcement of the next day's price, but last week I only got three notifications and this week I've seen only three....

I get them intermittently and then I get emails explaining the screw ups.. the catch is.. I am not even on Smart hours any longer.

[bombermwc]

Our "smart" thermostat still randomly gets "alert", even during the winter. Thankfully, since i'm not a smart hours customer any longer, it doesn't actually try to kick in the "smart" logic and ignores it. And right now, i'm very glad im not a smart hours customer.

[Servicetech571]

Our "smart" thermostat still randomly gets "alert", even during the winter. Thankfully, since i'm not a smart hours customer any longer, it doesn't actually try to kick in the "smart" logic and ignores it. And right now, i'm very glad im not a smart hours customer.

I'm surprised you haven't put a different thermostat in since you're not on the smart hours program. Why not a wifi thermostat?
Did you look into the TOU rate program?

[kukblue1]

So the report i have gotten says I have saved $149 year to date (2 months) using smarthours. But if I look at it with more detail it looks like that is just how much I have saved between 2-7. How much am I not saving having to pre-cool the house for 3 hours or having it run from 7pm until 2am to cool the house back down. Really thinking not worth it.

[d-usa]

Well, pull your bill from a year ago and compare it to this year and see what the difference is.

[Servicetech571]

So the report i have gotten says I have saved $149 year to date (2 months) using smarthours. But if I look at it with more detail it looks like that is just how much I have saved between 2-7. How much am I not saving having to pre-cool the house for 3 hours or having it run from 7pm until 2am to cool the house back down. Really thinking not worth it.

ALL of Smarthours savings are outside the hours of 2-7pm. 2-7pm is when rates are expensive.
Smarthours savings comes from paying 1/2 price the other 143 hours of the week.

[BBatesokc]

ALL of Smarthours savings are outside the hours of 2-7pm. 2-7pm is when rates are expensive.
Smarthours savings comes from paying 1/2 price the other 143 hours of the week.

EXACTLY.

You simply manage your usage from 2-7pm and you save $$$ the rest of the time.

[riflesforwatie]

So the report i have gotten says I have saved $149 year to date (2 months) using smarthours. But if I look at it with more detail it looks like that is just how much I have saved between 2-7. How much am I not saving having to pre-cool the house for 3 hours or having it run from 7pm until 2am to cool the house back down. Really thinking not worth it.

Pretty sure OG&E calculates that number on your bill by comparing your current bill on SmartHours to what your bill would've been without SmartHours. So it does take into account electricity usage outside 2-7 pm. Yes, there's a small possibility you lose some "savings" by pre-cooling, but as others have pointed out, you more than make that up by paying way less for electricity during the pre-cooling period than you would have paid without SmartHours. (Also, if your house is well-insulated or your schedule/family situation allows it, you could reduce the amount of pre-cooling you do.)

[Servicetech571]

Loving the 6 and 11 cent days we have had for the past couple of weeks. Makes up for all those critical days back in July.

[BBatesokc]

Got my SmartHours end of season report today.

Said I saved $245.36 when compared to if I didn't have SmartHours.

Like I've always said, it's not huge savings, but since we don't find it inconvenient, it's more money in our pocket.

[whatitis]

We have done so much for energy savings that it's cut into how much we saved, lol. This summer we saved $142 dollars. but my average bill was $83. for a 2k sq ft home with 12 large east/west facing windows and high ceilings I think that's really good.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Just did my average from last year to this year. Looks at $73 average. I do not have smarthours. 2400sq home. Trees block all my winds so pretty shady. I know I could lower my bill but I love my nice cool 68 degree home at night.

[Servicetech571]

Just did my average from last year to this year. Looks at $73 average. I do not have smarthours. 2400sq home. Trees block all my winds so pretty shady. I know I could lower my bill but I love my nice cool 68 degree home at night.

Smarthours would probably help you if you like it cool at night. 1/2 price power after 7pm.

[BBatesokc]

Just did my average from last year to this year. Looks at $73 average. I do not have smarthours. 2400sq home. Trees block all my winds so pretty shady. I know I could lower my bill but I love my nice cool 68 degree home at night.

We set our's at or around 68 most nights (depending on the outside temp).

[FighttheGoodFight]

Smarthours would probably help you if you like it cool at night. 1/2 price power after 7pm.

Might try it out next year!

We set our's at or around 68 most nights (depending on the outside temp).

Ty for the info!

[d-usa]

We saved about $200 this year, with it at 68 night, 72 from 2pm-7pm, and 70 all other times. We were never uncomfortable and didn’t shift a lot of AC power. Most our savings probably came from simply not running the dishwasher/laundry/dryer from 2p-7p.

Although I did turn into my dad and I’m constantly shutting off lights.

[SSEiYah]

Basically, in a nutshell if you have a newer home, smart hours is worth it, if you have an older home it is not.

[BBatesokc]

Basically, in a nutshell if you have a newer home, smart hours is worth it, if you have an older home it is not.

My house was built in 1964 and SmartHours works great for us.