Octopus Outgoing Agile

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Why aren't more people on this export tariff especially considering current wholesale prices?

I've written a script to work out potential profit from using the half hourly outgoing rates against my assumed export, and it's already at 78p and we are only half way through the day, on a 4p/kwh SEG that would only be 20p so far today and we aren't even into the best paid hours.

Assuming theres still generation at 7pm, thats 81p/kwh, even if you generate a quarter of a kilowatt thats still a decent amount.

arty688

I guess its depends on how much you consume vs export I think most people have switched to GO as the costs of Agile incoming were so high.

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arty688 said:

I guess its depends on how much you consume vs export I think most people have switched to GO as the costs of Agile incoming were so high.

It my understanding that any of the other octopus tariffs allowed you to have agile outgoing? It's just the GO ones that they say you cant use it with.

QrizB

Spies said:

Why aren't more people on this export tariff especially considering current wholesale prices?

For most people with rooftop PV, the savings to be had on their import prices have until very recently outweighed the gains of OOA for export. There are a couple of threads on the subject. The exception would be if you've got a huge PV array and very low import.

Recent prices have been unusually high; when I looked at it 3 months ago, the long-term average OOA price was around 6.7p (link).

arty688

Spies said:

arty688 said:

I guess its depends on how much you consume vs export I think most people have switched to GO as the costs of Agile incoming were so high.

It my understanding that any of the other octopus tariffs allowed you to have agile outgoing? It's just the GO ones that they say you cant use it with.

I think you are right but you can only swop every 30 days I think ,not sure about switching the export side of things though . Swopping from Agile to Go has saved me about £1K this year and fixed would have been about £500 more

Spies

So today, with an assumed export of 12.31kwh, it would have netted £2.93 in SEG vs 49p at standard 4p/kwh.