Octopus Agile

northernstar007

today and tomorrow is looking a bit steep but rough with the smooth, still got a wash done at about 13.5p kwh try and bring todays avg down a touch

Newbie_John

RavingMad said:

Based on the Emoncms forecast, the weekend should have been favourable. Had family round for Sunday dinner so most of the cooking was done during peak time too

Not looking forward to prices this week.  Anyone contemplating switching?

Similar questions were here last year, people switched because one month was bad (November) then those who stayed had a Dec, Feb, March full of negative/very low prices - there will be bad days, bad weeks, but yoyu need to look at ypur costs over longer period like 3 months really:
https://agileprices.co.uk/?tariff=AGILE-FLEX-22-11-25&fromdate=20231231

I told myself that I will switch when I hit 7 days in a row more expensive than flexible rate - had 2 days over the entire year.
Saying that, I've switched recently as I realised it took too much of my time to daily check and reset things   

EssexHebridean

 We got a wash through overnight when it was lower, and I’ve just pounced on a slightly cheaper half hour to get some cooking done - tea tonight will now just need 10 minutes on combi in the micro plus the time to boil some tatties so that works.  No sense in being on Agile if we’re going to panic as soon as prices go up a bit - as long as it sticks around where we would have been on the fix on average then I can deal with that. 

RavingMad

silverwhistle said:

RavingMad said:

My monthly avg is 15p too but that's skewed by 3 days of taking advantage of negative energy prices 

But that's the whole point! If you don't take advantage of lower prices it won't work!

Last month my average was 9.3, and this crept up to 10.25p last week. This week will obviously be worse, but you can only determine if it works for oneself over a longer period.

I've got solar and an EV, with the former taking the edge off during the day (currently 220w spare going in to the immersion) and the latter enabling me to take advantage of the price drops. Other people's situations will be different but at the moment it seems to be working for me. I sometimes forget how expensive SVR is compared with what I'm paying overall.

Doing all the chores during this period I get but in my situation I took advantage by using oil radiators and heating up the house when it wasn't necessary 

Quite happy to ride the highs for the time being and see if still works out on this rather than fixing.

teaselMay

Even without much load to move around my total this week, which has been relatively expensive, is a pound lower on Agile than flexible or the recent fixes (aug and oct), 35p of that is a lower standing charge but so long as the weeks don't end up costing consistently more than a fix it's worth it for me, I think it would need to be considerably more for a couple of months for me to change. The past month is still showing as £10 cheaper on Agile vs flexible or fix, with my total electricity bill at £37 a risk worth taking so far.

RavingMad

For those doing a wash overnight; does it stay in the washing machine until the morning?  If so, does it not have a smell if left damp overnight?

greenbee

I've done overnight washes for years (legacy of E7 as a child, and realising it's a great way to make the most of outside drying weather). It's find to stay in until morning - the only thing you will find is that if they wash is early in the night and you get up late, things like sheets may take a bit more ironing (assuming you do that!) than if you get them out straight away. Not that I ever remember to get them out straight away anyway... 

Newbie_John

RavingMad said:

For those doing a wash overnight; does it stay in the washing machine until the morning?  If so, does it not have a smell if left damp overnight?

Nope, not at all.
Same with dishwasher, I've seen people saying similar things - when I wake up in the morning they all nice and dry (and the dishwasher doesn't open itself).

Scot_39

RavingMad said:

For those doing a wash overnight; does it stay in the washing machine until the morning?  If so, does it not have a smell if left damp overnight?

If worried and machine has facility use delayed start or finish by program modes.

Others will gently tumble periodically to avoid worst of creases n night programs befoe empty etc but that costs money.

As others have said - a few hours shouldn't matter for already clean laundry.

teaselMay

If your machine is musty it might make it smell but the solution to that is to use a cheap overnight spell to do an empty or otherwise hot wash or machine clean cycle if it has one. In a non mildewy machine it should be fine. You can always use the programming to make it finish as late into any cheap spell as possible if you find there is a spell, but if there is clean the machine too