-
Want to remove ads? Register an account and login to see fewer ads, and become a Supporting Member to remove almost all ads.
New Octopus Go tariff and off peak options?
- Thread starter vitesse
- Start date
I used the numbers from the Octopus website at the time, and I averaged the whole dataset as it's not realistic to run a full simulation for every day of the year. I assume prices are dependent on things like wind and sun, so would be interested to know how prices can be predicted to the degree where anyone can be confident to say that Agile saved them money. The peak times are also manageable from most points of view, except for the oven which is needed to prepare the evening meal.
I don't have access to my own spreadsheet right now (blocked by my work firewall), but I don't remember anything about a specific usage pattern for Agile? I explained that I put the car charging block against the cheapest times I could find (in the early am).
Pretty much what I'm doing as well. On Go now and calculating the Agile cost each day using my actual usage pattern and the actual Agile prices.
Very easy to do using the API.
Average over the last 11 weeks, Agile is 10% cheaper.
... but. I'm currently not trying to maximise Agile savings, just carrying on life as normal.
I'd estimate with very minor planning that 10% could easily double.
MrBadger
Badger out
Yes, even so, we are low users in the early hours of the peak period and typically only use about 10% of our daily power consumption in that 3 hour period.
One easy saving if we did move to Agile would be not starting the car charging at 00:30 as that is typically not the cheapest rate for the night.
MrBadger
Badger out
Good to know agile works even for those who cook on electric. I’ll add it to the list of tarrifs to compare but don’t have enough real charge data at present (currently limited to 10A) to base a comparison on.
That’s the display from a USB Glow Stick, supplied free of charge by Octopus.
The app is called Bright, from the company that make the Glow Stick.
AFAIK the Glow Stick is only compatible with SMETS1 meters.
MrBadger
Badger out
I'm looking for something that gets near real time (elec) power and (gas & elec) energy data direct from a SMETS2 meter if anyone knows of anything. The only things that I have seem to be SMETS1, but its likely to be fairly standard Zigbee and an open protocol as used for the in home displays. Api data is too coarse. I'm ideally after 5 minute (or better) cumulative consumption and export energy readings.
Sadly I reached the same conclusion.
It would be nice to get the data direct but for now at least there aren't any easy solutions for SMETS2
MrBadger
Badger out
Thanks but apparently not SMETS2 compatible otherwise I think it would have been what I was after.
I might still contact them now I know what meter I have as it’s not obvious what is or is not supported.
I might still contact them now I know what meter I have as it’s not obvious what is or is not supported.
I did look into the Hildebrand products a while ago, but unless something has changed recently the issue is that although they have a SMETS2 compatible product they only supply it directly to energy companies, not to end users...
What we want to do is to be able to attached Consumer Access Devices (CAD) to the Home Area Network (HAN) and while the legislation and the various licenses do envisage allowing consumers to do this, there is no detail behind it to cover how this is to be achieved...
If anyone can figure it out I'd guess that would be Octopus so maybe it is time to reach out to the CEO and see if it is on their radar...
If anyone can figure it out I'd guess that would be Octopus so maybe it is time to reach out to the CEO and see if it is on their radar...
Similar threads
