Octopus Agile

wrf12345

In between concreting and riding my motorcycle managed to do some cooking at 6p kw/h, that is the problem with good sun and hence solar, lots of other things beckon...

Slinky

I did a little bit of forced export this morning then charged our batteries when it was 6-8p now exporting at 15p.

MP1995

Slinky said:

I did a little bit of forced export this morning then charged our batteries when it was 6-8p now exporting at 15p.

So about 5p after charging and discharge losses per kwh exported. What's your minimum to bother doing it?

Slinky

I wouldn't bother for much over 8p

MP1995

Slinky said:

I wouldn't bother for much over 8p

Friday early morning is looking promising 

Newbie_John

Many negative slots between 0 - 16

Slinky

Will do some exporting and recharging overnight when it's negative

Newbie_John

Tomato Energy has an Agile tarriff now (sounds like a copy of Octopus):

Tomato Agile

Tomato Agile, our smart tariff directly tied to wholesale prices, offers access to half-hourly energy rates. When wholesale prices decrease, so do your bills. Perfect for those who can adjust their energy usage to off-peak times such as EV drivers.

Key Benefits

Cheaper rates when wholesale prices fall

You can get paid to use electricity

Cheaper wholesale prices often mean the greenest energy.

TheElectricCow

Newbie_John said:

Tomato Energy has an Agile tarriff now (sounds like a copy of Octopus):

Tomato Agile

Tomato Agile, our smart tariff directly tied to wholesale prices, offers access to half-hourly energy rates. When wholesale prices decrease, so do your bills. Perfect for those who can adjust their energy usage to off-peak times such as EV drivers.

Key Benefits

Cheaper rates when wholesale prices fall

You can get paid to use electricity

Cheaper wholesale prices often mean the greenest energy.

Saw someone mention this in another thread not too long ago - I can’t seem to find any current easily accessible published tomato prices (already enough to put me off), but based on the one screenshot shared in that thread for that particular day it seemed to be very poor value compared to Octopus. 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6535071/tomato-energy
Over 30p/kWh most of the day with a low of around 23p, compared to Octopus where it was a mostly sub 15p day with a low of under 2p/kWh. 

Of course you can’t judge the entire tariff on that one day, but it certainly doesn’t paint a good picture for them when the average price over the day was around the same level as the Octo-Agile peak rates.

That said, it is always good to see more suppliers getting on board with the more innovative tariffs, and the possibility of some  healthy competition against the Octo-tariffs in future is always welcome.

MP1995

Well the dip was nice, tried explaining it to a neighbour. They just glazed over lol