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Hello everyone! We've turned up the heat this summer — with MEGA #OhmHours and lots of new prizes and rewards! Folks are excited and want to beat their forecast and MEGA goal, but aren't always sure exactly how they can do that.

So, we're starting this thread as a place for everyone to share their best tips & tricks for rocking each and every #OhmHour.

What do you do to make sure you always beat your forecast for a regular #OhmHour? What about if it's a MEGA #OhmHour, what do you do differently? What do you do to make sure your family (or just you!) is in-the-know when there's an #OhmHour coming up?

Reply here and share your wisdom!

@Kate from OhmConnect said:
The February 1st event was a standard but unlikely event. We usually receive advance notice that we'll need users to participate in an #OhmHour, but very occasionally we're notified just moments ahead of time. Because we have such little warning, we pass that on to you as quickly as we can -- but it's still not very much time. When this happens, the grid is very strained and really needs our resources.

I understand it's frustrating to have little time, but these types of #OhmHours are a part of OhmConnect.

I'm glad you can see it would be frustrating to lose a streak due to little or no notice; and I don't think anyone is suggesting that such events are out of place with OhmConnect; rather, the point the OP seems to be making is that something can be done to make it not frustrating as the frustration is a result of policy, not of the event. There certainly must be some trade-off OhmConnect actively considers, such as how high the bonuses need to be to get people interested and maximize reductions vs how hard those bonuses are to keep(and therefore how much frustration we should face) in order to maintain payouts. If uncommon, little-notice events are one aspect of that trade-off, then it would suffice to say "that's how the program is designed to maintain high incentives and maximize reductions"(I think most people respect the need to maintain profitability); but if it is as you suggest that you simply had little notice therefore participants had little notice, and you would prefer to give us more notice if possible, then the frustration seems to serve no-one and could likely be eliminated. Thanks for listening.