Octopus Energy, including Intelligent and go

[ACarneiro]

Yes,

Agile prices went negative last night and zero the night before. I’m guessing due to the excessive wind we’ve been having. Anyone been looking at it?

Yes, the spot price of electricity early hours of this morning was around £-75/MWh, which was quite refreshing to see again.
Won’t last long and it seems we’re selling quite a chunk of our wind power to France.
Odd times indeed!

 

[MattG5]

I was looking at the prices yesterday and spotted that so added the Agile tariff to the octopus compare app. It says my average kwH cost for the past month would have been .1006p on agile, saving about £215 against the IO tariff. I did look at agile yesterday and they have stopped new sign-ups and with the cap being £1 per kwH it's quite a risk!

I'll be interested to see what the average kwH will be for today when the negative rates from this early morning come into the comparison.

 

[browellm]

I was looking at the prices yesterday and spotted that so added the Agile tariff to the octopus compare app. It says my average kwH cost for the past month would have been .1006p on agile, saving about £215 against the IO tariff. I did look at agile yesterday and they have stopped new sign-ups and with the cap being £1 per kwH it's quite a risk!

I'll be interested to see what the average kwH will be for today when the negative rates from this early morning come into the comparison.

Depending on your mileage and if you can't load shift with a battery, there are probably quite a few tariffs you would be better off on rather than IO.

 

[MattG5]

Depending on your mileage and if you can't load shift with a battery, there are probably quite a few tariffs you would be better off on rather than IO.

IO is doing okay for me at the moment, the average unit cost is .28p, so under the price cap. I've load-shifted some things, probably a few more things that could be done but an 850-litre coral reef in the house probably doesn't help!

 

[NewbieT]

Forecasts showing less generation on Monday due to less wind = possible Saving Session.

 

[m3gt2]

Ok so IO hadn’t controlled my charges for a few days now. If I disconnect the car from the Octopus account and re connect will I stay on the same tariff (7.5 off peak) or would I be put on the current tariff? Thanks

 

[Pink Duck]

Disconnect and re-connect will allow you to update what they know about your device.

It shouldn’t affect the billing tariff if you have a supported Octopus device for IO.

 

[Nd4me]

Ok so IO hadn’t controlled my charges for a few days now. If I disconnect the car from the Octopus account and re connect will I stay on the same tariff (7.5 off peak) or would I be put on the current tariff? Thanks

I did this to change my connected device from my car to my Ohme charger and the tariff was changed. I would suggest contacting customer services and procede from there.

 

[m3gt2]

I did this to change my connected device from my car to my Ohme charger and the tariff was changed. I would suggest contacting customer services and procede from there.

Thank you, I will do that, seems a safer bet!

 

[NewbieT]

A little experiment. For the last 10 week days I've moved my demand to be on-peak to maximise savings during a possible 4pm-7pm Savings Session (by increasing my baseline). The result is I doubled my average peak time usage over that time from 0.8kWh to 1.6kWh. Whist I could easily do this long term to 'save' maybe £15 over the year my carbon footprint would be ridiculous. I'd go from putting the washing machine on when there is excess electricity to peak time fossil fuel burning. I'm becoming more carbon conscious and this doesn't sit well. National Grid and Octopus definitely wouldn't want me to do it either.

 

[JaseW]

Yes,

Yes, the spot price of electricity early hours of this morning was around £-75/MWh, which was quite refreshing to see again.
Won’t last long and it seems we’re selling quite a chunk of our wind power to France.
Odd times indeed!

Where are you seeing that, any good links?

 

[ACarneiro]

Where are you seeing that, any good links?

Yes, I often go on the Drax Electric Insights page.

There is also the excellent Gridwatch for a bit more information.

 

[Ben_]

I did this to change my connected device from my car to my Ohme charger and the tariff was changed. I would suggest contacting customer services and procede from there.

Agree. I hit the ‘disconnect’ button in error, instead of the ‘reconnect’ button. The solution was to repeat the on-boarding journey as if I were never on IO. However, by calling customer services first they made sure I stayed on the original tariff and not the current one.

 

[JaseW]

Yes, I often go on the Drax Electric Insights page.

There is also the excellent Gridwatch for a bit more information.

Oh yeah Drax I know about, I didn’t think it showed what was being sold to other countries though. Or maybe that was just a news article

 

[MadManMark]

Oh yeah Drax I know about, I didn’t think it showed what was being sold to other countries though. Or maybe that was just a news article

National Grid: Live

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

grid.iamkate.com

 

[Skie]

Saving session tomorrow from 5pm to 6pm

 

[Pink Duck]

And the results are in! Who did best?

Mine: “So far you've earned 8,248 OctoPoints (or £10.31) over 1 Saving Session” and “You saved 98% in the last session”

(that’s with deliberately transferring usual household load to 13:00–16:00 on the 15th, per my earlier message)

17:00–17:30 = 0.047 kWh
17:30–18:00 = 0.060 kWh

 

[deeqs]

Only 70p for me. I didn’t game it though. Just turned off lights etc and halved my normal (low-ish) usage for the hour.

 

[BushFox]

Only 70p for me. I didn’t game it though. Just turned off lights etc and halved my normal (low-ish) usage for the hour.

Snap, usually still on batteries at this time so only the odd peak usage needing grid electric. Switched lights,computer etc off - 85p

 

[NewbieT]

18816 or

17:00-18:00 = 0.03kWh = 100% saving.

Most I’ve ever been paid to charge the car (3h leading upto the session). Excess profits will go to Cancer Research.

Still need to do the baseline calcs etc but laptop not to hand.