Octopus energy company. Anyone use 'em?

[Zoon]

rdjohn said:

I am electric only on the Agile tariff. On Saturday I used 25kW for just £0.62p.

I have a Evohome system so the hot water is heated at a low-cost 3;30am tariff.

On the whole, I have saved at least 30% from what I was paying to E-on Next.

We managed 42kW for -£0.24
Unreal

[rdjohn]

Zoon said:

rdjohn said:

I am electric only on the Agile tariff. On Saturday I used 25kW for just £0.62p.

I have a Evohome system so the hot water is heated at a low-cost 3;30am tariff.

On the whole, I have saved at least 30% from what I was paying to E-on Next.

We managed 42kW for -£0.24
Unreal

Wow!! …but I would not like your bills on ordinary days. Perhaps you are charging an EV?

[Zoon]

rdjohn said:

Zoon said:

rdjohn said:

I am electric only on the Agile tariff. On Saturday I used 25kW for just £0.62p.

I have a Evohome system so the hot water is heated at a low-cost 3;30am tariff.

On the whole, I have saved at least 30% from what I was paying to E-on Next.

We managed 42kW for -£0.24
Unreal

Wow!! …but I would not like your bills on ordinary days. Perhaps you are charging an EV?

Yes, there was an EV charge thrown in, plus tumble dryer and washing machine on multiple times.

[markiii]

John87 said:

I was on Agile last year but moved to Intelligent in November. My March bill had an average unit rate of 17.4p because my wife and I both work from home most of the time so can't load shift as much as we would like into the overnight period. We also only charge the EV about 40-60kW per week at the most since I have free charging at work.

I'm thinking it may be worthwhile moving back to Agile for me as I can be quite flexible when charging the car and would likely save more from changing 28p to the usual 10-20p daytime rate than I can at the moment from shifting use to the 7.5p overnight rate. There is no escaping the 4-7pm period for me for kids dinners etc but it worked for me previously as long as we didn't use the washing machine or dishwasher at that time.

The wife is also talking about getting a sex pond/hot tub in the garden so I think this would work well with cheaper weekend rates as we wouldn't be using it at 4am...

I guess youre all in bed by then?

[SteBrown91]

Rang them today (was on hold for what seemed an eternity due to their diabolical hold playlist) but the girl on the phone could see the issue, said she need to run some things and would email me back. About an hour later got an email saying it should be all sorted. Checked the app and still no good but checked again an hour or so later and all data is there.

Hopefully it doesn’t drop off again.

[Downward]

Zoon said:

rdjohn said:

I am electric only on the Agile tariff. On Saturday I used 25kW for just £0.62p.

I have a Evohome system so the hot water is heated at a low-cost 3;30am tariff.

On the whole, I have saved at least 30% from what I was paying to E-on Next.

We managed 42kW for -£0.24
Unreal

51kw for - £0.14 for me !

Got me 150 miles on the car.

£1 Friday for 100 miles on the car.

Think it’s going to be around 0 overnight tonight too.

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rdjohn said:

Zoon said:

rdjohn said:

I am electric only on the Agile tariff. On Saturday I used 25kW for just £0.62p.

I have a Evohome system so the hot water is heated at a low-cost 3;30am tariff.

On the whole, I have saved at least 30% from what I was paying to E-on Next.

We managed 42kW for -£0.24
Unreal

Wow!! …but I would not like your bills on ordinary days. Perhaps you are charging an EV?

Looking at my Agile.
Nearly 12 months in
7720 KW of Electric £1510.
Equivalent on Go £2151


Gas bill has also halved since going to the variable rate which means the debt is reducing nicely and should be in credit by Summer

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clockworks said:

Have Octopus managed to get dual rate tariffs displaying properly on the IHD?

I'm on Octopus Go. I charged the car last night (5 kwh) and the immersion was on (1.5 kwh), and the display was showing £1.60 at 6:45 this morning for just over 8kwh total usage.

IHD is a dumb device.
Get the app Octopus Compare to see your spend.

[clockworks]

Downward said:

IHD is a dumb device.
Get the app Octopus Compare to see your spend.

As I posted a few days ago, my IHD is now showing the correct daily spend on Go, comparing it the the Octopus app and Octoaid. I have an Octopus Mini up and running, so I'm getting the "live" readings, as well as the daily totals.

The IHD only started showing the correct figures after the last tariff update.

[akadk]

Gonna cost a fortune to charge the car tonight

[Defcon5]

I’ve just switched to Octopus.

I have a normal house with gas CH/system boiler. No solar/electric car or anything.

I work shifts, and do all the washing/dishwasher/dryer etc overnight.

Would that, combined with programming the heating/hot water/fridges and freezers to not come on during the 5-8 peak times be enough to make it worthwhile going on the agile tariff over tracker do you think?

[tamore]

Defcon5 said:

I’ve just switched to Octopus.

I have a normal house with gas CH/system boiler. No solar/electric car or anything.

I work shifts, and do all the washing/dishwasher/dryer etc overnight.

Would that, combined with programming the heating/hot water/fridges and freezers to not come on during the 5-8 peak times be enough to make it worthwhile going on the agile tariff over tracker do you think?

depends on the rest of your usage really. sometimes even the night rates aren't particularly cheap in the middle of winter when the wind drops. tonight however, i'm being paid to charge the car.

if you can be really selective about usage, agile is great.

[pingu393]

tamore said:

Defcon5 said:

I’ve just switched to Octopus.

I have a normal house with gas CH/system boiler. No solar/electric car or anything.

I work shifts, and do all the washing/dishwasher/dryer etc overnight.

Would that, combined with programming the heating/hot water/fridges and freezers to not come on during the 5-8 peak times be enough to make it worthwhile going on the agile tariff over tracker do you think?

depends on the rest of your usage really. sometimes even the night rates aren't particularly cheap in the middle of winter when the wind drops. tonight however, i'm being paid to charge the car.

if you can be really selective about usage, agile is great.

Yes, don't forget that your background is on 24/7/365 and between 1600 and 1900, the rate was above std var.

It's only a bed of roses if you tend the garden

[Hereward]

Downward said:

...Gas bill has also halved since going to the variable rate which means the debt is reducing nicely and should be in credit by Summer

I was recently migrated to Octopus having been a Shell customer.

I have an outdoor swimming pool, heated with gas on a standard meter. It is typically only heated June-August.

I am wondering if moving to a smart gas meter would enable me to access cheaper gas in that 3 month period? In my mind that is a low-demand period so the tracker prices may be lower than the fixed rate tariffs?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

It's 4p even at the moment for gas on tracker

[SpidersWeb]

Defcon5 said:

I’ve just switched to Octopus.

I have a normal house with gas CH/system boiler. No solar/electric car or anything.

I work shifts, and do all the washing/dishwasher/dryer etc overnight.

Would that, combined with programming the heating/hot water/fridges and freezers to not come on during the 5-8 peak times be enough to make it worthwhile going on the agile tariff over tracker do you think?

With no EV then with Agile the savings will be small or non-existent.

I swapped to Agile at the start of March, and similar to you I have a normal house with gas CH/system boiler, no solar or battery, no cooking between 4pm and 7pm and dishwasher and washing machine on at cheap times, but I do have an EV.

Doing the calculations for the cost of electricity for March, and excluding that used to charge my EV which was done at the cheapest times, then the average unit cost of the electricity used in the house on Agile was 15.5p/kWh.

In comparison Tracker for March averaged 18.5p/kWh and I could have used whatever electricity I wanted at whatever time I wanted.

Therefore for my usage (ignoring the EV) the potential saving on Agile is 3p/kWh which for the Ofgem average medium sized household using 2700kWh a year is a saving of £81.

For me being able to charge my EV at the cheapest times makes Agile worthwhile, but if I didn't have the EV I am not sure that I would bother jumping through the hoops of time shifting to save that £81 a year.

[Defcon5]

Thanks for the replies. Tracker it is then.

[MrJuice]

Yep, I did the maths on EV charging and still felt tracker was better than any overnight tariffs.

[SpidersWeb]

MrJuice said:

Yep, I did the maths on EV charging and still felt tracker was better than any overnight tariffs.

With EV charging then Agile comes down to 14p/kWh for me for the whole of my consumption, so slightly more worthwhile, however as I am in a free electricity 'Power-Up' region then those sessions took it down to 9p/kWh for March.

[guitarcarfanatic]

Yeh Tracker works out there or there abouts for me and my EV when compared to Agile and Intelligent Go. I like not having to think about it so Tracker it is!