Octopus Tracker

Archerychick

debitcardmayhem said:

Oh well, I have reversed my stance re gas tracker, I have reverted to tracker. No doubt I will be proven wrong but currently feel gas may have peaked, let’s see.

Yeah I’ve been watching it decline, think I’ll stay on the 16m fix for now because my actual gas usage is likely to be very very small until next winter now. 

QrizB

debitcardmayhem said:

Oh well, I have reversed my stance re gas tracker, I have reverted to tracker. No doubt I will be proven wrong but currently feel gas may have peaked, let’s see.

I stuck with it. There were a couple of days of 7p/kWh but (even with the change in formula from Dec 23 to Dec 24) it's back below 5.5p now.

KTF

Archerychick said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Oh well, I have reversed my stance re gas tracker, I have reverted to tracker. No doubt I will be proven wrong but currently feel gas may have peaked, let’s see.

Yeah I’ve been watching it decline, think I’ll stay on the 16m fix for now because my actual gas usage is likely to be very very small until next winter now. 

I am also staying on the 12M fix (6.25p per unit) for the time being as the gas use is going to be a lot lower now.

I have still been keeping an eye on the price though and (for my usage) so far in March the fix has cost me £22.21 in gas (excluding standing charge) where has I been on Tracker from March 1 it would have cost me £20.83.

With such a small difference I will stay on the Fix unless the gas price drastically drops.

FreeBear

TroubledTarts said:

Peace is coming and then everyone can buy cheap Russian gas and the price will plummet until the next world catastrophe.

I'm in agreement with Phil Goff, and fear that we are repeating the mistakes of 1938. As for switching back to Tracker for gas, as the weather warms up, my consumption will drop to ~15kWh per month. So savings are going to amount to pennies.

The_Groat_Counter

TroubledTarts said:

Peace is coming and then everyone can buy cheap Russian gas and the price will plummet until the next world catastrophe. [...]

I have to say that I think this is precisely the wrong reading of current events. Peace isn't coming in Ukraine, however much Trump might want to force Ukraine to effectively surrender. However regardless of what transpires there, we - meaning Europe (or at least the majority of it) - are not about to get cozy with Putin's Russia and start buying their cheap gas again. We're effectively in an undeclared cold/hybrid war with Russia right now, and the sanctions against Russia are not about to be lifted.

Furthermore, I wouldn't necessarily rely on the increased supply of LNG from the US to Europe to continue unabated either.

Blimey, I'm almost talking myself into signing up for a pricey two year fix...

(P.S. As @TroubledTarts has since made clear, their comment that prompted my reply was sarcasm!)

Doc_N

FreeBear said:

TroubledTarts said:

Peace is coming and then everyone can buy cheap Russian gas and the price will plummet until the next world catastrophe.

I'm in agreement with Phil Goff, and fear that we are repeating the mistakes of 1938. As for switching back to Tracker for gas, as the weather warms up, my consumption will drop to ~15kWh per month. So savings are going to amount to pennies.

Unfortunately, the uneducated clowns creating the break up of NATO are either being controlled by Russia, for whatever reason, or are too stupid to know what happened in 1938 and too gullible to understand that they’re being played. If there is cheap gas again we’ll all pay a very high price for it.

QrizB

The_Groat_Counter said:

Blimey, I'm almost talking myself into signing up for a pricey two year fix...

Canned beans, soft loo roll and a long-term energy fix, the weapons of the next Cold War

TroubledTarts

RavingMad said:

Tracker is almost 1p cheaper per kWh than my Feb fix for gas. Almost tempted to jump back on

@TroubledTarts have you been switching between Tracker as you have with Agile? Cos they were hot on the 9 month rule I believe 

Agile and cosy. 

TroubledTarts

The_Groat_Counter said:

TroubledTarts said:

Peace is coming and then everyone can buy cheap Russian gas and the price will plummet until the next world catastrophe. [...]

I have to say that I think this is precisely the wrong reading of current events. Peace isn't coming in Ukraine, however much Trump might want to force Ukraine to effectively surrender. However regardless of what transpires there, we - meaning Europe (or at least the majority of it) - are not about to get cozy with Putin's Russia and start buying their cheap gas again. We're effectively in an undeclared cold/hybrid war with Russia right now, and the sanctions against Russia are not about to be lifted.

Furthermore, I wouldn't necessarily rely on the increased supply of LNG from the US to Europe to continue unabated either.

Blimey, I'm almost talking myself into signing up for a pricey two year fix...

Sarcasm doesn't travel well on a forum. Should of ended my original TIC

bob2302

After leaving tracker how are people monitoring its rates?