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The amount that you earn is dependent on two things: 1) the amount of kWh saved and 2) the market value of the #OhmHour. If you are a low energy user from the beginning and do not typically use more than 1kWh during a given #OhmHour, you may not earn more than $50 / year. That is simply because you don't have as much energy to save (and therefore negawatts to create).

As for the market value of an #OhmHour, we typically see major hours in the winter and summer drive much higher value. For example, on June 21st, 2017, we had a single two hour #OhmHour that was equal to the value of six normal #OhmHours. We also had one of these large value #OhmHours in September 2nd, 2017. We consider these "MEGA" #OhmHours, and you'll be hearing more about those "MEGA" #OhmHours as we get into the summer.

The California ISO (CAISO) calculates your forecasted usage (aka baseline) based on the prior 10 days at a given hour. While we have to use this calculation, we have worked to get a forecast that is more reflective of your actual usage. One of the things we have seen is that as we are one of the first companies working with the actual data, we are finding sometimes that data is inaccurate. If you are seeing a 0.0003 kWh requirement, that is likely because you either have solar or perhaps have a broken meter.

Haha, good question - we constantly look at different features from other products that we like to see what would be useful to include at OhmConnect.

Yes, inevitably, as we get more solar and wind on the grid, a platform like OhmConnect will exist across the world. At our core, we are using information to connect the energy world with our personal lives more intelligently. Whether it is OhmConnect or something similar, the energy sector will require us to be smarter about our individual energy usage while respecting individual mindshare.

Apologize about some of the challenges we have had. As a new program, we have run into a number of bugs as we try to build virtual power plants from software. We have worked through some of these opt out issues but unfortunately, some still persists. I'm sorry you've had to go through our customer support to get corrected. All I can ask is you to bear with us as we try and get everything correct operationally.