New Octopus tariff for solar and battery users - Octopus Flux

Mikeyboy01443

Ron-ski said:

@scubajoe Thats some impressive export, most I've managed in a day is -£10.373, which was -33.21 kWh, about 18 kWh exported in the peak time, 21 kWh imported off peak.

How did you export so much peak?? Did you drain the battery

Ron-ski

8kW inverter and 29 kWh of battery, I run it down to 45% SOC, and any excess solar is also exported.

scubajoe

I do have battery storage but it's set to maximum self consumption. No export at all from the batteries....yet!

JKenH

Mikeyboy01443 said:

Mine does not show flux like yours does, it just says fixed and nothing in the other blob...
My account does show I'm on flux import and export, wonder why is not showing here?

I had this for over a month after I was confirmed as being on Flux Export, which itself was a month after I went onto Flux Import. I was told there was some problem with getting the export figures from my smart meter and they would get their smart meter experts to look into it. A week later (after chasing) the previous 2 days export figures (net figures) appeared on the app and later that day another 3 weeks of data appeared. I am still though missing data from 24 April to 4 May.

Edit: sorry I didn’t look closely enough at your post. I just saw the single “Fixed” and didn’t notice you were getting credited with export. 

On my iPhone app I see “fixed” “fixed” but on my iPad “Flux” “Flux”.

pensionpawn

So far (still generating 640Ws lol) 44 generated, 35 exported, only 5 during peak as we cooked tea (0.6 import). So £7.79 net electric plus £6.96 generation FiT. No battery.

Jonboy1889

Mikeyboy01443 said:

Mine does not show flux like yours does, it just says fixed and nothing in the other blob...
My account does show I'm on flux import and export, wonder why is not showing here?

What app is this?

JKenH

Jonboy1889 said:

Mikeyboy01443 said:

Mine does not show flux like yours does, it just says fixed and nothing in the other blob...
My account does show I'm on flux import and export, wonder why is not showing here?

What app is this?

Octopus Watch.

Ron-ski

scubajoe said:

I do have battery storage but it's set to maximum self consumption. No export at all from the batteries....yet!

Depending how much battery and inverter power you have it can give your exports quite a boost. I charge off peak, it usually ends up at around 80% SOC by 5am.

JKenH

I thought I would just put this on as an example of EV charging on Octopus Flux. My son visited us yesterday and on arrival at around 11am plugged his car into my Zappi. The bulk of the charging was completed before 4pm but it was about 5pm before the car was fully charged.

Below is a comparison of the day’s cost compared to the previous day when we had similar PV generation 40.25kWh yesterday compared to 39.48 kWh on Friday. The house consumption was similar both days. The cost of charging  the car worked out at 26.5p/kWh (additional £8.20 cost /31.6KWh part of which was lost export and part import). The Zappi indicated that 54% of the charge came from PV and 46% from the grid.

pensionpawn

Once on Flux it's difficult not to see daytime "house demand" of any type as a "cost" through lost export. Of course, we shouldn't let this influence how we conduct our lives and if we want to cook tea at tea time, we will / should. Of course during GMT, when there is no spare to offset input, that may need a second look!