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Octopus has been having ‘backend’ problems with switches from Flux to IO. When I called them last week, they moved my Flux export to Outgoing Fixed. When I did an IO test charge, the IO import tariff was showing against the Export MPAN: that is, I ended up with 2 import tariffs. The short-term...

A Kaifa meter firmware update is due to be rolled out this month.

Just in case those on the TEP haven't noticed, Octopus has issued new import/export rates of between 10 and 12p/kWh depending on region and a 22p/day standing charge. I cannot confirm but the 8p Tesla EV owners' rate appears to have disappeared. Go and Go Faster peak rates have also increased...

The TEP has just changed and it includes a daily standing charge of 22p/day.

The TEP has just changed with rates of 10 to 12p/kWh for non Tesla EV owners and a daily standing charge of 22p/day. My 7kWp array and Powerwall2 comes in at an annual cost of £508 per year. if I ignored SEG, my annual non TEP cost is less than £120 per year. I can only think that there must be...

Octopus Agile; Go and Go Faster are all single register tariffs with billing based on 30 minute usage. Sadly, this gives Octopus something of a challenge. To pull this data, Octopus uses a third-party Adaptor provided by its Data Collector TMA. If any 30 minute usage data period is missing...

Last night we had storm force winds so rather than set the PW2 to StormWatch, I cranked up the %backup. Immediately, the PW2 charge rate increased to 5kWs. Previously, the maximum charge rate has been c.3.6kWs. Is this change possibly related to the recent firmware update? I should add that the...

If you have issues then I suggest an email to [email protected] which avoids CS staff. For those who want to monitor their costs there are excellent apps such as Octopus Watch; Octopus Watchdog and Octopus Compare. For those who want lots of data; Bill checkers etc you should look at Guy...

A simple minimum SoC at ‘x’ time would solve the problem. Yesterday, my panels generated 7kWhs from a starting SoC of 16% at 8am. The previous day’s generation was 16kWhs. This morning, I woke up to find a battery SoC of 30% with little forecast sun. I cannot see the battery getting us through...

Yes, that is how it works. My Octopus bill today shows an export meter reading that matches A-.

Have a look at Tracker prices on Guy Lipman’s excellent website. Unit prices were over 30p/kWh a few days ago.

That’s one way of looking at it.

Thanks. That is quite an amount of energy transfer. I just wonder what effect it is having on long-term battery life.

Can I ask what sort of daily churn you are getting; ie, charge versus discharge? The only problem that I have with the Tesla Plan (apart from not really understanding it) is that ‘generators’ have been getting over a £1 KWh recently during Agile peak periods. Someone is making quite a lot of...

Smart meters are commissioned when they are installed. My Account was showing data the following day for the new electricity meter. My gas meter failed the commissioning process as it times out after 59 minutes. I got an email from Octopus asking me to press the two buttons required to restart...