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masonic

Agile is looking marginally better tomorrow. It will be interesting to calculate my daily average for today. I think it will be some way above my average for April so far @ 11.6p, but I don't think it will be above the tracker rate.

bristolleedsfan

masonic said:

Agile is looking marginally better tomorrow. It will be interesting to calculate my daily average for today. I think it will be some way above my average for April so far @ 11.6p, but I don't think it will be above the tracker rate.

 

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Agile Tariff on Wed 14-04-2021

Average: 20.9p

Av Excl Peak: 19.0p

Cheapest 4hrs: 12.7p

Telegraph_Sam

Interesting times .. Are you able to make a meaningful comparison between Agile and Tracker - daily average or what  would make more sense, monthly?

niktheguru

Telegraph_Sam said:

Interesting times .. Are you able to make a meaningful comparison between Agile and Tracker - daily average or what  would make more sense, monthly?

That would entirely depend on when you use your energy, so not a fair comparison, as everyone's average will be different.

Umiamz

niktheguru said:

Telegraph_Sam said:

Interesting times .. Are you able to make a meaningful comparison between Agile and Tracker - daily average or what  would make more sense, monthly?

That would entirely depend on when you use your energy, so not a fair comparison, as everyone's average will be different.

Exactly. I'll be doing the bulk of my heavy usage tomorrow afternoon when it's close to 12p/kWh, which will keep the average down.

masonic

Telegraph_Sam said:

Interesting times .. Are you able to make a meaningful comparison between Agile and Tracker - daily average or what  would make more sense, monthly?

I don't have a month's worth of smart meter data yet, but the saving in April (to 11th) has been 0.5p/kWh on average. That's all been low-average prices. When prices spike, as they have now, I don't know how good or bad my usage profile will be compared to the Tracker price.

I'm grabbing all the data I can from the Octopus API, so I can run whatever comparisons I wish in the future, provided I can get the data for the tariffs I wish to compare. There's a basic comparison tool on the Guy Lipman website also.

bristolleedsfan

masonic said:

Telegraph_Sam said:

Interesting times .. Are you able to make a meaningful comparison between Agile and Tracker - daily average or what  would make more sense, monthly?

I don't have a month's worth of smart meter data yet, but the saving in April (to 11th) has been 0.5p/kWh on average. That's all been low-average prices. When prices spike, as they have now, I don't know how good or bad my usage profile will be compared to the Tracker price.

I'm grabbing all the data I can from the Octopus API, so I can run whatever comparisons I wish in the future, provided I can get the data for the tariffs I wish to compare. There's a basic comparison tool on the Guy Lipman website also.

Surely more productive to compare with Go tariff, Tracker tariff same rate 24 hours is mixture of those without smart meters, those who have no heavy usage to shift, relatively low/very low usage households

Telegraph_Sam

Umiamz said:

Exactly. I'll be doing the bulk of my heavy usage tomorrow afternoon when it's close to 12p/kWh, which will keep the average down.

I'm afraid that's lost me. Surely that will be when prices are highest, at least as from 4 pm?

masonic

bristolleedsfan said:

masonic said:

Telegraph_Sam said:

Interesting times .. Are you able to make a meaningful comparison between Agile and Tracker - daily average or what  would make more sense, monthly?

I don't have a month's worth of smart meter data yet, but the saving in April (to 11th) has been 0.5p/kWh on average. That's all been low-average prices. When prices spike, as they have now, I don't know how good or bad my usage profile will be compared to the Tracker price.

I'm grabbing all the data I can from the Octopus API, so I can run whatever comparisons I wish in the future, provided I can get the data for the tariffs I wish to compare. There's a basic comparison tool on the Guy Lipman website also.

Surely more productive to compare with Go Tariff, Tracker tariff is mixture of those without smart meters, those who have no heavy usage to shift, relatively low/very low usage households

I wouldn't be happy with the Go rate as that's 1.5p per unit more expensive than a cheap fix elsewhere. If over the next few months I find I couldn't have realised a saving vs Go on either Agile or the Tracker, I'd be looking to leave Octopus (so far it is looking good). I'll need to review that in the context of what happens to wider energy prices.

bristolleedsfan

masonic said:

bristolleedsfan said:

masonic said:

Telegraph_Sam said:

Interesting times .. Are you able to make a meaningful comparison between Agile and Tracker - daily average or what  would make more sense, monthly?

I don't have a month's worth of smart meter data yet, but the saving in April (to 11th) has been 0.5p/kWh on average. That's all been low-average prices. When prices spike, as they have now, I don't know how good or bad my usage profile will be compared to the Tracker price.

I'm grabbing all the data I can from the Octopus API, so I can run whatever comparisons I wish in the future, provided I can get the data for the tariffs I wish to compare. There's a basic comparison tool on the Guy Lipman website also.

Surely more productive to compare with Go Tariff, Tracker tariff is mixture of those without smart meters, those who have no heavy usage to shift, relatively low/very low usage households

I wouldn't be happy with the Go rate as that's 1.5p per unit more expensive than a cheap fix elsewhere. If over the next few months I find I couldn't have realised a saving vs Go on either Agile or the Tracker, I'd be looking to leave Octopus (so far it is looking good). I'll need to review that in the context of what happens to wider energy prices.

5p kwh rate for 4/5 hours is no use to you even though possibly slots from 2030 hours onwards  ??????