Octopus energy company. Anyone use 'em?

[Skodillac]

Ah, OK. Thanks.

[Skodillac]

Have now jumped from Tracker (gas) to the 16 month fixed. Whilst I've been on tracker (which isn't very long as I was pretty late to realise such a thing existed for gas), it's been roughly below the standard price as much as it has been above it, so I reckon I'm even. Spider senses telling me the price of gas isn't going to come down in the next 2 years, so might as well fix now.

Staying on Agile for electricity, it's still working for me.

[lost in espace]

I have 2 EV's no solar no battery. I had jumpted to Cosy from Agile, my cost per kwh dropped to an average of 18p with everything loadshifted. Moved to Tomato EV Lifestyle, was easy and my bill has literally halved. Until they go bust of course! Moved from gas tracker to fixed at 6p a few weeks ago.

edit Rough calcs look like 8p a unit over the day charging a car during the 6 hour cheap period.

Edited by lost in espace on Monday 10th February 15:37

[Howard-]

KTF said:

Have you put your details into here and set the from/to dates to see what the cost would be for the various options?

https://www.octopriceuk.app/compare

I just want to say thank you so much for this link, I'd not come across it before and it has put my mind at rest in regards to the recent pricing on my tracker tariffs! Very handy indeed.

[Crudeoink]

Crudeoink said:

We signed up to Octopus a few nights ago. Looking to go onto the dumb EV tariff (Octopus Go?) as neither our charger or car is compatible with their intelligent tariff. We've had to go onto one of their normal tariffs until we can get a SMETS2 smart meter fitted, no idea how long this will take but hopefully not too long as I'd like to be able to charge the Phev for 8.5p/kWh over night! Any idea how long it takes from being switched to octopus to getting on a Go tariff? Reading around it seems we need to go on every Monday and try and get a slot for the smart meter fitting but seems a bit of a PITA

Replying to this incase anyone else is looking for the same information. We managed to get a booking almost as soon as the switch to octupus had gone through, chap should be turning up on Saturday to fit the meters so fingers crossed we can get onto Go by the end of the month.

[KTF]

Howard- said:

I just want to say thank you so much for this link, I'd not come across it before and it has put my mind at rest in regards to the recent pricing on my tracker tariffs! Very handy indeed.

No problem. There are many apps/websites that take advantage of the octopus api and customer smart meter data to create useful tools like that page.

[Somebody]

Skodillac said:

Spider senses telling me the price of gas isn't going to come down in the next 2 years, so might as well fix now.

Gas down a chunk tomorrow. Well below 6p/kWh for the first time since 17/1/25 on Eastern Tracker Dec '23

[KTF]

I noticed that as well. Am wondering if it’s some sort of error given the current prices shown here:

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uk-natural-...

[Skodillac]

Somebody said:

Skodillac said:

Spider senses telling me the price of gas isn't going to come down in the next 2 years, so might as well fix now.

Gas down a chunk tomorrow. Well below 6p/kWh for the first time since 17/1/25 on Eastern Tracker Dec '23

For the love of Christ I can get nothing right.

[LordGrover]

KTF said:

Have you put your details into here and set the from/to dates to see what the cost would be for the various options?

https://www.octopriceuk.app/compare

Interesting and useful, ta.
It appears to confirm I've had it right over the last year, though my Gas Tracker finishes in a few days and switched to Fixed.
Time will tell...

[Byker28i]

At the moment for me on Variable electricity is coming out the cheapest, which is what I'm on.

For Gas and electric , on Flexible
Current annual amount: £2,342.17

If I change to Gas fixed, Electric fixed...

Estimated Annual amount... £2,340.40

[richatnort]

Howard- said:

KTF said:

Have you put your details into here and set the from/to dates to see what the cost would be for the various options?

https://www.octopriceuk.app/compare

I just want to say thank you so much for this link, I'd not come across it before and it has put my mind at rest in regards to the recent pricing on my tracker tariffs! Very handy indeed.

Thanks for this too! What a tool! Very interesting for my usage that the tracker has been the cheapest.

[Jungleland]

Crudeoink said:

Replying to this incase anyone else is looking for the same information. We managed to get a booking almost as soon as the switch to octupus had gone through, chap should be turning up on Saturday to fit the meters so fingers crossed we can get onto Go by the end of the month.

Thanks for this - I've had octopus for a while but recently got a phev so looking at the ev tarrif, finding it difficult to find on their website how to sort this in terms of a smart meter - there was a button that just said mysteriously 'register interest', which I have, but no idea what happens from there. I assume you need that for the ev tarrif in order to use the cheap night charging?

[outnumbered]

Jungleland said:

Thanks for this - I've had octopus for a while but recently got a phev so looking at the ev tarrif, finding it difficult to find on their website how to sort this in terms of a smart meter - there was a button that just said mysteriously 'register interest', which I have, but no idea what happens from there. I assume you need that for the ev tarrif in order to use the cheap night charging?

Yes, you need the smart meter for any of the interesting tariffs.

[Cabbage Patch]

richatnort said:

Howard- said:

KTF said:

Have you put your details into here and set the from/to dates to see what the cost would be for the various options?

https://www.octopriceuk.app/compare

I just want to say thank you so much for this link, I'd not come across it before and it has put my mind at rest in regards to the recent pricing on my tracker tariffs! Very handy indeed.

Thanks for this too! What a tool! Very interesting for my usage that the tracker has been the cheapest.

It’s a good tool, confirms that IOG is 33% cheaper than variable given my usage now, but anyone looking to swap to a time of use tariff needs to take the effect of load shifting into account.

I was on Tracker for electricity before and my load shifting consisted of deciding whether to charge the car that day or the following one once pricing was released. The month before I switched from Tracker it was 17% less than IOG. The month following the switch IOG, was 31% cheaper than Tracker. I load shift the car charging, dishwasher and washing machine to 11.30 pm now.

[Crudeoink]

Jungleland said:

Thanks for this - I've had octopus for a while but recently got a phev so looking at the ev tarrif, finding it difficult to find on their website how to sort this in terms of a smart meter - there was a button that just said mysteriously 'register interest', which I have, but no idea what happens from there. I assume you need that for the ev tarrif in order to use the cheap night charging?

We also 'Registered interest' once the switch went through and we were offered a slot for the smart meter to be fitted within a couple of days. As far as i can tell they make sure your area has sufficient 4g / 5g coverage so the meter can reliably report, assuming all ok they will email you offering the smart meter when they have smart meter technicians in the area, this is probably more frequent in urban areas. We got lucky and within a day or two of moving and registering our interest we got offered a slot.

Our PHEV only has a 12kwh battery but we're relatively light electricity users anyways so the PHEV was pretty much doubling our daily usage. We should be going from about £3 to charge the PHEV to about £1 to charge it which will make quite the difference over a year! If we can switch our habits to use the washing machine / dishwasher over night that will make a difference too.

[Cabbage Patch]

Saving session 5.30 to 6.30pm today.

[Chris Type R]

Cabbage Patch said:

Saving session 5.30 to 6.30pm today.

~12p in our area - not sure it's worth it.

[Mikey G]

So, I would imagine most people on Tracker by now have either left the tariff or changed providors, but has anybody stayed on it?
I left Octopus for electricity just before christmas, still have gas with them but i'm on the 14M fixed now.
I wonder how many people have left Octopus since the prices started creeping up and the algorithm they use for daily prices has changed?
I spoke to someone who works on the engineering side of the company and he seems to think its starting to go downhill for them, people are complaining to him about the quality of service they are now getting compared to a couple of years ago.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

I'm still on tracker