We'd like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum... Read More »
We're aware that some users are experiencing technical issues which the team are working to resolve. See the Community Noticeboard for more info. Thank you for your patience.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
Octopus Tracker
Options
Comments
-
Are they being paid for the excess though? How could this be if the wholesale price goes negative?
The comment I've seen about negative pricing is that it costs less to pay people to consume, than it would cost to pay generators to shut down or reduce output.0 -
Qyburn said:Are they being paid for the excess though? How could this be if the wholesale price goes negative?
The comment I've seen about negative pricing is that it costs less to pay people to consume, than it would cost to pay generators to shut down or reduce output.Presumably some of their output is paid for on forward supply contracts, but excess output is to sold to suppliers by auction, and the price of those auctions can go negative, resulting in Agile and Tracker prices going negative. If some generation is stood down, the affected generators would need to be compensated for lost sales that are met by the excesses of other market participants. Those other market participants would sell the replacement energy to the grid for less than the original forward contract price, with the difference going some way to funding the compensation. That's my understanding anyway.For gas, I don't think the wholesale price goes negative (as generators can control supply), but if it did, distributors and suppliers could buy it up and store it without paying customers to use it.0 -
Tomorrow is looking very good for a weekday, and likely not the cheapest pricing we'll see this week...3
-
masonic said: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!!!!
Nope none of those things. Never had economy 7, I had smarts meters in june, I swapped early november. Had my final bill and refund from my previous supplier over a month ago. Already had my november/december bill based on my smart meter readings
Hope for everything and expect nothing!!!
Good enough is almost always good enough -Prof Barry Schwartz
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try -Seth Godin0 -
calleyw said:masonic said: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!!!!
Nope none of those things. Never had economy 7, I had smarts meters in june, I swapped early november. Had my final bill and refund from my previous supplier over a month ago. Already had my november/december bill based on my smart meter readings
0 -
masonic said:calleyw said:masonic said: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!!!!
Nope none of those things. Never had economy 7, I had smarts meters in june, I swapped early november. Had my final bill and refund from my previous supplier over a month ago. Already had my november/december bill based on my smart meter readings
Hope for everything and expect nothing!!!
Good enough is almost always good enough -Prof Barry Schwartz
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try -Seth Godin0 -
Gas up 9% in trading today, so something is afoot.1
-
maybe the Red Sea situation. knee jerk or longer term? lets see.0
-
pfpf said:maybe the Red Sea situation. knee jerk or longer term? lets see.
That's what I said as soon as I heard about BP.
Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £229.82, Octopoints £4.27, Topcashback £290.85, Tesco Clubcard challenges £60, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £10.
Total £915.94/£2025 45.2%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Intt £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus referral reward £50, Octopoints £70.46, Topcashback £112.03, Shopmium referral £3, Iceland bonus £4, Ipsos survey £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply

Categories
- All Categories
- 350.9K Banking & Borrowing
- 253.1K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 453.5K Spending & Discounts
- 243.9K Work, Benefits & Business
- 598.8K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 176.9K Life & Family
- 257.2K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.6K Read-Only Boards