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Glad you posted that Brydo, made my mind up. Switching to Octopus at the end of FEB.
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Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
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Scale modeller in my spare time
----------------------------Current thinking is Octopus Go works out cheaper in the winter and Octopus Agile works out cheaper the rest of the year, you can of course switch between the two tariffs, the only restriction currently being that you remain with the tariff you switch to for at least a month.
As an example, in my area Octopus Agile never gets cheaper than 7.37p/kWh tonight & last night the lowest was 6.70p/kW, wheras Octopus Go would have been 5p/kWh of course. Octopus Agile at 2:30-3:00pm this afternoon hit the cheap point of 12.61p/kWh, but during recent periods of low winds was often 35p/kWh (35p/kWh is the price cap on Octopus Agile).
Come Sunday night Octopus Agile will probably be cheaper if the forecast winds arrive to spin those turbines.
During summer months less electricity is needed for overnight heating so the price of overnight electricity drops with a good breeze & can go negative. During the summer days the excess solar around midday also pushes the prices down in a similar fashion but unlikely they’ll go negative during the daytime.
Current thinking is Octopus Go works out cheaper in the winter and Octopus Agile works out cheaper the rest of the year, you can of course switch between the two tariffs, the only restriction currently being that you remain with the tariff you switch to for at least a month. As an example, in my area Octopus Agile never gets cheaper than 7.37p/kWh tonight & last night the lowest was 6.70p/kW, wheras Octopus Go would have been 5p/kWh of course. Octopus Agile at 2:30-3:00pm this afternoon hit the cheap point of 12.61p/kWh, but during recent periods of low winds was often 35p/kWh (35p/kWh is the price cap on Octopus Agile). Come Sunday night Octopus Agile will probably be cheaper if the forecast winds arrive to spin those turbines. During summer months less electricity is needed for overnight heating so the price of overnight electricity drops with a good breeze & can go negative. During the summer days the excess solar around midday also pushes the prices down in a similar fashion but unlikely they’ll go negative during the daytime.
When i put in my details, car/usage etc it advised me to switch to Octopus Direct fixed for 12m. Im useless at this sort of stuff because im just lazy, but now im confused lol
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Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
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Scale modeller in my spare time
----------------------------OK, Octopus Go & Octopus Agile are not actual tariffs, they’re kinda experimental, so when I signed up a few months back following the links to Octopus Agile it gave me the Octopus Direct fixed tariff for 12m & said that they would switch me to Agile once they had some half-hour smart meter readings to see if they could get reliable data. The critical thing is that they can get the usage for each half-hour period so they can charge you properly. I have a SMETS 2 meter so it only took two or three weeks before “The Octopus went Agile!”, I’d assume similar timescale for Octopus Go.
The other thing that you probably don’t know yet is that there are also Octopus Go Faster tariffs where the cost could be say 5.5p/kWh for 5 hours instead of the 4 hours with Go, and the time period covered could start at say 8:30 in the evening if you’re lucky. You could likely switch on to an Octopus Go Faster tariff at some time in the future if you fancied cheap electric at a different time.
OK, Octopus Go & Octopus Agile are not actual tariffs, they’re kinda experimental, so when I signed up a few months back following the links to Octopus Agile it gave me the Octopus Direct fixed tariff for 12m & said that they would switch me to Agile once they had some half-hour smart meter readings to see if they could get reliable data. The critical thing is that they can get the usage for each half-hour period so they can charge you properly. I have a SMETS 2 meter so it only took two or three weeks before “The Octopus went Agile!”, I’d assume similar timescale for Octopus Go. The other thing that you probably don’t know yet is that there are also Octopus Go Faster tariffs where the cost could be say 5.5p/kWh for 5 hours instead of the 4 hours with Go, and the time period covered could start at say 8:30 in the evening if you’re lucky. You could likely switch on to an Octopus Go Faster tariff at some time in the future if you fancied cheap electric at a different time.
Gotcha thanks for that, informative as usual.
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Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
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Scale modeller in my spare time
----------------------------My current energy supplier Igloo energy has a limited EV charging tariff compatible with Tesla and Rolec chargers.
On a wider point, Paul Lewis was tweeting today advising people to take a photo of their electricity meter as some energy companies have gone bust recently.
Kia Soul 2020 EV
My current energy supplier Igloo energy has a limited EV charging tariff compatible with Tesla and Rolec chargers. On a wider point, Paul Lewis was tweeting today advising people to take a photo of their electricity meter as some energy companies have gone bust recently.
Sorry, looking at this a bit more closely it is actually smart charging for when there is a light load on the grid. They do give you 100 miles a month though.
Kia Soul 2020 EV
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Also there is huge criticism in online forums with EDF and similar companies promising an EV tariff with cheap evening rates but it is reliant on getting a smart 2 compatible meter – which in some parts of the country is years away. So some of the big players advertise a great EV rate but in reality you’ll be lucky to get on them. There are even cases were the smart 2 meters are fitted but are not a suitable specifications of the provider (EDF), So renders them useless. Your them stuck onto an expensive standard rate until this is resolved and in many cases it is never resolved.</p>
They electricity companies need to get their acts together and sort this mess out.OK, Octopus Go & Octopus Agile are not actual tariffs, they’re kinda experimental, so when I signed up a few months back following the links to Octopus Agile it gave me the Octopus Direct fixed tariff for 12m & said that they would switch me to Agile once they had some half-hour smart meter readings to see if they could get reliable data. The critical thing is that they can get the usage for each half-hour period so they can charge you properly. I have a SMETS 2 meter so it only took two or three weeks before “The Octopus went Agile!”, I’d assume similar timescale for Octopus Go. The other thing that you probably don’t know yet is that there are also Octopus Go Faster tariffs where the cost could be say 5.5p/kWh for 5 hours instead of the 4 hours with Go, and the time period covered could start at say 8:30 in the evening if you’re lucky. You could likely switch on to an Octopus Go Faster tariff at some time in the future if you fancied cheap electric at a different time.
I changed my Electric and Gas to Octopus November 2018, then updated to Octopus Go tariff in January 2020, the whole transaction was seamless to date including the meter changes, I am still approximately £20 a month better off than my old supplier Southern Electric even with charging up my PHEV.
For some reason we cannot get the Octopus Go faster rate in our area, just the Go rate, I am not brave enough to us the Agile rate
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally say the wrong thing.
I changed my Electric and Gas to Octopus November 2018, then updated to Octopus Go tariff in January 2020, the whole transaction was seamless to date including the meter changes, I am still approximately £20 a month better off than my old supplier Southern Electric even with charging up my PHEV. For some reason we cannot get the Octopus Go faster rate in our area, just the Go rate, I am not brave enough to us the Agile rate
The Agile rate is for people who can shift pretty much all electricity usage around the electricity prices for those 1/2 hour slots, so people with powerwalls etc., plus perhaps people who live on their own like me who can simply please themselves when they eat, watch a television, etc. I’m looking at some power storage electrickery to use a lot of spare LiFePO4 cells I still have laying around unused (80 x 15aH, so enough to power the house between recharges for perhaps two days, plus I’ll put some solar panels up to help).
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