New Octopus tariff for solar and battery users - Octopus Flux

powerful_Rogue

Ron-ski said:

@powerful_Rogue Nice, what app are you using?

Still waiting on my export MPAN before I can get paid for export.

Thanks, I'm using Octopus Watch - Think it cost about £1.50. Great app though.

Unclefoobar

Ron-ski said:

@powerful_Rogue Nice, what app are you using?

Still waiting on my export MPAN before I can get paid for export.

Same here, can I ask how long you've been waiting? 10 days so far for me. 

Oh, and the Octopus Watch app is very good even on the non subscription version 

Ron-ski

Unclefoobar said:

Ron-ski said:

@powerful_Rogue Nice, what app are you using?

Still waiting on my export MPAN before I can get paid for export.

Same here, can I ask how long you've been waiting? 10 days so far for me. 

Oh, and the Octopus Watch app is very good even on the non subscription version 

I had an email on 22 March saying they were applying to the DNO for an export MPAN, and it can take up to 2 weeks.

greyteam1959

powerful_Rogue said:

Ron-ski said:

@powerful_Rogue Nice, what app are you using?

Still waiting on my export MPAN before I can get paid for export.

Thanks, I'm using Octopus Watch - Think it cost about £1.50. Great app though.

Cost £1.99.
Great little app.

Ron-ski

powerful_Rogue said:

Ron-ski said:

@powerful_Rogue Nice, what app are you using?

Still waiting on my export MPAN before I can get paid for export.

Thanks, I'm using Octopus Watch - Think it cost about £1.50. Great app though.

I've installed this, thanks. I also have the Bright App. The Bright App shows electric usage data from today and yesterday. Weirdly Octopus and Octopus watch doesn't. I also have holes in my gas data in both Octopus apps, with whole days missing, yet it is there in Bright.

This appears to be an Octopus problem, as Watch gets it's data from Octopus, Octopus and Bright get their data from the DCC, so to me something is wrong on the Octopus side of things.

Anybody else see this?

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Ron-ski said:

powerful_Rogue said:

Ron-ski said:

@powerful_Rogue Nice, what app are you using?

Still waiting on my export MPAN before I can get paid for export.

Thanks, I'm using Octopus Watch - Think it cost about £1.50. Great app though.

I've installed this, thanks. I also have the Bright App. The Bright App shows electric usage data from today and yesterday. Weirdly Octopus and Octopus watch doesn't. I also have holes in my gas data in both Octopus apps, with whole days missing, yet it is there in Bright.

This appears to be an Octopus problem, as Watch gets it's data from Octopus, Octopus and Bright get their data from the DCC, so to me something is wrong on the Octopus side of things.

Anybody else see this?

Different Adapter software and different data pull times. Octopus uses a third-party Adapter service provided by TMA. Bright uses an Adapter developed by its parent company Hildebrand.

As you say, Octopus Watch gets its data from your Octopus account via an API: it follows that if Octopus has failed to pull the data or a segment is corrupted, then Octopus Watch will also show missing data.

EcoScruples

Ok I'm going to take the plunge, come on, give me the good and the bad so far from anyone who uses it.

powerful_Rogue

EcoScruples said:

Ok I'm going to take the plunge, come on, give me the good and the bad so far from anyone who uses it.

No bad from me so far, this is a great end of March to possibly early October tariff.

I charge my batteries upto 100% every night so they usually start discharging very shortly after the sun comes up. Doesn't take long to clear the cost of the charge and the standing charge and start making me a profit. Since 4pm today i've been exporting 2kWh+ of excess solar at 38p per kWh. Looks like it's going to be the same all week with the predicted weather.

Alnat1

I moved to Flux when the clocks changed. Poor weather in the first few days, so I charged up to 100% 2-5am and it mostly kept us going all day, with little bits off the roof. If battery was ok around teatime, I exported down to 50% before 7pm.

Last few days, with more sun, I've not bothered with the overnight charge. Our small battery fills fast and then the system caps at 3.6kW so I've set the battery to fill at 10% then it allows us to generate a bit more for longer. Battery finally filled at 3pm today.

The discharge is now set 4-7pm down to 60% SOC but it won't happen until there's less than 3.6kW coming off the roof. That was 5pm today, will get later day by day. 24.5kWh generated so far today,17.3kWh of that has been exported. 

I guess bad will be when we get a run of cloudy days but it's simply a matter of deciding if/when/how much to fill up overnight.

If I charge from the grid, I'll lose a bit on the way in, and again on the way out, I think more than the difference between the rates, so I prefer to only charge overnight if the sun can't manage it. Might be different for other set-ups.

Magnitio

I switched a couple of weeks ago and it's definitely been an improvement given the recent rates on Agile. Have set battery to charge to 90% overnight and then excess solar exported during the day. Not having the battery charged fully means that any solar generation in excess of the inverter DC-AC limit is used to charge the battery so don't suffer any clipping.