Octopus Agile tariff showing Plunge (negative) pricing 1st Oct

QrizB

Phlik said:

Surely the not going to pay me to use electricity?

Surely they are!

If you've got an immersion heater you rarely use, tonight will be the time to try it out.

Negative prices seem to be from about 0230 to 0530, so if you don't have a timer and aren't going clubbing you might need to set an alarm clock

Phlik

QrizB said:

Phlik said:

Surely the not going to pay me to use electricity?

Surely they are!

If you've got an immersion heater you rarely use, tonight will be the time to try it out.

Negative prices seem to be from about 0230 to 0530, so if you don't have a timer and aren't going clubbing you might need to set an alarm clock

Winner!

Oil filled radiator on a smart plug and timer on the washing machine.

Fag packet maths shows I should be roughly 20p better off after using approx 7kWh of electricity between 1 and 6 am

Alnat1

In fact, run a club from your house from 2.30-5.30. Get everyone round after the pub chucks them out, bring your own beer, all lights blazing, cook up some snacks after 2.30, a few sausage rolls and chip butties, £10 each, quids in   

Chrysalis

What a wonderful 24 hours of news for those of us on Agile.

Thank you so much @Mstty for guiding some of us here.

CanNeverThinkOfAUsername

It's very cold here in Yorkshire atm, as a treat i can leave the plug in heater on in the early hours thanks to Agile

QrizB

CanNeverThinkOfAUsername said:

It's very cold here in Yorkshire atm, as a treat i can leave the plug in heater on in the early hours thanks to Agile

Plug a big enough heater in and Octopus will owe you, not vice-versa

(Although at a max of 8p/kWh it would need to be *really* big. A megawatt or so might do it, you'd save up to £80 an hour.)

Phlik

QrizB said:

CanNeverThinkOfAUsername said:

It's very cold here in Yorkshire atm, as a treat i can leave the plug in heater on in the early hours thanks to Agile

Plug a big enough heater in and Octopus will owe you, not vice-versa

(Although at a max of 8p/kWh it would need to be *really* big. A megawatt or so might do it, you'd save up to £80 an hour.)

But just think how warm you'd be

Alnat1

Anyone have an oven with a timer?  Set it on high heat with the door open, will be lovely and warm downstair when you get up tomorrow morning.

Magnitio

Alnat1 said:

Anyone have an oven with a timer?  Set it on high heat with the door open, will be lovely and warm downstair when you get up tomorrow morning.

Or be waken up by the fire alarm. I do wonder what risks people take.

ed1su

Chrysalis said:

What a wonderful 24 hours of news for those of us on Agile.

Thank you so much @Mstty for guiding some of us here.

I double that thanking @Mstty for guiding me as well