Bulb Energy

[ukwill]

LivingTheDream said:

I think the tapeworm was trying to find out what his night tariff would be if he switched to a 2 rate tariff.

My rate is listed above but as everyone's rates vary around the country its probably not much use - also the hours may vary depending on where you are and what meter you have. Mine is 1.30am to 8.30am.

I'm trying to figure out if there's anything I could move to the night rate but other than the dishwasher I'm struggling. We usually stick a load of washing on at about 7am so thats covered.

Ah sorry I misunderstood. I've taken a look at our lastest bill and there is no information on it regarding a 2 rate tariff. Presumably this means the price for our energy consumption remains the same, regardless of the time. I thought that it was mostly people with EVs who chose tariffs that were cheaper overnight?

[LivingTheDream]

ukwill said:

Ah sorry I misunderstood. I've taken a look at our lastest bill and there is no information on it regarding a 2 rate tariff. Presumably this means the price for our energy consumption remains the same, regardless of the time. I thought that it was mostly people with EVs who chose tariffs that were cheaper overnight?

We've always had a 2 rate tariff since we bought this place in 2008, never chose it but it was the way it set up. Bulb put us on their one when we moved to them a few years ago.

[ukwill]

LivingTheDream said:

We've always had a 2 rate tariff since we bought this place in 2008, never chose it but it was the way it set up. Bulb put us on their one when we moved to them a few years ago.

Have you compared it to the non 2-rate tariff (if you're not actually using much energy overnight then does it make sense financially?)

[dickymint]

ukwill said:

LivingTheDream said:

We've always had a 2 rate tariff since we bought this place in 2008, never chose it but it was the way it set up. Bulb put us on their one when we moved to them a few years ago.

Have you compared it to the non 2-rate tariff (if you're not actually using much energy overnight then does it make sense financially?)

I think Bulb offered 2 tier to entice Economy 7 users (and EV users of course) to come over. Fine if you use storage heaters I suppose.

[LivingTheDream]

ukwill said:

LivingTheDream said:

We've always had a 2 rate tariff since we bought this place in 2008, never chose it but it was the way it set up. Bulb put us on their one when we moved to them a few years ago.

Have you compared it to the non 2-rate tariff (if you're not actually using much energy overnight then does it make sense financially?)

Not until you suggested it - just done some quick maths:

February- we used 338 kWh of daytime rate and 75kWh at night.

On my new figures from April that would be £152 day and £12.20 night

If I assumed (I don't know what my flat rate would be as they vary) 33.5p per kWh then that equates to £138.35 in total, so £24 a month cheaper in theory - although electricity use will now drop a bit for the spring and summer.

I actually now have an EV but don't charge it at home. If I did AND I could figure out a way to charge it during my night time rate without going out at 1.30 in the morning to put it on, I could charge 40% of the battery during those 7 hours and it would be £2.40 cheaper than where I go now. So save £6 on a full charge.


Edit: not March obviously! February

[BigBen]

The day and night rate for economy 7 gives you a longer 'night' period than the EV tarrif but at a much higher (approx double) unit cost. I think it was something like 38p day and 19p night then I changed to the EV tarrif.

[ukwill]

Tried to login to Bulb only to be informed that we've been moved to Octopus - but have received no email from Octopus (this happened last Thur).

How long was it until you received an email / ability to login to Octopus?

[LivingTheDream]

I received an email last wednesday which was the first I knew of it.

Told me to use my email as a logon on their site (same logon email as was with Bulb) and request a password reset.

That got me on to my account

[Jobbo]

LivingTheDream said:

Told me to use my email as a logon on their site (same logon email as was with Bulb) and request a password reset.

Brilliant, thank you - that worked.

Like you I had the e-mail saying I'd switched but nothing else telling me how to get into my account. I tried using the old Bulb password but it didn't work. The account clearly exists already and the password reset did indeed get me in.

[ukwill]

LivingTheDream said:

I received an email last wednesday which was the first I knew of it.

Told me to use my email as a logon on their site (same logon email as was with Bulb) and request a password reset.

That got me on to my account

Thankyou - that worked for me too.

[thetapeworm]

I hope they don't forget about me, still very bulby here

[rigga]

thetapeworm said:

I hope they don't forget about me, still very bulby here

Last man standing, don't forget to turn the lights off.

[mikey_b]

An oddity today - I checked our joint bank account this morning to find a payment had been taken for Octopus. Normal date, normal amount... So I opened the Bulb app expecting to see a message about having been moved to Octopus, but it makes no mention of that and just shows the monthly payment as 'pending'.

Anyone else seen that? I assume I'll get an email shortly saying I'm now an Octopus customer, but I would really have expected to hear that before the Direct Debit payment was modified.

[thetapeworm]

mikey_b said:

An oddity today - I checked our joint bank account this morning to find a payment had been taken for Octopus. Normal date, normal amount... So I opened the Bulb app expecting to see a message about having been moved to Octopus, but it makes no mention of that and just shows the monthly payment as 'pending'.

Anyone else seen that? I assume I'll get an email shortly saying I'm now an Octopus customer, but I would really have expected to hear that before the Direct Debit payment was modified.

Nothing here still - just a weird one from bulb yesterday, two statements seconds after each other, one showing usage from Feb to today, the other from March and then two credit notes and then two payments taken leaving me £30 better off.

Presumably the recently installed smart meter has influenced this but I'd been giving accurate readings prior to that so I'm not sure.

[98elise]

98elise said:

Mine changed over a couple of days ago.

My smart meter display no longer shows a gas reading. Anyone else had that?

Edited to add...

Now working so if anyone else has the problem it seems to be a temporary issue

Edited by 98elise on Monday 6th March 14:43

The issue came back shortly after being appearing to be ok, now doesn't show anything. The website doesn't show any gas readings, but is showing electricity.

Anyone else having the same issues?

[Lancelot]

mikey_b said:

An oddity today - I checked our joint bank account this morning to find a payment had been taken for Octopus. Normal date, normal amount... So I opened the Bulb app expecting to see a message about having been moved to Octopus, but it makes no mention of that and just shows the monthly payment as 'pending'.

Anyone else seen that? I assume I'll get an email shortly saying I'm now an Octopus customer, but I would really have expected to hear that before the Direct Debit payment was modified.

I went to check after seeing this and it's the same for me.
Payment to Octopus and payment pending in my Bulb account.

[mikey_b]

Lancelot said:

mikey_b said:

An oddity today - I checked our joint bank account this morning to find a payment had been taken for Octopus. Normal date, normal amount... So I opened the Bulb app expecting to see a message about having been moved to Octopus, but it makes no mention of that and just shows the monthly payment as 'pending'.

Anyone else seen that? I assume I'll get an email shortly saying I'm now an Octopus customer, but I would really have expected to hear that before the Direct Debit payment was modified.

I went to check after seeing this and it's the same for me.
Payment to Octopus and payment pending in my Bulb account.

And I've now had the mail... yesterday in fact. So I'm now an Octopus customer, and Bulb is history.

A couple of quirks with the smart reader not showing the price for gas intermittently, but impressively smooth really and all working OK now. All my old bills are moved over too, and I even had a 'Welcome to Octopus' message on the smart meter display.

[thetapeworm]

And I'm an Octopus.

No smart meter messages and the gas side if things seems to be struggling in the Octopus app but impressively painless so far.

[nordboy]

Does that make me the last Bulb customer then??

[thetapeworm]

nordboy said:

Does that make me the last Bulb customer then??

The light switch is yours now