Octopus Energy, including Intelligent and go

[Tony Hoyle]

The app literally says 'tariff switch started' and I'm clearly still on Go. No new functionality has appeared for scheduling etc.

45 minutes would be stretching the definition of 'lags a bit'.. You claimed 'immediately'. That's clearly not true.

It's a tariff switch, they take time.

 

[browellm]

OK mate.

 

[Simavon]

Our account page is still showing "meter readings available" after over a year and we're on our second Go fix.

 

[Tony Hoyle]

Is it supposed to say something different? It's always said that on my account page also.

 

[browellm]

You've got it all worked out.

 

[Simavon]

Is it supposed to say something different? It's always said that on my account page also.

It says:

Readings available​

We're receiving the half-hourly readings we need from your smart meter!
Won't be long now, we're just getting everything ready for your new tariff.

It should say something different than "we're just getting everything ready for your new tariff" after we've been on it for a year!

 

[Tony Hoyle]

Mine just says

Readings available​

We're receiving the half-hourly readings we need from your smart meter!

Not the second bit.. TBH as long as it works I don't care much.. at least I get bills now, took a year to get that sorted!

 

[spooksman]

You should be fine, as long as the PodPoint can act in dumb mode. We have a Model 3 and a Pug 208-e. I just charge the Pug when we need to in the IO chap period. IO will not be able to control the Pug, just the Tesla, but it's no real hassle.

When you say dumb mode, do you just mean with no schedule, so always on effectively?

 

[Lord Farquad]

Sadly the overnight Octopus Go rate has risen to 12p from 7.5p.

 

[phil4]

Oddly though intelligent's overnight is 10p. Prior to this change, they both had 7.5p overnight charges.

 

[Lord Farquad]

Annoyingly we have 2 BEVs in the house so we can’t use IO

 

[browellm]

Oddly though intelligent's overnight is 10p. Prior to this change, they both had 7.5p overnight charges.

Octopus' medium term goal is to phase out legacy Go/Go Faster tariffs and promote Intelligent with its smarter approach to balancing the grid, carbon intensity and cost base for Octopus.

 

[dcsh]

A shame, but given how the government support is working with ToU tariffs average rate maybe Octopus needed to increase rates to manage their costs.

It helps me justify giving up my cheap Go rates that would have expired at the start of December to switch to Intelligent back at the end of August.

 

[page3]

Annoyingly we have 2 BEVs in the house so we can’t use IO

You can. Or at least many do. Just switch it off when using 2nd car.

 

[SR-Plus]

Octopus' medium term goal is to phase out legacy Go/Go Faster tariffs and promote Intelligent with its smarter approach to balancing the grid, carbon intensity and cost base for Octopus

I can’t charge my house batteries using Intelligent. With Go Faster, the batteries are programmed to charge at set times……or am I reading it wrong, is the intelligent off peak always 23:30 to 05:30? And the car might charge outside this time if cheaper?

 

[Lord Farquad]

You can. Or at least many do. Just switch it off when using 2nd car.

Quick calculation for me shows £6 a month better off on IO. But even the latest GO is 19.5% better than the SVR (my usage pattern).

Do we think GO or IO are likely to increase again before Feb 2023 (when my current GO fix ends)?

 

[browellm]

I can’t charge my house batteries using Intelligent.

Sure you can.

Wiki - Everything you wanted to know about Intelligent Octopus But Were Afraid To Ask

Why write this post? A lot of people are starting to get interested in IO. I don't think Octopus do a very good job of spelling out the benefits in their website. They have some FAQs, but the same questions keep coming up over and over on the forums. What is it? In a nutshell, IO is a split...

teslamotorsclub.com

Depending on what home batteries you've got, you can use automation (Home Assistant, for example) to stop drain from your battery if you get off-peak slots outside of the fixed period.

 

[SR-Plus]

Sure you can.

Wiki - Everything you wanted to know about Intelligent Octopus But Were Afraid To Ask

Why write this post? A lot of people are starting to get interested in IO. I don't think Octopus do a very good job of spelling out the benefits in their website. They have some FAQs, but the same questions keep coming up over and over on the forums. What is it? In a nutshell, IO is a split...

teslamotorsclub.com

Depending on what home batteries you've got, you can use automation (Home Assistant, for example) to stop drain from your battery if you get off-peak slots outside of the fixed period.

I have a Sofar inverter and Pylontech US3000 batteries

 

[browellm]

I have a Sofar inverter and Pylontech US3000 batteries

Not one I'm personally familar with but if you can locally control your inverter with something like HA or Node Red there are various scripts knocking about integrating with the IO slots allocated to your account.

This one is what I use with my GivEnergy battery

GitHub - liamjvs/intelligent-octopus-scheduler: Python script to output your Intelligent Octopus timeslots.

Python script to output your Intelligent Octopus timeslots. - liamjvs/intelligent-octopus-scheduler

github.com

 

[spooksman]

You can. Or at least many do. Just switch it off when using 2nd car.

With a massive hike to my Go charges incoming at the end of November, I'm looking at switching to IO. Is switching it off for the second EV hard/complex? I guess you just have to remember... 10p for 6 hours is way better than 12.5p for 4 hours!

Having read most of the threads on here about IO, some people seem to have varying results/missed charges and extra battery drain - is that still the case?

Lastly, I believe the switch over is instant when the test charge completes - so I guess switching just before my bargain rate finishes makes sense...