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@Mara

Yep, that shows clearly that the day of the outage is included in the forecast. There's probably no way around that and it's likely to be a rare event, right?The good news is that it didn't really impact you too much. Each prior day has an equal rating in the forecast. If on 5/17 you would typically have used 4 kWh, like the other days, the fact that it is zero on one day means that your forecast is 4/10 lower than it probably would have been....so 0.4.

You saved 3.381 and earned 300 "base points" so you earned 88.73 points per kWh.

An additional 0.4 would have resulted in another 35.5 base points, 18 Gold Status points and 2 Streak bonus points.

Now, if you had been on a longer Streak it could have been a lot more significant!

You have nice steady high usage, is that related to AC or some other energy hog?

@CKWM

I would have expected the same base points per kWh for the same OhmHour ID. That makes perfect sense to me. Even though you are physically close you might not be close enough to receive identical events and it probably depends on the specific "node" you are close to.

My buddy and I are reasonably close but we do not talk. I've tried but it just doesn't happen. Other people just couldn't really care less about the detail and it's never easy to explain how to do the math so I don't really think too much about it any more.

@Bstring and I are not close but we do compare base points earned and they are generally in the same ballpark. Lately though we've been dispatched different events.

Here's the CAISO user guide for some more detail:
http://www.caiso.com/Documents/DemandResponseUserGuide.pdf

It looks to me like the discrepancies when the IDs are the same are just rounding issues. Note they mostly happen when the total number of points for one of you is small. I did see some talk about there being some non-linearity in the way points are awarded per kWh, but I think the discrepancies would be higher if that were the case.

I'm assuming the different OhmHour IDs mean separate bids in the demand-response program. I don't know why they would do that, but maybe they can optimize their returns by aggregating users in more than one group.

@Claudia said:
for this #OhmHour you will be awarded the MEGA bonus if your usage with 0. we won't be able to fix the notification though. we will have correct targets for future MEGA #OhmHours.

So this means if we want the 500 point bonus we need to flip the breaker, right? If we don't flip the breaker it's treated just like a normal OhmHour, correct?

yes. if you miss the MEGA target (adjusted for solar users to be 0 for the event tomorrow) but still beat your regular forecast you still earn points and maintain your streak.

@dkelsey said:
I'm a new Ohm'er and was wondering if there's a general time period that most of the Ohm Hours fall between? The two that I have participated in have both been later in the evening, which really surprised me. Are most Ohm Hours in the after-dinner time range? (I would expect them to be in the heat of the day). Is there someplace I can see a listing of previous Ohm Hours, including prior to joining? Thx.

OhmHours differ by your location so someone in a different ZIP code will have a different experience. During the "heat of the day" there is typically plenty of cheap power available, due to Solar. Google "duck curve" and you'll get some info on why. The problem is typically early evening when Solar generation drops off and people arrive home from work and demand "ramps" up.

Historically, more than 50% of my #OhmHours occur in the 6-8 time-slot. There seems to be a shift this year to slightly later times and this could be due to the "peak time" TOU change from 11-6pm to the new 4-9pm

Here's my experience since Jan 2017.