Octopus Tracker

bristolleedsfan

Griffindog said:

It would be a lovely Christmas present if we could have cheap electricity on Christmas Day. I use both of my ovens plus a slow cooker, microwave and Ninja for hours that day. I didn’t have smart meters last year therefore my usage was averaged so it didn’t all get allocated to the one day. I can’t get away with that this year.

2019 or 2020 Octopus offered smart meter customers a few hours free electricity on Christmas Day.(something like that) alternative to paid advertising, word gets spread on forums, social media and free media outlet advertising.

mmmmikey

Hmmm - we've now got to the stage where the forecast amount of wind generated energy exceeds forecast supply briefly very early on Friday morning. Which means cheap prices almost certainly - but how cheap?

https://emoncms.org/ukgrid

pfpf

pfpf said:

G3.99p & E13.01p tomorrow. can i fix at these now please? might we get another sub E10p day next week? possible.

i called it

MultiFuelBurner

It's lining up to be a very cheap week but if they do have to fit in another DFS test events perhaps tomorrow is the best candidate? Or maybe Tuesday?

Telegraph_Sam

I am exploring various data sources.
Gas Tracker and My Smart Energy agree that for the Nov 22 v 1 tariff for North East England
my electric is 13.41 p today moving to 16.09 tomorrow
my gas is 3.98 p today moving to 3.99 tomorrow
Are these prices incl VAT and directly comparable with those mentioned in this correspondence? And ignore standing charges?
n3rgy defeats all my attempts to sign up and log in.
Glowmarkt Bright and Glow: Are these apps for mobiles only (not desktops) and do they cover just consumption volumes and not prices?
Energy Stats UK seems to offer just 30 and 365 day graphs but no numbers. Also a confusing graph showing all the tariffs.
Octopus themselves show prices and limited graphics.
Have I forgotten anyone???
What is the experience of other readers from using these sites?

calleyw

I have been waiting between 3 and four weeks to go on to the tracker.  I will be phoning tomorrow as I got a reply to me asking when I was going on to the tracking still no date and the person replying was not sure how to back date the charges as I asked before the start of december to go on the tracker.  Can't work out why its taking so long.  Took 2 days to move from one old supplier to the octopus.  But internal changes seem to take for ever!!!!

masonic

calleyw said:

I have been waiting between 3 and four weeks to go on to the tracker.  I will be phoning tomorrow as I got a reply to me asking when I was going on to the tracking still no date and the person replying was not sure how to back date the charges as I asked before the start of december to go on the tracker.  Can't work out why its taking so long.  Took 2 days to move from one old supplier to the octopus.  But internal changes seem to take for ever!!!!

The usual reasons to have to wait before you can go onto Tracker are that you don't yet have smart meters, or your meter profile is Economy 7 and needs to be changed to single rate. Another possible reason is that the Change of Supplier reading has not yet been agreed with the old supplier, so billing cannot commence. It would be worth trying to get a reason from them as there have been no other reports of such long delays.

Qyburn

mmmmikey said:

Hmmm - we've now got to the stage where the forecast amount of wind generated energy exceeds forecast supply briefly very early on Friday morning. Which means cheap prices almost certainly - but how cheap?

https://emoncms.org/ukgrid

Maybe it means prices back up a little as they have to pay wind farms not to generate. Actually come to think, when the wholesale 1/2 hourly price goes negative, where does the money come from to pay people to use the surplus? Power stations and wind farms etc are still being paid to generate, so "someone" is forking out both to the supplier and to the consumers. I'm guessing that in some way we all end up paying.

masonic

Qyburn said:

mmmmikey said:

Hmmm - we've now got to the stage where the forecast amount of wind generated energy exceeds forecast supply briefly very early on Friday morning. Which means cheap prices almost certainly - but how cheap?

https://emoncms.org/ukgrid

Maybe it means prices back up a little as they have to pay wind farms not to generate. Actually come to think, when the wholesale 1/2 hourly price goes negative, where does the money come from to pay people to use the surplus? Power stations and wind farms etc are still being paid to generate, so "someone" is forking out both to the supplier and to the consumers. I'm guessing that in some way we all end up paying.

Are they being paid for the excess though? How could this be if the wholesale price goes negative?

MultiFuelBurner

Too much power could mean free energy sessions from Octopus?