Octopus ‘Go’ getting paid to use Electricity

[NewbieT]

Started this thread last bank holiday weekend. I managed to use 29 kWh during the trial and got paid £6.43. This is so good I'm now addicted. I'm now on agile - see if I can beat that this weekend.

 

[Mark_T]

Just to give a sense of how it looks from the Agile perspective...

 

[kevuwk]

Started this thread last bank holiday weekend. I managed to use 29 kWh during the trial and got paid £6.43. This is so good I'm now addicted. I'm now on agile - see if I can beat that this weekend.

They were paying 22p/kWh?

 

[NewbieT]

Surprised me too.

 

[Mark_T]

Surprised me too.View attachment 543672

That number looks wrong, but they are saying in essence that they will have charged you for the electricity you used so they are crediting you for that charge + an extra £0.02 per unit, or about £0.58.

Not quite sure how you can be paying £0.20 per kWh though on an Octopus tariff?

 

[NewbieT]

I averaged about 10.8p inc VAT plus the 2p. Yep dunno & fingers crossed.

 

[NewbieT]

5am tomorrow looking very promising.

Need to calculate the x2.2 add on the VAT 5% etc

https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/Market-data1/GB/Auction-prices/UK/Hourly/?view=table

 

[Adopado]

(I just posted this in the other Octopus thread but it looks appropriate here ..)

Received an email from Octopus offering to pay me for using electricity this Sunday ... that's very nice of them ... it's somewhat counterintuitive to find that you can "do them a favour" by using power! I've signed up for the 5am to 7am slot when they'll pay 5p a kWh for electricity used. A lower rate is of 2p per kWh is available for 2pm to 4pm. (you choose one slot or the other) I don't think you can take advantage unless you receive the invitation directly.

 

[Epico]

I went for the 2 til 4 slot as I think we can make more use of that with cooking, hoovering etc...that and the car for 2 hours...I'm not getting up at 5am to hoover or do some batch cooking

 

[Russinating]

Well, everything's on in my house! Car plugged in from 50%, wash load on, tumble on (for clothes that need tumbling anyway... NHS uniforms), working from my gaming PC. Will see how much I help...

 

[Adopado]

Will see how much I help...

Quite hard in 2 hours ... I might use enough to earn £1 !

 

[Russinating]

Quite hard in 2 hours ... I might use enough to earn £1 !

My paid-for period was/is 1.30-4.00pm today, so a bit longer. Enough to get my M3 from 50-80 anyway.

 

[Durzel]

I left it too late to start charging my car, was in a meeting at work and forgot about it until 3pm. Oh well, should be able to get to 70% and save myself ~25p

Need to get myself acclimatised to this “paid to use electricity” bizarro world.

 

[Russinating]

I left it too late to start charging my car, was in a meeting at work and forgot about it until 3pm. Oh well, should be able to get to 70% and save myself ~25p

Need to get myself acclimatised to this “paid to use electricity” bizarro world.

Yeah, exactly, it's still pennies, so nothing worth crying about. Just makes the vs diesel cost stats even more impressive, though.

 

[Adopado]

Yeah, exactly, it's still pennies, so nothing worth crying about. Just makes the vs diesel cost stats even more impressive, though.

Yes, I should really add the amount I could have spent on charging the car as well as the money I receive ... maybe nearer £1.50!

 

[Cogarch]

Currently -11.30p/ kWh. I am as we speak charging our other electric car, have turned on the immersion heater, the dishwasher, the clothes drier and the (empty) oven.

Current consumption 9.7kW, rising to 12.55 kW while the kettle is on.

Have I forgotten anything? Perhaps I should open the fridge door...

 

[Durzel]

Any bar heaters knocking about? Does the oven have a pyrolytic function for cleaning? That will use a lot of power for an extended period of time.

Seems so strange to want to waste electricity.

 

[Cogarch]

Pyrolitic - good call!

I just think of it as using excess heat to help cool down some solar panels that are overheating...

Price signalling can’t be wrong..!

 

[Russinating]

Currently -11.30p/ kWh. I am as we speak charging our other electric car, have turned on the immersion heater, the dishwasher, the clothes drier and the (empty) oven.

Current consumption 9.7kW, rising to 12.55 kW while the kettle is on.

Have I forgotten anything? Perhaps I should open the fridge door...

Does your kettle really use 2.85kWh? 3 of them will draw more than your car!

Not saying mine doesn't btw, I know they draw a lot just usually for a short period.

We've done 3 washes and tumbles, charging the car from 15% and running the pyrolytic function on the oven. Got to a pathetic 6.3kW usage in an hour yesterday so wondering if I'll top it today.

Laundry basket is empty anyway.

Was funny driving back on the motorway past a load of turbines, knowing that in 15 mins they'd be recharging the car.

 

[NewbieT]

Does anyone know if Octopus will swap the bearing in your meter for free? Mine was probably smoking earlier and I think I’ll need a new one!

I don’t know how ethical this competition is? I got up to 13.3kW at one point. *Everything* on. Glad my cut-out is 80Amps and not 60Amps otherwise I’d be cutting it fine.

Consumption today 64kWh.