Octopus Tracker

RobinofLocksley

This group on Tracker is also helpful https://www.facebook.com/groups/547066184149588/?ref=share_group_link

Telegraph_Sam

My imagination - is there not something similar on Twitter? Or some way of MSE Octopus people making contact?

masonic

They were tweeting alerts during the last round of sessions. Perhaps they will again. I hope so, as I don't use Meta stuff.

Telegraph_Sam

I am accustomed to downloading electricity consumption data in csv format from the website. But when I try to replicate the procedure with gas no data is downloaded. Does anyone else have the same problem? Or know the cause and cure?

la531983

Bit of a jump tomorrow with the low wind. 

MultiFuelBurner

yep anyone that followed the weekly solar and wind predictions should have heeded the notice to do everything Monday-Wednesday do as little Thursday and Friday and save it for Saturday and Sunday.

Pat38493

According to some other forums I’m reading it will be even worse than expected as there are 2 inter connectors with unplanned outages since yesterday and several nuclear reactors offline for refuelling.

la531983

Nuclear generation is only 0.7GW less than it was this time last week, so I wouldnt be overly concerned. Energy from France only marginally down too.

pfpf

Pat38493 said:

it will be even worse than expected

what will be worse than what? 21p for Electric tomorrow is still great.

Slinky

Apologies in advance for stupid questions. I've all the gear and little idea.

We are with Octopus for gas and electric. I fixed the gas, and also the electric export, but we are on the standard variable electric for import. Earlier this year we installed a 4kw solar system, with 9.6kw of batteries. We are low users, only using 6-9 kw per day. On sunny days we are still getting enough solar to cover 75% of our daily usage, but of course these are few and far between.  I was reluctant to move to Agile, as we tend to find if we do have energy in the batteries, at this time of year it tends to run out during the 4-7pm peak rate.  I think I'm right that the Tracker rates vary by day, but not by daypart? We don't currently charge the batteries from the grid (need to investigate how to do this).

Would the Tracker look like a good option for us do you think?