Octopus energy company. Anyone use 'em?
Discussion
Durzel said:
I don’t know why it’s so bad tomorrow. It’s been windy, it’s been sunny, so what gives?
It's not windy. Sun is average. Lots of gas power plants unavailable for various reasons. Could be a common occurrence over winter, wholesale prices for tomorrow are high but not surprisingly so.
essayer said:
One of the reactors at Heysham is unexpectedly offline, so the grid is 550MW down. Plus it’s not very windy
And loads down for maintenance. Is this all Covid related?https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-station/dai...
Evanivitch said:
essayer said:
One of the reactors at Heysham is unexpectedly offline, so the grid is 550MW down. Plus it’s not very windy
And loads down for maintenance. Is this all Covid related?https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-station/dai...
Not Covid related except Sizewell 2 which is off at the request of National Grid, the others are a mix of refuellers, graphite inspections and statutory outages. And dungeness, which is just a bit broken.
Edited by Condi on Monday 24th August 08:18
Interesting.
Is that middle-of-the-night price of about 5p reliable on Agile? Almost always there or thereabouts?
I'm on 'Go', to charge the electric car, but if Agile is essentially the same in those early hours, it might be better to switch.
I should be able to cajole our Tesla Powerwall to carry us though that painful 30+p evening shift.
Is that middle-of-the-night price of about 5p reliable on Agile? Almost always there or thereabouts?
I'm on 'Go', to charge the electric car, but if Agile is essentially the same in those early hours, it might be better to switch.
I should be able to cajole our Tesla Powerwall to carry us though that painful 30+p evening shift.
SpeckledJim said:
Interesting.
Is that middle-of-the-night price of about 5p reliable on Agile? Almost always there or thereabouts?
I'm on 'Go', to charge the electric car, but if Agile is essentially the same in those early hours, it might be better to switch.
I should be able to cajole our Tesla Powerwall to carry us though that painful 30+p evening shift.
I would say 95% of the time yes.Is that middle-of-the-night price of about 5p reliable on Agile? Almost always there or thereabouts?
I'm on 'Go', to charge the electric car, but if Agile is essentially the same in those early hours, it might be better to switch.
I should be able to cajole our Tesla Powerwall to carry us though that painful 30+p evening shift.
custardkid said:
Thats the tracking i want to do... Is that an app or a manual graph?
https://octopuscomparison.netlify.app
Yes been a bad week so far, the big array just off the Coast near barrow was idle @teatime, a bit more wind would be good.
However Agile is working for me so far, we just make sure we run dryer and washer off peak hours, the worst consumer remaining is the oven 2 or 3 days a week for tea.
Of course the house load pales into insignificance if we were using the I-Pace more. I looked at octopus go, but wanted dthe practicality of more charging hours a day. Anything thats better than 13p standard tariff is good.
However Agile is working for me so far, we just make sure we run dryer and washer off peak hours, the worst consumer remaining is the oven 2 or 3 days a week for tea.
Of course the house load pales into insignificance if we were using the I-Pace more. I looked at octopus go, but wanted dthe practicality of more charging hours a day. Anything thats better than 13p standard tariff is good.
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