Octopus Agile

EssexHebridean

wrf12345 said:

Mostly Agile is still cheaper than std tariff, in my case as a very low user I want to keep the s/c which was fixed for twelve months back in February so cheaper than other Octopus tariffs, I could make small savings going to Tomato but not really worth the hassle at the moment, by the time the twelve months runs out the s/c will probably have gone up again, and like gas (having deducted the loss of the winter fuel allowance from my spend) won't be viable, especially if council tax goes up (which would have to be deducted from the electric spend rather than go to jail). Only willing to pay the current electric bill because I stopped paying the TV licence fee so overall fixed costs have remained the same, just.

Have you done the benefits checker to be sure you are getting anything you qualify for? If your income is so low that you are having to go without heating and now consider ceasing using energy at all it seems likely that you would be a candidate for various help. The benefits board has some very knowledgeable folk who would be pleased to help you look into it. 

teaselMay

Octopus themselves also offer help, waiving standing charge for several months for example. I started looking into it for someone else but it needed your budget entering and so I stopped because it was on my account not theirs, but there is help available from different places - also discretionary payments from the council.

Spies

I moved to IOG last night, so this is my first full day, will be interesting to see what savings over Agile I've managed as I've made good use of the 7p rate

wrf12345

"Have you done the benefits checker to be sure you are getting anything you qualify for? If your income is so low that you are having to go without heating and now consider ceasing using energy at all it seems likely that you would be a candidate for various help. The benefits board has some very knowledgeable folk who would be pleased to help you look into it. "

Nothing to do with my income, all to do with refusing to be ripped off by cartel-like companies...

pritchah

Spies said:

I moved to IOG last night, so this is my first full day, will be interesting to see what savings over Agile I've managed as I've made good use of the 7p rate

What is IOG?

EssexHebridean

wrf12345 said:

"Have you done the benefits checker to be sure you are getting anything you qualify for? If your income is so low that you are having to go without heating and now consider ceasing using energy at all it seems likely that you would be a candidate for various help. The benefits board has some very knowledgeable folk who would be pleased to help you look into it. "

Nothing to do with my income, all to do with refusing to be ripped off by cartel-like companies...

Oh OK, that’s your call to make, your wording made it sound as though you were struggling though, and I didn’t want to stand by and say nothing if that was the position (as it is sadly for a lot of people who genuinely can’t afford to pay their priority bills).

pritchah said:

Spies said:

I moved to IOG last night, so this is my first full day, will be interesting to see what savings over Agile I've managed as I've made good use of the 7p rate

What is IOG?

Intelligent Octopus Go I think - an EV tariff. 

Spies

pritchah said:

Spies said:

I moved to IOG last night, so this is my first full day, will be interesting to see what savings over Agile I've managed as I've made good use of the 7p rate

What is IOG?

As the other comment said, intelligent octopus go. 

I get 7p/kWh 11.30pm until 5.30am then if I plug my car in at 8am and request 20% charge I get another 1.5hrs at 7p/kWh 

Quite useful of you have the right charger/car as the rate applies to the whole house 

matt_drummer

Spies said:

pritchah said:

Spies said:

I moved to IOG last night, so this is my first full day, will be interesting to see what savings over Agile I've managed as I've made good use of the 7p rate

What is IOG?

As the other comment said, intelligent octopus go. 

I get 7p/kWh 11.30pm until 5.30am then if I plug my car in at 8am and request 20% charge I get another 1.5hrs at 7p/kWh 

Quite useful of you have the right charger/car as the rate applies to the whole house 

I moved to IOG this week too.

I don't understand, why do you get another 1.5 hours at 7p just for charging your car in at 8am?

Is it the time or something else?

Spies

matt_drummer said:

Spies said:

pritchah said:

Spies said:

I moved to IOG last night, so this is my first full day, will be interesting to see what savings over Agile I've managed as I've made good use of the 7p rate

What is IOG?

As the other comment said, intelligent octopus go. 

I get 7p/kWh 11.30pm until 5.30am then if I plug my car in at 8am and request 20% charge I get another 1.5hrs at 7p/kWh 

Quite useful of you have the right charger/car as the rate applies to the whole house 

I moved to IOG this week too.

I don't understand, why do you get another 1.5 hours at 7p just for charging your car in at 8am?

Is it the time or something else?

In the octopus app, you can set a ready by time of 11am and how much % charge you want, it will always allocate extra slots up to 11am

You can also set a ready by time of 4am and it will give you early afternoon slots.

The rate only applies if the car is actively charging though, if you can limit charge rate via the car, it will give you more slots to ensure you get the percentage you requested

Bendo

Tomorrow's prices arent fun.