Extended until 26/07 - Half-price electricity every Sunday 11am to 4pm

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British Gas has extended their PeakSave Sundays scheme until the 2024 Paris Olympics which starts on 26th July. PeakSavers can now take advantage of five hours of half-price electricity every Sunday from 11am to 4pm.

How will PeakSave Sundays work?

You'll need to sign up to PeakSave. We’ll then get in touch to let you know when you’re up and running or the next steps to get involved.

There will be a half-price electricity event every Sunday all the way to the Paris 2024 Games this summer.
You don’t need to sign up to each one – once everything’s set up, we’ll let you know and we’ll automatically include you in every PeakSave Sunday.
During the five-hour events, use as much electricity as you need.
Your smart meter will tell us how much you used, and we'll work out your credit.
After each event, we’ll credit half of what you spent back to your account and the payment will show up as 'PeakSave Sunday Credit' on your next bill or online statement. If you prepay for your electricity, your credit will be automatically added to your meter each month - normally within 10 working days after the month ends.
Each month, we’ll email you a summary of how much you’ve saved.

Eligibility

To be eligible to take part in the PeakSave Sundays scheme you must meetthe following conditions:

• You must be aged 18 or over.
• Be a current British Gas residential electricity supply customer (excluding landlords).
• Have a smart meter operating in credit mode which is is sending us regular meter readings. Youmust also be opted in to half-hourly meter readings.

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23 h, 23 m ago
If you have a "working" smart meter
16 h, 39 m ago
There's four million that aren't. Check here if yours is. (edited)
23 h, 21 m ago
I’ve been doing washing and drying on Sundays between the hours they say but my savings are only around £2.50 a month
22 h, 33 m ago
it's the biggest scam, i shifted my stuff in hours only to save 0.20p or less, stoped bothering.
22 h, 44 m ago
Octopus Agile is roughly a third off the capped price for electricity if you avoid using electric in the 4-7pm period (which is more than the capped price), the only problem for me is that the rip-off standing charge is now more than my electric use - Ofgem not looking after low use consumers, it has doubled in a few years. Judging by the accents Octopus has a UK based call centre, which works ok, btw. If you google search Octopus £50 you should find a link that gets you a £50 sign up bonus if new customer, or search this site.
22 h, 36 m ago
Octopus raised prices recently too. I have been with their Agile tariff and left them. It looked like great prices they offer, but they are more expensive in monthly grand total than British Gas standard. As you mentioned, 4-7pm is bloody expensive, but that's when I am home most of the days after work and use electricity mostly. Yes, I have tried to play their game, avoiding peak price hours, but what a hassle it is. Felt like a slave to Octopus. No more! (edited)
42 m ago
Stay away from BG!
22 h, 44 m ago
Whoopee.. I can save another 50p per month.. Whilst BG makes millions in profit
23 h, 8 m ago
please just switch to octopus lol
18 h, 52 m ago
You should be able to use it at all times without a price differential. You're heading down a rocky road. Soon only the rich can use it in.the day and poor late at night
17 h, 51 m ago

I've saved £50.00 since it started, do all the washing and tumble drying on Sunday.
16 h, 28 m ago
Tumble drying? - check out the count of monte cristo over here
3 h, 26 m ago
I'm not sure why anyone isn't on the Octopus Tracker tariff? Prices have been very stable for the last year and average about 19p per Kwh for electricity and 4p per Kwh for gas. I can send someone a link too if they want to switch and get £50 (plus I will get £50 😁).
3 h, 19 m ago
Some people just like to buy BG ceo's another yacht i guess........but i do everyday with octopus what BG are graciously allowing their consumers to do for 5 hours on a Sunday, assuming they even have a smart meter to get this scraps from BG plate. lol
18 h, 15 m ago
It's not half price as someone else is paying for it. It's a Ponzi scheme.
23 h, 0 m ago
They keep on extending..........Long may it continue. Every little helps and because we save everything (washing, charging, cleaning) unitl Sunday it does save us a decent amount.
17 h, 15 m ago
My smart meter stopped working in January and they said it could be weeks or months before it’s working again. I’ve just switched to EDF today
29 m ago
Mine also stopped in Jan but started working again on the 2nd April. They didn't tell me until I called them to query why my march bill was estimated.

Apparently they have an internal problem with smets 1 meters.

I now have the delightful job of checking that they have charged me correctly taking into account the peak save rates when I charged my EV.
16 h, 25 m ago
I've got solar panels four to six hours free electricity and with battery 2 hours more
15 h, 37 m ago
Only if the sun shines! Down in the SW it's not been spotted since Christmas.
4 h, 9 m ago
By far the worse company & customer service !

They've lost a lot of loyal customers & have hardly ever offered anything back clearly this is there way of trying to win customers back. Who's sits at home on a Sunday? Where all up at 12mid day/1pm after a late Saturday night, go out for lunch as a family, don't finish till 2pm straight to my parents house/friends house till 6pm maybe even 7pm at times.
No offense to the OP I'm just saying Sundays most people are out and about at the pub, family or friends doing things outside regardless of the weather..

Anyway It would be stupid to keep all your dirty dishes and laundry piled up till Sunday where it's half price electrics
3 h, 56 m ago
Agreed took them to the ombudsman, and won. Left them now thank goodness
19 m ago
AVOID British Gas....AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!

I honestly don't know why anyone would remain with this atrocious company if they weren't in my situation. Due to a smart meter with a firmware fault, the only company I could get an E.V. tariff with (for a long time at least) was BG. I'm now with Octopus who are superb. But man, I think I wish I'd just moved anyway, despite the savings.

Throughout my time with BG I had horrendous C.S.. The worst part is getting through to them, whether by phone or online, the queue is often hours, no joke. Try joining their online system in the day, you'll be one of 840 (or some other preposterous figure) in line, I'm genuinely not exaggerating. My account with them was always in a perpetual state of being moved to a new system which always was a problem in the years I was with them. It meant that some details were found on one page, some on another, and when I called them, I'd often have to be transferred because the agent couldn't access my details, being as I was on the new system. I cannot express how dreadful they are to deal with, easily the worst I've had full stop.

I logged a formal complaint with them eventually over the way one of my calls was handled. It was when I was trying to setup my EV tariff, and after waiting over an hour online the chat agent told me I had to ring a particular number, which I begrudgingly did, and then after waiting 45 mins the person I spoke to said I had to do it online because my account was on a different system...ARGGHHH!!. I told the agent I refused to accept this as I had come from there, and that she must be able to help or transfer me to the right person, to which she said in a stern and uncaring tone "Nobody at British Gas can help you if you don't go online to do it", I must confess I did lose my temper somewhat at this stage and barraged the agent with how awful a company they are to deal with (no swearing or anything, just obvious anger)....I might as well I shouted at the neighbors cat for all the reaction I got...I suppose working as an agent for BG they were used to it.

This deal could be for free electricity every other day, I wouldn't go back to them. AVOID!!! (edited)