Octopus Tracker

Spoonie_Turtle

knight123 said:

ashe said:

Robgmun said:

ashe said:

knight123 said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Let's just say all on tracker must be damn happy with their decision

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Switched a week and a half ago and we've already saved about £20. We're all electric so heating the flat is generally a nightmare.

Little bit worried in case it shoots up, but considering the amount of wind we get during winter, and that the price cap is likely to rise, seems like it's a safe bet that it'll generally stay under it?

I'd suggest taking it as a long term view even if it does shoot up. If you look at the 365 day history it spiked last December; then went below cap and stayed there since. I joined Feb this year and have saved over £700, and have referred over 60 people so it's been an amazing ride 😂 but even without all those, the £700 savings alone has been very welcome 

That was a once-in-a-lifetime event. It's been below the tracker for years before that happened. A combo of the Ukraine war, Putin playing with the gas taps and the general economy after a pandemic (itself a once in a lifetime event) caused a perfect storm. 

We're now much more savvy than to leave the gas supply up to Russia, we're more energy independent due to wind farms and solar and our economy is slowly getting better. If we see a bump, it'll be a very mild one just above the current SVR and go back down sooner. But I'll hope it'll never go above the red line

It was also when we had snow here 

Just looking at past electricity wholesale electricity and gas prices (can't post links as I'm a new member) and it's clear that in the years before the recent massive increases, January and February, the coldest months, did not particularly spike. Electricity in particular has been cheaper on average than some of the summer months.

Obviously it's anyone's guess what will happen, but a massive increase is anything but guaranteed

Which site(s) are you using?  You can post the names even if you can't post the links

knight123

Spoonie_Turtle said:

knight123 said:

ashe said:

Robgmun said:

ashe said:

knight123 said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Let's just say all on tracker must be damn happy with their decision

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Switched a week and a half ago and we've already saved about £20. We're all electric so heating the flat is generally a nightmare.

Little bit worried in case it shoots up, but considering the amount of wind we get during winter, and that the price cap is likely to rise, seems like it's a safe bet that it'll generally stay under it?

I'd suggest taking it as a long term view even if it does shoot up. If you look at the 365 day history it spiked last December; then went below cap and stayed there since. I joined Feb this year and have saved over £700, and have referred over 60 people so it's been an amazing ride 😂 but even without all those, the £700 savings alone has been very welcome 

That was a once-in-a-lifetime event. It's been below the tracker for years before that happened. A combo of the Ukraine war, Putin playing with the gas taps and the general economy after a pandemic (itself a once in a lifetime event) caused a perfect storm. 

We're now much more savvy than to leave the gas supply up to Russia, we're more energy independent due to wind farms and solar and our economy is slowly getting better. If we see a bump, it'll be a very mild one just above the current SVR and go back down sooner. But I'll hope it'll never go above the red line

It was also when we had snow here 

Just looking at past electricity wholesale electricity and gas prices (can't post links as I'm a new member) and it's clear that in the years before the recent massive increases, January and February, the coldest months, did not particularly spike. Electricity in particular has been cheaper on average than some of the summer months.

Obviously it's anyone's guess what will happen, but a massive increase is anything but guaranteed

Which site(s) are you using?  You can post the names even if you can't post the links

Statista for Gas - Page is called 'Monthly average gas prices based on day-ahead baseload contracts in Great Britain from October 2015 to May 2023'

Nordpool for electricity - N2EX Day Ahead Auction Prices

Boohoo

masonic said:

Boohoo said:

I am/was on Octopus tracker for my electric since March 2023.
3 weeks ago i changed my gas over to Octopus and was on the Flexible Octopus rate.
This morning i was checking my account and i am now on the Flexible Octopus tariff of 27.93 and 42.01 daily charge.
Last night i was on what i have been for months.
Is this a glitch or has moving my gas over to them put me on a default tariff?

You can check the contracts on your account via this web service: https://energy.guylipman.com/sm/admin?source=octopus

(when set up go to Octopus Account Details)

It sounds to me like there was a erroneous change made as a result of bringing gas over and they've already corrected the issue.

Thanks for the reply.

I am not sure what you mean by they have corrected the error.

Electric was on Tracker tariff and gas is on Flexible tariff/

As of today i am on Flexible tariff for both.

Both of my IHD's(one for electric Octopus and EDF for gas before i switched) show the same tariff Flexible as my online account.

masonic

Boohoo said:

masonic said:

Boohoo said:

I am/was on Octopus tracker for my electric since March 2023.
3 weeks ago i changed my gas over to Octopus and was on the Flexible Octopus rate.
This morning i was checking my account and i am now on the Flexible Octopus tariff of 27.93 and 42.01 daily charge.
Last night i was on what i have been for months.
Is this a glitch or has moving my gas over to them put me on a default tariff?

You can check the contracts on your account via this web service: https://energy.guylipman.com/sm/admin?source=octopus

(when set up go to Octopus Account Details)

It sounds to me like there was a erroneous change made as a result of bringing gas over and they've already corrected the issue.

Thanks for the reply.
I am not sure what you mean by they have corrected the error.
Electric was on Tracker tariff and gas is on Flexible tariff/
As of today i am on Flexible tariff for both.
Both of my IHD's(one for electric Octopus and EDF for gas before i switched) show the same tariff Flexible as my online account.

I misread and thought you were saying it was initially wrong and then went back to being what you have been on for months.

la531983

So I've had my readings smoothed again to my detriment, £2.50 extra on a bill that should have been £72.50.

Doesnt sound much but if they did that to everyone... Not a single half hour reading missed on the app either so it's a bit annoying. Suppose they threw me an extra tenner a few months ago so that's still paying for things like this. 

MultiFuelBurner

la531983 said:

So I've had my readings smoothed again to my detriment, £2.50 extra on a bill that should have been £72.50.

Doesnt sound much but if they did that to everyone... Not a single half hour reading missed on the app either so it's a bit annoying. Suppose they threw me an extra tenner a few months ago so that's still paying for things like this. 

Gas or electricity or both?

Gas does seem to be the one that gets smoothed most and normally it works out better.

MultiFuelBurner

Some cheap days coming up.save up that washing and tumble drying

la531983

MultiFuelBurner said:

la531983 said:

So I've had my readings smoothed again to my detriment, £2.50 extra on a bill that should have been £72.50.

Doesnt sound much but if they did that to everyone... Not a single half hour reading missed on the app either so it's a bit annoying. Suppose they threw me an extra tenner a few months ago so that's still paying for things like this. 

Gas or electricity or both?

Gas does seem to be the one that gets smoothed most and normally it works out better.

Just electric here. We were away for a week when it was the cheapest week of the month, which has caused the issue. Background usage became double figure usage.

MultiFuelBurner

la531983 said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

la531983 said:

So I've had my readings smoothed again to my detriment, £2.50 extra on a bill that should have been £72.50.

Doesnt sound much but if they did that to everyone... Not a single half hour reading missed on the app either so it's a bit annoying. Suppose they threw me an extra tenner a few months ago so that's still paying for things like this. 

Gas or electricity or both?

Gas does seem to be the one that gets smoothed most and normally it works out better.

Just electric here. We were away for a week when it was the cheapest week of the month, which has caused the issue. Background usage became double figure usage.

They will recover it if you ask and rebill 

la531983

MultiFuelBurner said:

la531983 said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

la531983 said:

So I've had my readings smoothed again to my detriment, £2.50 extra on a bill that should have been £72.50.

Doesnt sound much but if they did that to everyone... Not a single half hour reading missed on the app either so it's a bit annoying. Suppose they threw me an extra tenner a few months ago so that's still paying for things like this. 

Gas or electricity or both?

Gas does seem to be the one that gets smoothed most and normally it works out better.

Just electric here. We were away for a week when it was the cheapest week of the month, which has caused the issue. Background usage became double figure usage.

They will recover it if you ask and rebill 

They gave me a free tenner a few months back when it was to my detriment to 20p, so this time prepared to let them off. I wont next time though.