Octopus Tracker

PennineAcute

18.66p today.  19.14p tomorrow which will be my highest to date.   

bristolleedsfan

Gas continuing upwards direction even on a weekend.  

Gas - Today (22/09/2023)

5.06p

Gas - Tomorrow

5.22p

Spoonie_Turtle

Can anyone confirm that Octopus Watch app gives correct costs for Tracker?  (Retrospectively is fine, it's just for keeping a monthly spreadsheet.)  Found out yesterday that the Octopus app itself says monthly cost information is an estimate and excluding standing charge, and Bright uses the unit rate of the day the smart meter was installed (as the IHD does).

Qyburn

PennineAcute said:

18.66p today.  19.14p tomorrow which will be my highest to date.   

When did you join? I had up to 28p in February, and in December before I joined it was up to 80p. That's Northern Scotland. Overall it's probably worked out about 60% of SVT during my time, but that might not be the case over the coming Winter.

PennineAcute

A couple of months ago I joined, so only recently.

la531983

bristolleedsfan said:

Gas continuing upwards direction even on a weekend.  

Gas - Today (22/09/2023)

5.06p

Gas - Tomorrow

5.22p

Nothing unusual about the price of gas changing from a Friday to a Saturday, gas is traded on a Friday. 
It isn't, however, traded on a Saturday or a Sunday. 

Gas wholesale price at a month high. 

la531983

PennineAcute said:

A couple of months ago I joined, so only recently.

There was a day not too long ago, maybe a month back, where the electric price was in the 20s. If I had my laptop open I would double check.

Edit - checked my bills, was two days, 23rd and 24th August. Same will have applied for you as I am in the cheapest region.

This was at the time gas was a couple of pennies higher on the wholesale markets than now, 22nd August was the peak (117) and went rapidly down in the following days. Now going back up (currently 112):

bristolleedsfan

la531983 said:

bristolleedsfan said:

Gas continuing upwards direction even on a weekend.  

Gas - Today (22/09/2023)

5.06p

Gas - Tomorrow

5.22p

Nothing unusual about the price of gas changing from a Friday to a Saturday, gas is traded on a Friday. 
It isn't, however, traded on a Saturday or a Sunday. 

Gas wholesale price at a month high. 

I did not say or imply anything unusual about the price of gas changing from a Friday to a Saturday,( I first went on Tracker tariff early 2020) weekends/bank holidays tend to be cheaper than weekdays due to less demand. (before you say it, yes this weekend might turn out to be cheaper than weekdays next week)

MultiFuelBurner

Price fever lol

In all seriousness what are people's plan B and plan C

As said before once the average price hits 23p kWh on tracker that's when we switch to Cosy Octopus as that's what we envisage our average price on that tariff to be. Then when the winter is over probably Agile. So that's the plan so far.

Just to confirm we have a spreadsheet from the moment we joined tracker so know our average kWh price and until that keep going up from 22p on its way to 23p we will pull the trigger with the potential 2 week lead time.

masonic

MultiFuelBurner said:

In all seriousness what are people's plan B and plan C

I think my plan B would be to drop down to Flexible if things got really bad and the outlook was for a prolonged period above the price cap. I don't envisage that happening, but if it did, I'd probably save more by minimising my usage than load-shifting on any of the currently available smart tariffs, as most days I spend no more than 2-4 hours up and about at home. Might go full on hertslad if I can bear it, but I find those thermal base layers quite uncomfortable.